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Justice wants Dayton to provide relief ($$) to (unsuccessful) black job candidates
Dayton Daily News ^ | Tuesday, December 30, 2008 | Lucas Sullivan

Posted on 12/31/2008 6:04:16 AM PST by yankeedame

Justice wants Dayton to provide relief to black job candidates

DAYTON — The U.S. Department of Justice wants the city of Dayton to pay blacks who didn't qualify for jobs with the police and fire departments because they failed to meet requirements now challenged in a federal lawsuit.

In a settlement proposal dated Nov. 13, the Justice Department wants the city to distribute a lump sum of $450,000, hire and offer $18,900 in back pay to black applicants who:

• Took the police exam in 2006 but were delayed or denied employment because of their scores on an entrance exam the Justice Department says is discriminatory.

• Were denied employment or deterred from applying by the fire department in 2004 or later because they did not meet requirements now challenged by the Justice Department.

The proposal also states the city must develop new hiring procedures for firefighters and police officers....

(Excerpt) Read more at daytondailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
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1 posted on 12/31/2008 6:04:17 AM PST by yankeedame
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To: yankeedame

Do I hear “tip of the iceberg” ?


2 posted on 12/31/2008 6:07:55 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT 2006; now living north of Tampa Bay)
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To: yankeedame

George Bush’s Department of Justice


3 posted on 12/31/2008 6:11:59 AM PST by Rhino54
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To: yankeedame
...Were denied employment or deterred from applying by the fire department in 2004 or later because they did not meet requirements...

Hey, everyone knows that "requirements" are a racist code for keeping the brothers down! I wonder how those dumb honkies manage to meet them?

Great scam in the making, "deterred from applying".

"Yo, home, I never took the test 'cause it be the Man's setup to keep the bruthas down...I wanna be comensipated".

4 posted on 12/31/2008 6:22:24 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: yankeedame

This is one of those articles you read, and you just cannot bring yourself to believing that you are actually reading those words.


5 posted on 12/31/2008 6:24:12 AM PST by TheNewPundit
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To: yankeedame
They should be suing the school systems that failed to properly prepare these job candidates for life in the real world.
6 posted on 12/31/2008 6:25:07 AM PST by wolfpat (Revolt, and re-establish the Constitution as the law of the land!)
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To: JimRed

sorry... that doesn’t wash anymore.
We have a black man running the country now, there are no more excuses as to why a black man cannot succeed in this country... NO MORE!


7 posted on 12/31/2008 6:25:09 AM PST by TV Dinners (Hope is not a Strategy)
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To: TheNewPundit
This is one of those articles you read, and you just cannot bring yourself to believing that you are actually reading those words.

Same here.

Isn't all of this null and void now that we elected a black president?
8 posted on 12/31/2008 6:30:40 AM PST by TSgt (Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
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To: yankeedame
Did Zero carry Dayton?

If they are a dem area they should embrace the dem agenda. Pay up.

9 posted on 12/31/2008 6:31:30 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze
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To: MikeWUSAF

I was told that we had no more white guilt after his election. Maybe this is an older suit that’s being grandfathered in??


10 posted on 12/31/2008 6:39:44 AM PST by TheNewPundit
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To: Sgt_Schultze
Did Zero carry Dayton?

Yes, Dayton is Detroit South...

As of the census of 2000, there were 166,179 people, 67,409 households, and 37,614 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,979.3 people per square mile (1,150.3/km²). There were 77,321 housing units at an average density of 1,386.3/sq mi (535.2/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 53.40% White, 43.10% Black, 0.30% Native American, 0.65% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.70% from other races, and 1.83% from two or more races. 1.58% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.[11][citation needed]. The population of Dayton has been declining since the 1970s, as can be observed from portrayal of historical population data.

Households There were 67,409 households out of which 27.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 30.2% were married couples living together, 20.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 44.2% were non-families. 36.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.30 and the average family size was 3.04.
11 posted on 12/31/2008 6:49:04 AM PST by TSgt (Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
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To: yankeedame

Lowest Common Denominator - dumbing down America.


12 posted on 12/31/2008 7:02:10 AM PST by NonValueAdded (once you get to really know people, there are always better reasons than [race] for despising them.)
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To: yankeedame
This city has a black female mayor (with one round eye glass & one square eye glass in her glasses for a cool fashion statement), a black city manager ,a black majority city commission ; school board, has had several black police chiefs and school superintendants this proves that racism is very strong in the city!
The city has alot of crime and when the Dayton Daily News reports on it they say white 6'3" 210 pounds or young "teen shooter" or someone was robbed by a group of "teens" description unstated.The city majority ethnic group wants to play identity politics and feels that they should be entitled to bread and circuses while businesses and movitated people flee.
The upside is the city has a strong charter school movement but the machine Dems and their civil rights agitator allies want to shut down the only option that might help these kids trapped in government schools which is the real reason why the majority minority candidates can't pass a civil service test to begin with.
13 posted on 12/31/2008 7:08:35 AM PST by bonehead4freedom (We are reaping the judgment we have sown!)
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To: yankeedame
Sometime Judge Robert M. Duncan likes to appear as The Ghost of Christmas Past in Ohio.
/ Ohio racial politics history
14 posted on 12/31/2008 7:08:40 AM PST by Ghengis (Obama plays Guitar Hero and the sycophants claim that he is Hendrix!)
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To: yankeedame

denied employment because of their scores on an entrance exam the Justice Department says is discriminatory.

How in the world can this be discriminatory?

It is only discriminatory against the applicants that passed the test.


15 posted on 12/31/2008 7:44:05 AM PST by chainsaw
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To: yankeedame
I'm going to apply to be a brain surgeon. I'm not qualified, but it seems I might be able to score a few years of back pay with this technique. I wonder if I'll have to do this in "black face" to get the same consideration?
16 posted on 12/31/2008 7:53:11 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: wolfpat
"They should be suing the school systems that failed to properly prepare these job candidates for life in the real world."

No, they should be suing the brothers in their neighborhoods who beat down the black child that studied or got good grades, since such behavior is considered "acting white". In certain social groups, if you work hard and achieve you are acting white. If you slack and fail, then you have street cred.

It seems that it is more important for some people to remain in their situation with their rep intact than to work hard in school and be successful. Then we hear that it is the white man or the system or the competency test that is oppressing the black man. If he failed a competency test, was he not oppressed by his own behavior, his own failure to achieve, and the prevailing attitude in his own community?

This action suggests that the city is wrong in requiring potential employees to meet a minimum competency level. Do we want firefighters who can't operate complex machinery because they don't understand it? Will the next step be to require the city to purchase special versions of equipment geared toward those underachieving groups? Will the city then be sued because these special versions of equipment are not as effective? Will the city then be sued because those underachieving groups that were issued the special equipment feel discriminated against? Will the city then discard their complex equipment so as not to offend the underachievers? Will we be fighting fires with water buckets?

If we can require acceptance of firefighters that can't pass compentency tests, why not pilots and doctors? Why not engineers? Perhaps we can at least request some sort of rating system to identify the compentency level of the engineer who designed the bridge we are about to drive on. Or would that be discriminatory? If we hold no standards, we can set no expectations on outcomes.

Being politically correct is being intellectually dishonest for the sake of someone's feelings. I think we do a great disservice by ignoring the real issue here.
17 posted on 12/31/2008 8:33:50 AM PST by GulchBound (Who owns you?)
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