DOJ, Diversity, and Low Expectations
Recently released documents show that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to perpetuate a system of racial spoils and promote what George W. Bush called the “soft bigotry of low expectations.”
At its core, the American civil rights movement was a struggle to obtain equality before the law for all citizens. The intent of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to end racial discrimination in public accommodations (hotels, restaurants, theaters, etc.) and programs that receive federal funds.
Over the years, however, the movement evolved into a system in which our government sought to increase “minority representation” (typically blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians) in government jobs by discriminating against whites and non-preferred minorities (Asians). Equality before the law became an empty slogan.
For example, fire and police departments are under pressure to lower hiring and promoting standards because blacks disproportionately score lower on civil service exams. In March, the Department of Justice ordered the city of Dayton, Ohio, to lower passing rates on the written police recruitment exam.
The police department had used an internally created written exam to screen police applicants, and the fire department required candidates to have EMT-Basic and Firefighter I and II certifications at the time of application. Blacks scored lower on the exam and lacked these certifications at higher rates. The DOJ filed suit against the city and announced to the world that the standards were too high for minorities. According to the complaint, about 68 percent of whites and 29 percent of blacks passed the most recent exam. Blacks who passed scored lower than whites.
The DOJ ordered Dayton to submit new recruitment and testing plans, and the city hired consulting firm Fire & Police Selection, Inc., to develop a new exam. Judicial Watch, a nonprofit group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, obtained documents related to the suit and last week released several hundred pages that revealed how the DOJ pressured Dayton to drop standards.
According to released documents, the government apparently had no significant problems with the new plans. Unfortunately, blacks scored disproportionately lower on the new exam. Only when scores were calculated did the DOJ object. In February 2011, DOJ Senior Attorney Barbara Thawley wrote that the use of the written exam violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and suggested the city score the exam as pass/fail. She also raised objections to the written firefighter exam and said it seemed “very unlikely that an entry-level firefighter would have to do much writing.”
Very simple solution. Keep track of all those police officers and fire fighters who were passed under the DOJ’s threats and post them to Democrat heavy districts. I don’t mean the poor areas either, I mean the upper middle class and higher areas, the gated community and fancy condo districts. Inflict these subpar candidates on the people who most support this kind of nonsense and see how long it takes for them to start whining about it.
If a black folks don’t do well at a given thing in the public arena, it’s racism and that’s the end of the story. If black folks do well in something like the NBA, it’s meritocracy and a completely different mind set of reasoning is in play.
In other words race does matter except when it doesn’t: not an easy philosophy with which to build laws around.
The only people who are advocating by race are the people who are the biggest racists. Bewilderingly, they, who have actual names and faces, are not racists but people who do no such thing and don’t even have names or faces are racist.
These names are Jeremiah Wright, James Cone, Michael Eric Dyson, Dr. Boyce Watkins, Melissa Harris-Perry, Cornel West, Roland Martin, Jesse Jackson, Tavis Smiley, Al Sharpton, Ta-Nehisi Coates and many others. They are obsessed with race and are vicious racists. They are Joseph Goebbels in all but name.
They are of one mind on this issue and this mind was in full play in the Trinity Church Obama spent 20 years in before someone told him that membership in a de facto KKK might be “bad for the glass.”
The President of the United States believes in this ideology and so does Eric Holder and that is very clear. An intellectual KKK with a black face is completely acceptable in America today as these names teach at Tulane, Syracuse and Princeton. They work at MSNBC and CNN. They are interviewed on PBS and Democracy now on the most friendly terms.
In short: we’re screwed. Political correctness is George Orwell’s “1984″ in all ways possible and worse. Until we are ready to hand out moral judgment and jobs with the blind fold we’ve discarded, we will continue to be screwed.
I can only hope that history will look back on Obama and Holder and see them as they truly are: little Hitler’s without an army but who ignore law and common sense by skin tone. How American’s can be so utterly blind is a secret I will take to my grave.
“Over the years, however, the movement evolved into a system in which our government sought to increase “minority representation” (typically blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians) in government jobs by discriminating against whites and non-preferred minorities (Asians). Equality before the law became an empty slogan.”
