Posted on 01/21/2011 4:58:19 PM PST by jazusamo
Firefighters live to rescue, but political correctness is undermining this important mission in the Big Apple. Currently, 406 of 8,654 budgeted positions at the Firefighters Department of New York (FDNY) are unfilled because a federal judge and the Justice Department insist rescuing ability must bow to racial quotas.
On Dec. 15, the left-wing Village Voice described the plight of several black firefighter candidates who aced the FDNY entrance exam, only to be blocked from entering the Fire Academy because U.S. district Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis decided the test was too tough for some minority candidates to pass. Although more than 90 percent of blacks and Hispanics passed, the judge ruled the examination was discriminatory because a slightly higher percentage of white applicants did. Contrary to the ruling, these minority success rates are well above the 80 percent standard used by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to decide if a test has a racially "disparate impact."
Judge Garaufis wasn't impressed that New York City has spent more than $20 million since 1989 to recruit minority firefighters. He insists minorities be hired in near-exact proportion to the numbers who took the exam, which in turn must more closely mirror the races' respective percentages of the city's population. He therefore jettisoned the test results, leaving in limbo those many minorities who passed the exam.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I don’t want a white, a black, a woman, or a man. I want someone who can carry 180 lbs with ease if I’m unconcious from smoke inhalation.
The judge is racist!
That's what it's all about and it isn't easy. Both the judge and King are not only racists, they're idiots.
Don’t go to NYC then, cause there they are selected based on the color of their skin and not their character.
Denis Leary, as a NY firefighter in “Rescue Me”, sums it up nicely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iliNaspGVDg&feature=related
that was hysterical!
LOL! The sensitivity trainer got a lesson.
The article states that “black” firefighters aced the exam... werent they the white ones...
Several black firefighter candidates aced the exam but the whole list will be thrown out so they can’t be hired. They’ll have to go through the whole testing process again and if this “judge” and King doesn’t feel there’s enough minorities after the next testing process it’ll probably start all over again. Pathetic!
They'd be more honest if they just proclaimed that white guys won't be promoted, aren't welcome, and are invited to gather their boots and gear and get on down the road.
It be all about the melanometricity..
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