Boston Ordered to Hire White Firefighters

AP | 8/26/03

[arasina]

The city is exploring its options, officials said.

I guess that means finding a different judge with no regard for the law.

[putupon]

Boston Ordered to Hire White Firefighters

Hiring and/or promoting people by skin color? That's Racism w/ a capital R!

[max_rpf]

Liberals are insane. Even if AA was a good thing, if I was trapped in a burning building I would hope I had the best firemen coming to rescue me or my property. Just how does Racial Diversity make a better fire department?

[Husker24]

Read the friggin article.

[Fraulein]

From another thread:

Affirmative action-related fraud does have precedent. In 1990, the Boston Fire Department found that six of its firefighters had falsely claimed minority status on their applications, including white twin brothers Phillip and Paul Malone.

Initially, the brothers failed to qualify due to low test scores on their first test. On new applications, they claimed a great-grandmother was black. Though they earned the same test scores the second time around, they qualified for jobs under new minority outreach standards. After 10 years on the job, they were fired for fraud.

Race-Based Policies Raise Fraud Concerns

[JimVT]

Problem is......the City of Boston was probably operating under regulations fostered by some Federal liberal do-good agency.

The same type of Big Brothers who banned swiss knives on airplanes.

When was the last time a terrorist hijacked a plane with a swiss knife?

[Momaw Nadon]

Why can't a caucasian person claim to be an African-American on a job application?

All modern humans are descended from ancestors in Africa.

Therefore, aren't we all African-Americans?

[Puppage]

LET ME TELL YA SOMETHIN'

[BushCountry]

Just how does Racial Diversity make a better fire department?

****Warning this is a joke**** Improves language skills. This is an average conversation between firefighter after racial diversity.

Firefighter 1: Ferreal beeyotch, dat fire was off the chain.

Firefighter 2: Shoulda seen da bling-bling on dat sick holmes who got whacked by da smoke.

Firefighter 1: Nigga, thas was suttin'

[Go Gordon]

An NAACP lawyer questioned the decision. "If a return to normal means a return to the way the Boston Fire Department conducted its hiring prior to the mid-1970s, it will be a disaster for any applicants of color in this city," Toni Wolfman said.

No MR. NAACP. That was 30 years ago. The people doing the hiring back then are now retired and/or dead. Its now 2003, not the 1800's, not the mid-1970's. Get a clue. The race baiting and scare tactics will not get your "constituency" hired. Getting a good education and being the best qualified candidate for the job will. So instead of teaching your "constituency" to learn how to race bait their way through life and how to use white guilt to their advantage, maybe, just maybe, we'll see you hold the teacher's union accountable for the quality of education delivered to the inner cities (either that, or support vouchers).

[putupon]

Read the friggin article.

Read between the lines; it really takes away from a post when when you have to use a < /sarcasm>, IMHO.

[mtbopfuyn]

The city is exploring its options, officials said...An NAACP lawyer questioned the decision.

I question the need for the outdated and discriminatory NAACP.

[smith288]

The city is exploring its options, officials said.

Are you kidding me??? I dont want some white boy saving me, I want an under-qualified black guy to save me from this fire....be off with you cracka and get me a soul brutha.

[smith288]

Ahhh..how very Lazamataz of you...

[smith288]

Ahhh..how very Lazamataz of you...

Check out #3, Laz

[lafroste]

Therefore, aren't we all African-Americans?

No, no, no. Implicit in AA and PC in general is an unwritten sense of how long history is. For example if you are Black, it only counts if you were still in Africa at the commencement of the slave trade. Blacks who had already gone to the middle east or asia by then don't count.

Similarly, palestinian statehood only goes back to 1948 when (undesirable) Jordanians were forcably relocated to Palestine (a British colonial administrative district) in order to try to halt the reformation of Israel. The fact that all that area is historically Israel and existed as Israel for several thousand years before it was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD doesn't count.

It also doesn't count that white Afrikaaners, many whose families have lived in Africa for 200 - 300 years, aren't Africans either. In this country, native americans are obviously pure whereas I am not, since my anscestors have only lived on this continent since ~1580, obviously 500 years is not enough to make me a native-american.

So, if you are palestinian, history began 55 years ago, if you are caucasian of European descent, history became immutable about 10,000 years ago. If you are black history began about 400 years ago. And if you are Jewish, well, history does not apply to you at all.

[Savage Beast]

"The city's lawyers are reviewing it and considering its implications for future hiring."

It's easy, fellows. You don't discriminate.

I never have, even when it wasn't against the law.

[putupon]