Court rules for white firefighters over promotions

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge....

 

By MARK SHERMAN

 

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this could get interesting...

[Old Salt]

I doubt very much that it will affect Sotomayor's chances of being appointed to the Supreme Court.

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I was more moved by the minority vote, 4 of our justices believed the reverse discrimination was perfectly fine. To think one justice different and we would live under a much different kind of Government without the Constitution.

 

 

 

I want to ammend my comment, it is not reverse discrimination....it is just discrimination.

 

Any discrimination is wrong, even if it is against a while male.

 

Consider the possition of the town and Sotomayor for a moment.

 

These Liberals are saying that blacks cannot compete against whites if the playing field is a level one.........why? The rules for the tests were made clear to everyone. The training and access to information was the same for everyone. Everyone had the same abilities to study and prepare so why didn't the blacks perform as well? If you ask me blacks are just as capable as whites so what was the defining factor of why men and women of the same mental "potential" performed at a much lower level?

 

To me it can only be motivation. There are stories of how the whites studied much more and one guy even spent over a thousand dollars to get help with his learning disability. Those who work the hardest should get the rewards of their harder work.

 

If you ask me the practice of giving away promotions and jobs to people only because of their race and not because they have earned it is now having a very bad result.

 

Now as usual the Liberals who claim to be the champions of minorities are the real racists. These guys really believe Blacks cannot measure up, and it is the Conservatives who are saying yes they can.