Government Could Save Billions if it didn't sue Government - The Progressive Avenger Strikes Again

Our enemy governments will never stop suing itself. It steals too much money for government lawyers and bureaucrats. It could also cut down on suits if it would truly be colorblind and quit trying to cover-up for the unqualified and incompetent. 

There are now two sets of laws, one set for Blacks, "Hispanics" and Muslims; then the other for the rest of the US. m/r

The Progressive Avenger Strikes Again by Seth Barron, City Journal 8 April 2014

Mayor de Blasio caves on a spurious—and expensive—discrimination claim.

8 April 2014

New York mayor Bill de Blasio recently threw in the towel on the city’s long fight against a lawsuit seeking back pay for African-Americans and Hispanics who failed the written exam to become city firefighters. The Bloomberg administration fought a seven-year legal battle against the U. S. Justice Department, refusing to accept the stipulation that the city had “intentionally” engineered African-American and Hispanic under-representation in the FDNY. Now, thanks to de Blasio’s decision to settle the suit, taxpayers must cough up close to $100 million in “broad injunctive relief and back pay.”

When the Vulcan Society, the FDNY’s black firefighters association, filed its first complaint against the city in 2002, few minorities worked in the fire department. At the time, African-Americans constituted 25.6 percent of the population of New York City, but only 3.4 percent of the FDNY—a statistic often cited as prima facie evidence of discriminatory hiring practices. Less remarked upon is the overrepresentation of African-Americans in other city agencies. In the Department of Corrections, for instance, 61 percent of personnel are African-American and 18 percent are Latino. Corrections officers are paid at virtually the same scale as firefighters, so there is no economic reason for the discrepancy.

It’s natural to wonder about a test that could produce such skewed results, and which a federal judge ruled had “discriminatory effects on certain minority applicants, including black applicants, and failed to test for relevant job skills.” If the test was intentionally designed to flunk minorities, surely it must have contained absurdly particularized questions meant to screen applicants on cultural knowledge, or exclusionary questions such as might have been found at a Jim-Crow-era poll site? We might expect something like: “The nearest hydrant to the fire is about a chip shot away. What length hose is required?” Or, “Jimmy Donahue noticed that Maggie Shaughnessy was wearing her Claddagh ring on her left hand with the heart pointing outward. Should Jimmy ask Maggie to accompany him to the Holy Name Society’s annual banquet?” Or, “If your spinnaker is torn, which of the following tournaments are you unable to compete in? ...

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