Posted on 12/22/2002 11:49:26 PM PST by Doctor Raoul
Even as Senate Republicans struggled last week to defend the civil rights record of their leader and their party, a look inside Senate offices show there are few African-Americans in key, influential jobs.
Among the Senate staff members in executive positions, such as chief of staff or communications director, 94.5 percent are white, 3.1 percent are black and 2 percent are Hispanic, according to a 2001 survey by the Congressional Management Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization based in Washington.
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Funny how the liberal Democrats and talk show host today laughed at how Lott said, "I have hired black staffers." And he we find out that minorities are under represented the Senate staff, including the DEMOCRATS!.
BUt the liberal media will take a pass, just like KKK Byrd's Confederate playtime.
Yeah, domestics I'm sure. That's how limousine liberals work.
Funny how the liberal Democrats and talk show host today laughed at how Lott said, "I have hired black staffers." And he we find out that minorities are under represented the Senate staff, including the DEMOCRATS!.
But the liberal media will take a pass, just like KKK Byrd's Confederate playtime.
If there's an overall shortage, then the black Democrats must have lots of white staffers. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
In general, I'm not a believer in "lack of proportional representation" being an indicator of some kind of racist conspiracy, but I do think that here it does indicate something. We all have a tendency to hire people we know, people who aren't an unknown risk. Who travel in the circles we do. I a predominantly black city like DC, you'd thing the "proportional representation" would lead to more minorities. How did the sensitive Democrats become so insensitive?
Chalk it up to more weird DC, where the laws that pass for us, don't apply to them, because they write themselves out of it.
We all know that the only time the rules were applied there was after the '94 Republican victory.
I think I just came up with a sign.
Picture me outside the DNC with this:
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION STARTS HERE - MAYNARD JACKSON FOR DNC CHAIR!
Her answer: "He pays better than the Democrats pay."
ROTFLOL!!!!
As for the over representation in sports you need to think back to the glory days of the sweet science. It is one way for the poor to get money fast. The Jews, Irish and Italians dominated boxing at one time. Basketball and football is a tough way to make a living.
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