What really is the difference between racism that benefits only certain minorities (Asians need not apply) and racism that harms certain minorities? Isn’t racism simply racism and should be avoided at all costs? Not to people like Obama and Holder. As was so aptly stated in George Orwell’s book “Animal Farm,” “Some animals are more equal than others.” Seems like the philosophy Obama and Holder live by.
When you look at Orwell’s writings, especially “1984″ and “Animal Farm”, you see the blueprint for the Obama regime. You see the concept of the straw man (Emmanuel Goldstein) except it was “George Bush”. You see the prejudice exhibited against those who do not “love” Big Brother. You see “newspeak” where the government changes the words to mean something else (“kinetic military response” for war, “man-caused disaster” for terrorism).
Remember that in both books, the bad guys won. If you think Holder and Obama will adhere to the rule of law, you are sadly mistaken.
Absolutely correct
“Over the years, however, the movement evolved into a system in which our government sought to increase “minority representation” (typically blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians) in government jobs by discriminating against whites and non-preferred minorities (Asians). Equality before the law became an empty slogan.”
What really is the difference between racism that benefits only certain minorities (Asians need not apply) and racism that harms certain minorities? Isn’t racism simply racism and should be avoided at all costs? Not to people like Obama and Holder. As was so aptly stated in George Orwell’s book “Animal Farm,” “Some animals are more equal than others.” Seems like the philosophy Obama and Holder live by.
Sorry, computer malfunction on my end. The above post listed as “Anonymous” was mine. These computers drive me nuts sometimes.
What I want to know is why society, both black and white, is so readily accepting of the idea of blacks being physically superior to whites. Have you EVER seen a white guy jump five feet over a basketball rim?!? Yet, the mental capacity of all all races is, for some reason, steadfastly believed to be totally equal. Just about the worst sin in the world is to even consider otherwise regardless of enough empirical evidence to choke a whale that blacks, on average, are a bit below whites and asians in mental acuity, regardless of the test parameters, social class, cultural outlook, economic level, and so forth.
Please, someone explain this. Is it racist to even consider a scientific possibility just because it involves intelligence?
SuffolkVA;
There is simply not the same stress on strong family structures and education in the American black community when compared to other groups. The achievement gap has cultural causes, not physiological ones. In fact, Black immigrants and their offspring are doing superbly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_education
Quote: “It should also be noted that the category of African immigrant population has one of highest educational attainment of any group in the United States, but they represent a small group within the larger African American population.”
http://diverseeducation.com/article/12419/
Quote: “A larger percentage of immigrant Blacks than native Blacks come from two-parent families…Within the Ivy League, immigrant-origin students made up 41 percent of Black freshmen”
http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/07/08/brblack-immigrants-work-harder/
Quote:” Like many other African-Americans, I have been noticing for years how the children of black immigrant families tend to be much better represented among high school honor-roll achievers than their native-American black counterparts are….”
http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/black-immigrant-model-minorities/
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/03/black_immigrants_an_invisible.html
Quote: “Black immigrants are the model minority”
an undergraduate at Harvard got suspended from college for the sin of asking the same question you asked, in an email. before she left she was of course shamed in front of the whole school by the verbal whipping she got from Harvard administrators.
so much for academic freedom!
More racist swill. Imagine my surprise.
America has oppressed people of color for 500 years. It’s time for justice.
Time for justice AND monetary reparations. Pigford’s reparations are a small first step.
Pigford’s only injustice is that so many of the lawyers reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in fees are white. Surely Holder and Obama can find a way to remedy that. After all, black lawyers are just as likely as–maybe even more likely than–white lawyers to contribute to Democrat campaigns.
When the word “reparations” is mentioned, as a student of history, I can’t help but wonder…
Polly, did you know that over 350,000 men in the Union army gave their lives so that the Confederacy would be defeated and the evil that was slavery would die?
Is that enough “reparations” for you?
Polly;
Would you require the descendants of those African slave sellers to pay reparations too?
Those are ‘interesting’ takes, Alice and Polly.
I grew up in NoCal and most of my friends were other than White and would differ with your fiction greatly. but hey..
I feel attention should be brought more so to the failed Black commitment to marry. 73% of Black children are born to single mothers. Resulting in poor/no disciplined children with little/no motivation to do well in school, relationships, job market, respect their fellow man etc.,
Check out the flash mobs in Chicago, Miami Beach, Philadelphia, NY etc., already occurring this Summer. You’ll see a common theme..
