Interestingly enough, the Supreme Court has actually ruled in favor of white firefighters and against what is often called reverse discrimination. For those of you who do not already know, reverse discrimination is nothing more than discrimination against white folks. It’s also known as affirmative action.
Firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut were given a test in order to determine who was worthy of promotions. As it turns out, all of the firefighters, with the exception of two Hispanics, that passed this test were white. But since it no longer logical to give promotions based on qualifications, at least some of the men were denied promotions in order to promote some black men instead. It was said the purpose of this decision was based on the apparent shortcomings of the test, but in all reality, it was to promote the cause of affirmative action.
To make a long story short, the firefighters who were denied their proper promotions sued. This is where the story is at today:
The Supreme Court today narrowly ruled in favor of white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., who said they were denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision by Judge Sonia Sotomayor and others that had come to play a large role in the consideration of her nomination for the high court.
The city had thrown out the results of a promotion test because no African Americans and only two Hispanics would have qualified for promotions. It said it feared a lawsuit from minorities under federal laws that said such “disparate impacts” on test results could be used to show discrimination.
In effect, the court was deciding when avoiding potential discrimination against one group amounted to actual discrimination against another.
The court’s conservative majority said in a 5 to 4 vote that is what happened in New Haven. (Washington Post)
This is interesting for three reasons. First, it is a good move on the part of the Court to stop this ridiculous reverse discrimination movement that has been ever-growing, even if in only this case. Second, there is a lot of speculation about Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor. Did he choose her because of her race and background? Well, if so, this ruling flies in the face of choosing people based on those reasons. Third, Sonia Sotomayor’s own ruling got overturned in this Supreme Court decision. Perhaps she was practicing a little reverse discrimination herself.
When it comes to racial preferences, it’s not always the whites who are the wronged party.
Recently The University of California changed it’s admission policy for all 9 of it’s campuses.
Flooded by Asian students who tend to do better than whites on test scores and school grades, the US regants decided to downplay the importance of tests and grades in their admission policy
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/economy/ap/48683642.html
“I like to call it affirmative action for whites,” said Ling-chi Wang, a retired professor at UC Berkeley. “I think it’s extremely unfair to Asian-Americans on the one hand and underrepresented minorities on the other.”
The new policy would eliminate the requirement that applicants take two SAT subject tests and reduce the number of students guaranteed admission based on grades and test scores alone. It takes effect for the freshman class of fall 2012.