Score One for the Firefighters of New Haven

Not being a fan of laws encouraging, even defending race-based quotas, I've watched the case of the New Haven firefighters make its was to the U.S. Supreme Court for the last few years. It began while I was living in Connecticut which gave me even more of a vested interest. If you don't know much about it, here's the condensed version: Several white and hispanic firefighters took a standard test, along with their African American colleagues which determined eligibility for promotions. Most, if not all of the white/Latino firefighters received high marks meeting the qualifications while some of the African American firefighters did not. The city of New Haven, Connecticut invalidated the results for the non-black firefighters in fear of being sued by the black firefighters and promoted a few of them instead... Off to court we go and judge after crazed, racist, biased judge shot them down; until today. The Supreme Court said "no", New Haven was wrong. And as you probably know, it's a serious bitch-slap to Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor who infamously dismissed those same firemen when they came before her court. Not only did she throw their case out, she issues a once-sentence shoot-down of the very serious case which had very serious merits on both sides. Oh Sonia, you silly goose.

So forgive me for wallowing in my crass political incorrectness, but this is a happy day. Affirmative Action policies lived their 15 minutes and were a good thing, only until perhaps the late 1970s. Now, they're simply an abused tool for groups who support them to win their ways into jobs and funding and services which many other non-minorities are shut-out of solely based on their race. So, cheers to the firefighters, white, hispanic AND black for dousing the flames of racial bias and draconian affirmative action rules. A good day indeed.

Posted by JD on June 29, 2009 12:43 PM