Okay, I have had it. Yes, it has been a while! But, when I read this I had to share!!
This Supreme Court nominee makes me sick!! I found this story and was infuriated by what happened.
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In 2003, the New Haven fire department had several vacancies for new lieutenants and captains. Candidates for promotion had to take a written and oral test. Candidates had three months to prepare. Ricci gave up a second job to study. Because he is dyslexic, Ricci paid an acquaintance more than $1,000 to read textbooks onto audiotapes. He studied 8 to 13 hours a day. And he succeeded. Ricci's exam ranked sixth among the 77 candidates who took the test. But New Haven's civil service board ruled that not enough minorities earned a qualifying score. The city is more than a third black. None of the 19 African-American firefighters who took the exam earned a sufficient score. The city tossed out the exam. No promotions were given. Ricci and 17 other white firefighters, including one Hispanic, sued New Haven for discrimination.
In 2006, a Federal District Court ruled that the city had not discriminated against the white firefighters. Judge Janet Bond Arterton argued that since "the result was the same for all because the test results were discarded and nobody was promoted," no harm was done."
So, Ricci worked his tail off for this test and promotion! He found a way to study for the test and passed, but because a bunch of lazy guys that happened to be Black and Hispanic didn't study and pass, Ricci was denied his promotion.
"When the case came before the three-judge panel of the New York federal appeals court, Arterton's ruling was upheld in an unsigned and, as the New York Times described it, "unusually terse decision." One of the judges who upheld the ruling was Sotomayor."
That does it, our newest Supreme Court nominee is racist against whites.
I consider myself colorblind! I believe that anyone, Black, White, Green Yellow, Orange, Purple, you get the idea. Can become whatever they want if they will work hard enough for it. But, don't punish the hard working for the sake of the lazy. If anyone of those who failed that test really would have wanted to pass, would have gone to the extremes like Ricci.
We have shown we are mainly a non-racist society, hello we have a Black president! All these affirmative action rules are doing are creating laziness. That any minority doesn't have to work as hard as the next guy. They don't have to excel in anything, they can just be mediocre. This breeds a horrible work ethic.
I watched an episode of "ER" a long time ago and a Black woman came in and needed help, well the Black doctor came in to help her and she refused his service knowing that he didn't have to perform as well as the next guy to become a doctor.
So much for everyone being created equal!!
Reference: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/28/obama_sotomayor_ricci_and_white_male_privilege__96703.html
