Posted on 02/21/2010 9:12:34 AM PST by lex33
Reporting from Washington - The controversy over racial bias, testing and firefighters that blew up at both the Supreme Court and the Senate last year returns Monday, this time as the justices decide whether blacks who were not hired in Chicago because of their test scores are due damages for years of lost wages. The potentially $100-million civil rights case comes before a high court that has already shown its skepticism toward such claims. Last year, the justices ruled for white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., who said they were victims of illegal racial discrimination when the city threw out the results of a promotion test. The whites had earned high scores and would have gotten nearly all the promotions. City officials dropped the test results because they feared being sued by blacks who were denied promotions. By contrast, the city of Chicago was sued for illegal discrimination by more than 6,000 African Americans who earned "qualified" scores on an entry-level test given by the Fire Department, but who lost out to mostly white applicants who had higher, "well qualified" scores. "This case is the flip side of Ricci," said Benna Solomon, deputy corporation counsel for Chicago, referring to the New Haven case. "It illustrates the tension that public employers face." The outcome of the Chicago case may well turn on whether the lawyers for the black applicants waited a few months too long to file their suit. It's likely to have a national impact, however, because most state and city agencies are required by law to use competitive tests for hiring. It began in 1995 when 26,000 applicants jammed into Chicago's United Center sports arena to take an entry-level, paper-and-pencil test for jobs in the Fire Department.
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NBA?
Why not the Federal Government? I hope this is the tip of a giant ice berg that sinks minority bias forever.
That was before we got the “Wise Latina.”
If they keep up with this crap I’m going to start believing minorities aren’t as smart as whitey. If the court sais it, it must be true.
I'm sure they're just as intelligent as whitey. They just don't know as much.
I would LOVE to see the test. It is pretty simple though-— higher scores trump lower scores. Duh.....
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