feh... this is why there are pictures on the cash registers in fast food joints
Posted on 04/23/2012 5:09:40 PM PDT by mandaladon
MIAMI (Reuters) - The Justice Department sued the city of Jacksonville, Florida, on Monday, claiming its use of written tests to determine promotions in the city's fire department discriminates against African-Americans.
The lawsuit followed a more than two-year investigation examining Jacksonville's record of promoting African-Americans for the ranks of lieutenant, captain, district chief and engineer dating back to 2004.
It came after a separate lawsuit filed last year by two dozen Jacksonville firefighters challenging the city's promotional process. In the lawsuit, the firefighters alleged union officials unfairly shared exam questions with white workers but not with black workers ahead of the test.
"This complaint should send a clear message to all public employers that employment practices that have the effect of excluding qualified candidates on account of race will not be tolerated," Thomas Perez, a U.S. assistant attorney general for civil rights, said in a statement.
A spokesman for the Jacksonville mayor's office declined to comment.
The complaint by the Justice Department alleges the exams are "not job related for the positions in question."
The complaint said use of the tests "has resulted in a disparate impact upon black candidates" because African-Americans pass the examinations at significantly lower rates than white candidates.
The Justice Department said black employees who do pass the tests rarely are promoted since their scores are generally lower than white workers.
"At best, these tests measure only a slice of what is necessary to be a supervisor, but they stand in the way of qualified African-Americans advancing in the fire department," the statement said.
The lawsuit also named the local firefighter's union, the Jacksonville Association of Firefighters Local 122, as a defendant since it negotiates the terms of promotion tests with the city.
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Readin’s fo’ rich folks.
I don't find that hard to believe at all.
We must coddle his aggrieved at the detriment of those at risk.
“The complaint said use of the tests “has resulted in a disparate impact upon black candidates” because African-Americans pass the examinations at significantly lower rates than white candidates.”
wow....just wow.
This makes it seem as though blacks are not intelligent enough to pass tests. Is this what those firefighters want?
Had an uncle in the Seattle Fire Department years ago who consistenly scored in the top five on all promotional tests (which were ALL about management, strategies and firefighting skills).
But, time after time, he was passed over for a less qualified minority/female applicant, who had usually scored somewhere in the 60th percentile. Sure made me feel safer knowing that people who could barely pass the exams were in charge if I ever had an emergency - NOT
Isn’t this kind of case what got the “wise Latina” in so much trouble? And didn’t the Supremes knock down her ruling 9-0?
Discrimination is discrimination folks - doesn’t matter which way it goes!
I am 100% sure that Benjamin Crump would also not pass these tests...unless the questions were in Ebonics!
A white or Asian can't get into any law School with a C average
LOL!
As always, I wonder how many of the white firefighters voted for the communist piece of sh** Ubama?
And how many will vote for him again?
You know, I might also have a case. I have been discriminated against and excluded from playing in the major leagues because I can’t hit or field as well as those who those who were given contracts.
Hmmmmm....
Does it discriminate Chinese Americans, Mexican Americans, Croatian Americans, Pakistani Americans, Arab Americans, Persian Americans?????
Alinsky's second chapter, called Of Means and Ends, craftily poses many difficult moral dilemmas, and his 'tenth rule of the ethics of means and ends' is: 'you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments.' He doesn't ignore traditional moral standards or dismiss them as unnecessary. He is much more devious; he teaches his followers that 'Moral rationalization is indispensable at all times of action whether to justify the selection or the use of ends or means.'...
"'The organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems,' and 'organizations must be based on many issues.' The organizer 'must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.'"
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“disparate impact” is the new Jim Crow claim for the Jesse Jagmo’s of the world.
anything test that isn’t passed 33-1/3 by whites,33-1/3 by blacks and 33-1/3 by hispanics... is RACIST!
Q. What is a stand-pipe?
A. Don’t know - never heard of it. (So, the question is obviously racist and SHALL NOT be on the firefighter’s test).
Q. For what is a fire hydrant used?
A. For us kids in the hood to open and run through on a
VERY HOT day. (Not a racist question - responder gets
10 points for this answer)
Q. How high is a 50 foot ladder?
A. Pretty damn high (responder gets 10 points - not racist)
absolutely what typifies what we are against: a govt who opposes success.
feh... this is why there are pictures on the cash registers in fast food joints
Yeah, let’s lower the bar and pump most of the water out of the bay, and lower all of the boats/ships, to make it “equal & fair”. More racist bullcrap to achieve “equal outcome” based on melanin.
Puke. Spit.
The US Dept of INJustice is a corrupt, criminal enterprise.
How is a written test discriminatory? Reading would seem to be a fundamental job skill. These guys are supposed to study training material, operators manuals for the gear they have, maybe read accounts of tactics in fighting fires, operations plans for coordinating with other companies for large fires, working with other agencies in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. I’m sorry, not everything in this life can be dumbed-down to a two minute MTV video. You have got to stay current in whatever field you are in. Chances are that means you’ve got to read.
I don’t know how Crump made it through law school. I bet the man can’t write a coherent paragraph!
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