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| More Anti-White Racism: Judge Orders Halt on FDNY Recruitment because Nonwhites Fail Entrance Exam Posted: 20 Oct 2010 02:54 PM PDT
In a typical "blame whites" ruling, Judge Nicholas Garaufis ordered last year that "racism" was to blame for the fact that nonwhites seemed incapable of passing the firefighter exams in anywhere near the same ratios as whites. Judge Nicholas Garaufis ruled that there were "overwhelming disparities" in the pass-fail rates between whites and minorities for exams given in 1999 and 2002 which violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The end result was that the FDNY is 91 percent white, although whites are not anywhere near that proportion of the city's inhabitants. There is, of course, an organization devoted to the interests of nonwhite firefighters, called the Vulcan Society, which continually agitates against what it claims is "white racism" in the FDNY. The Vulcan Society has supported a new bill that would require all new firefighters to live within the five boroughs of the city in an attempt to "diversify the FDNY." The legislation, drafted by Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and State Sen. Eric Adams (both D-Brooklyn) would require anyone hired by the FDNY to move to the city no later than one year before entering the Fire Academy. The firefighter would have to remain a city resident for the remainder of his career. "The city is quite diverse and this bill would help the department look more like the city it serves," said John Coombs, Vulcan Society president. There is no residency requirement for firefighters. About 4,500 of the FDNY's 11,600 uniformed members lived in the city last year, according to Fire Department sources. Meanwhile, the ban on recruitment has meant that over 300 places in the FDNY have gone unfilled, leading to serious safety problems in the city. The number of serious fires in New York has increased more than 3 percent in the first seven months of this year, FDNY statistics show. The number of serious fires — those that require at least 65 firefighters — increased from 1,387 to 1,430 through July. The sharpest upticks were in Brooklyn and the Bronx. * Judge Garaufis has not yet ruled on the amount of monetary damages that the nonwhites who failed the entrance exams should receive from the city for the "discrimination," but it is believed that they will be paid out compensation equivalent to at least two years' salary. |
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