White Applicants Blast FDNY After Being Denied Entry To Preparation Class

CBS Local ^ | 03/01/2012

[Verginius Rufus]

I watched a bit of a C-SPAN interview last night with Randall Kennedy, whose main concern is with racial issues. He comes across as soft-spoken and thoughtful but it was hard to see much difference between what he was saying and what someone like Al Sharpton says in an angrier way. Kennedy supprts affirmative action as a form of reparations, for example. Pretty much standard left-wing ideology, even if he has sometimes been attacked by more hard-line leftists.

A caller asked if black people could be guilty of racism and he said yes, listing some examples (all of them against other "protected groups"--no hint that he thought that a black person could be guilty of racism against a white person).

[Verginius Rufus]

Why did the “agitated applicant” think Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been on his side? Because of one sentence in the “I Have a Dream” speech? That’s like assuming Thomas Jefferson would have supported the Abolitionists because he wrote “All men are created equal.” Has anyone ever examined MLK’s statements between August 1963 and April 1968 to see what his attitude was to early efforts at affirmative action?

[AnTiw1]

" Another day in Obamaland.

Now why don’t you go pay your taxes? Your government is broke. :) "

obama has never and will never get one dime from me