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Not Just In New Haven...

You?re all familiar by now with the New Haven Fire Department, which decided not to promote anyone to lieutenant or captain because no blacks passed the promotion exam. (See here, citing a bunch of earlier discussions of Ricci v. DeStefano.)

But you probably haven?t heard about the police department that left senior positions unfilled rather than promote whites. That?s because this particular police department is in South Africa.

According to court documents, the government's emphasis on racially representative employees has resulted in the South African Police Services (Saps) opting to leave positions for senior forensic scientists vacant rather than appointing white scientists.

When the American South was segregated, discriminating against blacks, it was very much like South Africa. Now that the entire United States is promoting ?diversity? by giving preferential treatment to blacks, it is very much like South Africa.

Full post as published by Discriminations on May 22, 2009 (boomark / email).