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Reverse Discrimination
Sun, 07/26/2009 - 21:39 | Civil Rights
Before the Supreme Court ruled in the case of the New Haven, CT firefighters, a Washington Post article assessed the pending ruling's impact on whites:
When does possible discrimination against one race turn into actual discrimination against another?Yesterday's intense, serious and expanded argument came in the first of two cases the court has taken to examine the role that race should still play in government policies.The arguments come as the court has grown more skeptical of such policies, and in the wake of the election of the nation's first black president, who has urged a new conversation about the effects of past discrimination and the future of race relations.Gregory S. Coleman, an Austin lawyer who opposes race-based policies and is representing both the firefighters and the Voting Rights Act challengers, said his clients were being punished simply because of their race."Racial classifications are inherently pernicious and, if not checked, lead as they did in New Haven to regrettable and socially destructive racial politics," he told the court.As we know, the Court ruled in favor of the firefighters.
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Discrimination and Racial Hatred
It's been about 35 years since a relative of mine said to me, "They want Pittsburgh to be an all white city." I was very young and ignorant to both the depth and impact that racial hatred would be present and ongoing in the North. In the Pittsburgh public school classroom, only the topic of Jim Crow laws in the South was covered. Thus, whenever they bestowed on me the power to have a voice, I didn't know the magnitude of that power nor did I understand that my say would be a determining factor in the future. Stablelization agents stayed very close to me, and probably slept right next to me througout my ignorance. Thus, I'm saying that the hateful racist had a plan, and they were thinking, "We got us one dumb nigger, here," and they used me to speak words that could lead to a black holocaust--Constantly, I tried to alert those who I thought would protect the Black race as African-American people. I wrote letters and I called the: Urban League, NAACP, the Pennsylvania Congressman and Senator. I let my voice be heard about Pittsburgh being at risk of becoming a Police State, but it fell on deaf ears. They really did not care, and today I live in a place where I am surrounded by whites and I have lost to a suspicious and confusing death, a son, a daughter and son-in-law who have spoken these words to me, "I'm not your son." "I'm not your daughter." "Your daughter is dead."
We would not need discrimintory laws, if
reasons why we in america had to have discrimintory laws is because of pass crimes against a race that was raped by misguided people hidding behind the unconstitutional laws.
Louisville, Ky
Reverse Discrimination
When they wrote the anti-discrimination and the civil rights bill, they should have specified that only decendents of slaves and those that were murdered while fighting for equality would be the beneficiaries of the civil rights laws. Anytime an educated law practicing human being agrees with reverse discrimination, then they must have fell to learn that discrimination was a legal way of life against "african americans" since post slavery when some white folks would never treat us "blacks" as equal. Alot of them fill that way about us today and they raise their children to look at us as inferior to them. When we were slaves everybody worked, you could even put your baby on your back and work, but as soon as labor started to cost we were no longer capable of doing the job. We ought not let them take our rich history and our struggle and use it against us.
Peace!