Consider the height of slavery in the United States, the late 19th Century, less than 1% of the country OWNED SLAVES. Whereas MANY freed slaves owned slaves themselves.
Guess who sold African slaves (throughout history there’s been Asian, European, Austral-Asian slaves who have been enslaved FAR LONGER than African slaves and guess what? ‘Reparations’ aren’t on the table or broached and these groups have MOVED ON and EXCEED expectations in most areas..) to the Spaniards, Portuguese? African Kings!
During the Black Plague, importing of Black slaves was near nil for obvious reasons. Though in most accounts ~1,000,000 White Europeans were kidnapped and sold as slaves by African Kings in Africa.
I HIGHLY recommend you go to what’s fictionally referred as the more, ‘Industrialized African countries’ and see with your own eyes modern slavery in most facets STILL in action. Though that would destroy your entire fictitious outlook/ideology.
Read up on the ‘Code of Hammurabi’ as well, created 3,000 plus years ago. It was used for ~40 years. Pssst, guess what? It was written by Babylonians (modern day Iraq) whereas MANY Africans still incorporate its verbage today.
As for ‘Pigford’ – that is being abused for TENS of BILLIONS more than suggested, Polly. But you’ll read and then believe what you ‘need’ to.
‘Reparations’, I believe that’s been implemented for decades. Here’s but a few.. proven failures of EEO/AA, multi-generational welfare recipients, section 8 housing, no money-down/low interest rate mortgages, Black only colleges/magazines, television stations, programs/ banks (and how well iare those being run, held accountable..?)/newspapers/ lowered hiring standards, the useless, racist and corruption-ridden CBC..
I always find it odd ‘Diversity’ officers or managers are always Black. In the Illiberal construct, ‘diversity’ means something very different. Again, ‘very interesting’.
Just recently D.C. is considering of ‘fixing’ the crack cocaine possession incarceration time to coincide more with crack powder type incarcerations. Why? For 93% of those incarcerated in D.C. are Black, silly..!! Just what D.C. needs, hundreds more drug addicts inundating the District. Hey, I’ll bet they’ll look for ‘honest work’.
Yep, I’m sure Dayton is going to be just fine, crime wise. Though considering crime, the state of Ohio in 2009 ‘boasted’ in having 6 cities in Yahoo! Top 20 Crime Cities in the U.S.
I live West of D.C. where ‘diversity’ is reaching our area as well! Yep, I see more grocery carts abandoned at bus stops, empty fields. Graffiti finding its way from the city center parking garages to our neighborhoods. Soiled diapers left in parking lots, sidewalks. A homeless shelter is located RIGHT NEXT to the library where children, women frequent. As well as homeless people living in tents, somewhat covered by foliage by I-66 and nearby Target store. The police are ‘aware of the situation’. Who knew ‘diversity’ could be interpreted like this?
Why just the other day a Robek’s smoothie store employee, still wearing her employee’s shirt and hat was walking in front of me towards her bus stop whereas she dropped her Robek’s smoothie. Instead of picking it up and throwing it away ~100 feet from her stop, she’d left it. Hey, that’s great advertisement for both the company’s hiring practices and example by this employee!
I instead picked it up, passed her up and threw it away in the refuse receptacle at the station. She chuckled to herself mumbling, ‘if he wanna throw my shit away..’. I won’t tell you the race for you’ll more than likely use the fictional/knee-jerk, ‘racist’ comment.
Viva la nonsense, err, mediocrity, uhh, no accountability.. no that’s not it. Oh, Viva la ‘diversity’.
Outstanding Paul!!! BTW I’m black and agree with you. We need to move on. And for Polly, how would reparations be paid? What percentage of black does one have to be to receive reparations? Not every black is 100% black. The great Messiah (Obama) himself is half white. Does he get anything? Who pays? Some slaves holders were black. Do they pay? Oh, I forgot, THEY’RE DEAD. We remain “behind” because certain groups know you won’t do the research and will just repeat the same old typical “we are oppressed by the man. It’s time for justice” crap. It’s okay to leave the plantation. Come discover what a lot of other blacks (yes, a lot) have.
