For some, it’s much easier to scream “institutionalized racism!” and make some calls to Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson than to actually take personal and individual responsibility. You know, maybe spend a few hours a week improving your reading and writing skills instead of pointing fingers and blaming whitie.

But, as we saw from Ricci, that might actually take some hard work, perserverance and, gasp, setting aside some money to help you get to that goal. See, much easier to feign the viction and call Reverand Al. I might get what I want without having to put any extra work into it.

Sort of like Acorn and the banks and forcing them to make loans to people who otherwise shouldn’t be qualified to get a home loan. It was much easier to get ACORN and Reverand Al to whip up a shit storm and force them to make loans rather than having people save up and buy a home they could afford.

And in the end we all suffer, but they sure showed whitie, didn’t they?

Why won’t the black community listen to him? They are turning their backs on an elder statesman to embrace and emulate gangsters.

Now here’s the tough question. If New Haven had special training for minority applicants so more passed the test, would that discriminate against whites? No — that is constitutional under the ‘compelling state interest’ principle. It might be unfair to an individual white applicant, but it would serve both state interests of producing qualified firemen and increasing diversity.

Take my younger brother and my late older brother. Same parents, same environment. Dead brother — prison, drugs, violent crime, overdose. Younger brother, criminal justice degree from Northeastern, now a private investigator. 6′3, 250 lbs, all state football player, black belt in martial arts. Yes, there’s a compelling state interest in not having my younger brother turn out like my older brother.

As for Obama being an ‘affirmative action’ President? No, he’s just a typical politician. You’ve heard the expression ‘never give a sucker an even break?’ American voters are suckers — we vote based on who we ‘want to have a beer with.’

Do you know how many decisions she has been involved in? Do you know how many of those decisions were then appealed to the Supreme Court? Do you know how many of those appeals were then even granted cert?

Learn about the Supreme Court, THEN opine on the “legal mind” you want elevated.

This is an article about what the AA firefighters in New Haven are thinking in the light of the recent SC decision.

New Haven has spent a great deal of money on its school system. The City is in the process of completely overhauling all of its school buildings and facilities. While there are local private schools, many Yale faculty members send their kids to the New Haven public schools, because they are excellent. There are well qualified teachers and many cultural programs available to New Haven kids that other towns can’t afford. If you want a good education and you live in New Haven, you can get it through the New Haven public schools. This isn’t a city in which AA kids are not given opportunities. The question is do they take advantage of those opportunities?

Also, the test that was prepared for these firefighters was prepared after much research into the actual workings of the the NHFD. It was not an arbitrary test provided by a group who had no understanding off what the requirements were in NH to do this job. It was approved by the white Fire Chief and the black Assistant Chief before it was administered. As a result, even if the AA firefighters do sue, they are not likely to succeed, since part of the discrimination laws deals with intent. Clearly, a strenuous effort was made to create a fair test; that undermines any claim of disparate conduct.

The bottomline remains what are the requirements of a job and how do you predict success in that job? Tests are not perfect; but they have been proven over time to measure skills. The color of a person’s skin is not a measure of skills or success. I support Affirmative Action, as it was intended….to provide opportunities for “equally qualified” people who have been historically disadvantaged. When you give a test based on materials and experiences available to everyone and then hold two groups to different standards of success, you are not applying the principles of affirmative action. You are discriminating in favor of one group over the other. Sadly, that has happened so often that now affirmative action is almost unrecognizable….