'How Racial P.C. corrupted the LA police Department'
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Posted on 04/09/2006 11:48:54 PM PDT by goldstategop
If you don't believe your federal government is actively working to destroy your way of life, to subvert common-sense standards, to further racial injustice and double-standards, to deny individual rights in favor of group rights, just read on and see what is happening right now in Virginia.
The city of Virginia Beach this week reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department – that's the federal agency headed by President Bush's pick of Alberto Gonzales – to lower the standards of math exams for local police recruits.
Why, you ask, would Washington be interfering in the setting of standards for the math examinations of local police officers in Virginia?
Great question. I wish more people were asking simple, logical, incisive questions of this kind. Why, indeed, is the federal government interfering in so many aspects of our lives?
The answer you will get from the Bush administration goes like this: In February, the Justice Department sent a letter to Virginia Beach stating that the police department had "engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination" against black and Hispanics. The only evidence cited were the results of a math exam given to all police recruits. It showed a wide gap between the passing rates for white applicants and the passing rates for blacks and Hispanics.
About 85 percent of white applicants passed the math test from 2002 to mid-2005, while only 59 percent of blacks and 66 percent of Hispanics did.
The Republican-led Justice Department demanded that Virginia Beach end this blatant discrimination and "provide sufficient remedial relief" to previous police applicants who suffered under this kind of oppression. While Washington did not specify how that "relief" should be provided, Virginia Beach got the message.
The city will now allow 124 applicants to be reconsidered – even though they previously failed the math test. The city is also giving those failures $160,000 because they can't add and subtract. Black math failures will be given $128,000 and Hispanic math failures will be given $32,000.
And, in the future, the city will eliminate the standard of a 70 percent passing grade. Under the new standards, if you want to call them that, an applicant must only score 70 percent on the reading and grammar test and score at least an average of at least 60 percent on all three parts of the exam.
Last month, by the way, the Chesapeake, Va., police department got a similar demand from Washington – also based on math standards for applicants. That dispute has not yet been resolved – meaning Chesapeake has not yet surrendered to the illogical, irrational, racist demands of the federal government to dumb down its police force.
You get the picture? If blacks and Hispanics can't do math, then math tests are racist. That's the conclusion of Alberto Gonzales, the man who likes to refer to himself as the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in the country.
If the federal government can do this to a local community, what's to prevent the federal government from forcing private employers from subverting their standards for employment? I wonder if Gonzales will next take a look at the National Basketball Association to determine why there is such a shortage of white men and no women whatsoever? Are the jumping and dunking standards too high? Are they preventing white men and women from gainful employment and seven-figure salaries?
This is absolutely mind-boggling.
It's too late for Virginia Beach to take a principled against this kind of insanity, but I hope other communities faced with these kinds of racist, discriminatory demands by the federal government tell the Justice Department where to go.
Maybe they should refer Gonzalez and Bush to the federal Department of Education, which obviously is shortchanging blacks and Hispanics when it comes to the teaching of math.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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Bush is great with tax cuts, the WOT, and judges. That's about it (and that ain't bad). We are going to have to be content with that.
RE: great with tax cuts, WOT, and judges--the judges SEEM pretty good--but what have they done for us to demonstrate it outright so far? We'll have a few test cases coming up soon that will make them show their stripes. I'm pleased with tax cuts, not so pleased with border enforcement which is a component of the WOT, and still unsure but optimistic about the judges (though happier than I expected to be after the Miers mess).
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Someone please tell me again the difference between Republicans and Democrats. I seem to have lost the distinction watching the Alice-in-Wonderland world called Washington D.C.
NWO was his daddy's order of the day. Since then, we have had an outright liar and his next cousin. At least the last, has tried to keep the wolves at bay. I and most I know, are almost fed up.
Lowering standards will make it easier for more thugs, scofflaws and scoundrels to enter the field, just as it has done in the House and Senate...
I am really surprised that this is the first time you have noticed that tests for employment have been dumbed-down for minorities. Its been happening for twenty years.
Not only that but after they are hired they dumb down their test scores for promotion.
The white man has been getting the shaft from dumbed down tests for many years, where have you been?
The "white" man is a second class citizen and subject to all sorts of "legal" discrimination.
Did you ever hear of an 8a set aside. If you have what the govt. defines as a small black or hispanic owned business you get the privilege of a sole source contract with the federal govt. Also most if not all states have the same or similar laws.
If you are "white" and make too much money, you will probably not get scholarships to college. But, if you are perceived as a racial minority, whatever that is, you will probably get heavy scholarships.
There are many racial preferences embedded in job hiring, job rating, and job firing all throughout America.
So don't be surprised at the preferential treatment.
The best hope for us now is that the Supreme Court will outlaw it. My guess is that there will be lots of violence to restore these rights, and many people will be harmed or worse. I ask myself, how could anyone get away with taking the rights of people away and not suffer the consequences?
So , can a DUI suspect ask a cop, " How many fingers am I holding up ?"
Does anybody still think Bush is a conservative?
They hired a black Superintendent of Police.
His solution, lower the requirement for two years of college for recruits.
He was willing to count life experience in lieu........
The insidious message was that minorities couldn't meet the standard.
Not a word of complaint from anyone, including our complicit media.
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This is called "Lowering the standards" Soon there will be NO STANDARDS, because ALL standards are racist...
What's to say that with a 60% passing in math that the 90% of whites pass and 65% blacks and 70% hispanics. Still a pattern of discrimination.
Stupid.
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The federal government has long since dumbed down the tests for federal employment. Why wouldn't they expect the states to do the same?
Have you been to a federal agency fiels office lately?
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