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Old 06-29-2009, 04:08 PM
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but how was the outcome exclusionary, based on race, I presume?
no black firefighters and only one latino fire fighters got promoted.
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Old 06-29-2009, 04:11 PM
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no black firefighters and only one latino fire fighters got promoted.
NO. No one got promoted because no black firefighters and only one latino fire fighter scored well enough to be promoted.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...in;contentBody

One of the things that's interesting to me about this is that at one point someone tried to review the test to see what was biased about the questions asked. I'm trying to find a link to the results.

I can't find the article I remember reading but this discusses some of the issues:http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news...e=1&cat=&more=

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Old 06-29-2009, 04:12 PM
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NO. No one got promoted because no black firefighters and only one latino fire fighters scored well enough to be promoted.
well, yea. ok, the reason i stated was the reason the test got thrown out initially.
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Old 06-29-2009, 04:15 PM
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well, yea. ok, the reason i stated was the reason the test got thrown out initially.
No it wasn't, because like UGAalum94 says, no one got promoted.

The test results were thrown out because (again, as UGAalum94 says) no black firefighters and only one latino fire fighters scored well enough to be promoted to begin with, leading the city to believe that if it certified and relied on the test results, the city would be open to a lawsuit claiming that the test was unfair to non-whites. So instead, they got a lawsuit from the employees who would have been promoted had the test results been certified.
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Old 06-29-2009, 04:21 PM
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The test results were thrown out because (again, as UGAalum94 says) no black firefighters and only one latino fire fighters scored well enough to be promoted to begin with
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no black firefighters and only one latino fire fighter
good grief. talk about majoring in minors. that was the geist of my post.
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Old 06-29-2009, 04:27 PM
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good grief. talk about majoring in minors. that was the geist of my post.
Sue me -- I'm a lawyer and I pick the nits like crazy when it comes to court opinions.

And here, it is a distinction with a legal difference -- or at least a difference that matters in understanding the opinion -- I think.
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Old 06-29-2009, 04:39 PM
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The sequence of how it went down is what actually matters in the case, I think.

The actual suit resolved today depends entirely on the promotions being canceled.

The city claims that the reason they canceled the results was that they expected Black and Hispanic firefighters to sue if they went through with the promotion. Today, the Supreme Court said that being afraid you'd get sued alone wasn't a good enough reason to discriminate against a different racial group.

It's hard not to feel bad for the dyslexic guy who said he studied for like 10 hours a day and scored well enough for a promotion and then didn't get one based on the performance of other racial/ethnic subgroups on the test, over which, of course, he had absolutely no control.
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Old 06-29-2009, 04:59 PM
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good grief. talk about majoring in minors. that was the geist of my post.
I was getting ready to say you all are typing in circles over semantics. I knew what you meant.
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