“Inside a burning building, fire doesn’t discriminate between Matthew Marcarelli and Gary Tinney. Inside the New Haven Fire Department,however, skin color has put them on opposite sides of a lawsuit that could transform hiring procedures nationwide. This week, the Supreme Court will consider the reverse discrimination claim of Marcarelli and a group of white firefighters. They all passed a promotion exam, but the city threw out the test because no blacks would have been promoted, saying the exam had a “disparate impact” on minorities likely to violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act.”
With the election of Barack Hussein Obama to the office of President of the United States the end of, “It’s because I am Black” complaints are beginning to fall on deaf ears. There was a time in this country was not only the normal way to do things, but in some states it was the law. Those times are behind us now and I for one will not miss them. Martin Luther King said, “I have a dream that my four little children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” You got it Martin. The time is now.
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