America has oppressed people of color for 500 years. It’s time for justice.
LOL!!! The good ol’ USA didn’t exist 500 years ago, moron! Maybe you should read up on your history…
doesn’t matter, I can’t read anyway
Just curious, “Alice”: are you transparent? Can people see through you – literally – like a window? If not, you are a Person of Color too, even if you, like me, are “white”. Actually, I’m more of a pinky-beige if you look at paint chips….
Alice, you need to check the history books again.
Until we declared our independence from England in 1776, America was a British colony and the people were British subjects. Technically, England allowed slavery to exist here from 1492 until 1776.
Slavery existed in the USA from 1776 until 1861 (about 85 years). If you want reparations, demand them from England which allowed slavery for about 284 years.
I have no idea where you got “500 years” from (unless you include American Indians which did allow slavery within their tribes).
Requirements for the Presidency have been dumbed down, why not everything else?
How are the affirmative action cops and firemen being accepted by those who actually have to compete and bring something to the job? What effect does the integration of the stupid and incompetent have on force cohesion? Do the competent and the incompetent operate as an effective unit?
Giving taxpayer guaranteed loans to those unqualified-for-a loan is the cause of our current housing crisis. Give unqualified African Americans a stake in America was the high-minded idea that corrupted Fannie Mae.
Affirmative action is a cancer. America is becoming a socialist society because our elites have despaired of any possibility that African Americans can prosper in a merit based capitalist environment. Low expectations indeed.
One of the funniest books I’ve read in years is the novel Incompetence, by Rob Grant. (Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompetence_%28novel%29). It is set in a few short decades in the future when human rights are very similar to what they are today with one small but critical addition: it is considered discriminatory to refuse to hire someone on the basis of their incompetence to do the job. Grant takes readers on a wild ride through a world where public and private employees do not need to be competent at their jobs. Much of the book is hilarious.
The only problem with the book is that it is too likely to be prophetic. In fact, there are already signs that we’re already living in that world today.
For instance, one scene involves the hero trying to buy a ticket on a flight but running into trouble when the clerk clearly has no idea how to determine if a seat on the flight is available or how to sell the ticket to the customer. The customer guides him using only common sense and no previous familiarity with the airline’s computer system. I had a comparable situation myself a few years back when the tax man called to complain that I hadn’t paid all of my installments for that year. I was sure that I had and, even though he was on the other end of a telephone looking at a computer screen with all my payment history and I was sitting in my house with no papers in front of me, I proceeded to help him figure out how to read his own screens to find the payment which they had misplaced.
There is something profoundly wrong if people are given jobs for which their only qualification is membership in a preferred ethnic group. It is equally wrong to lower standards simply to enable people in preferred ethnic groups to get those jobs if the standards are important for being able to do the job effectively.
For example, if a firefighter in the course of his or her duties routinely needs to carry a certain weight of equipment or injured civilians, lowering the standards below that level ENSURES that the person will FAIL to do their job adequately. Do you want to be trapped in a burning building and find that the firefighter who has come to rescue you can’t lift or drag you? Or can’t even carry the tools they need to the fire?
Henry, therein lies the irony: The same folks who decry “racism” actually advocate racism.
“Leveling the playing field” isn’t about “leveling” at all. It’s merely about discriminating on the basis of race/sex/ethnicity, i.e., tilting the playing field to favor those “protected classes” by discriminating against those not in a “protected class”.
How may generations of black Americans must pass before merit trumps pigment ?
It seems that the longer the current spoils system is in place, the stronger the message is to blacks …
“Let’s face facts, after all these years and all that money and all those programs, people with your pigment will never be able to compete with us on a level playing field. ”
Now that is what I call an insult.
It so sad all you can do is to laugh at, what is suppose to be our judicial system. The DOJ and Holder are a disgrace not only fort the rigged hiring and the laws they refuse to enforce. Arizona tries to protect it`s people and border with Mexico and the illegals. So Holder sues Arizona over a law police officer do what is common place any where else in America. On the other hand Holder does not prosecute mayors and governors that protect the illegals in sanctuary cities and states. We are no longer a nation of law so tell, the cops and judges to piss off! If yuou want to kill your baby obama, holder and kathleen are your people!!!