More government sponsored RACISM!

I noticed in the Arizona Republic this morning a very short story. It said that the EEOC was going to sue employers who refused to employ blacks or latinos because of a [color=#FF0000]CRIMINAL RECORD or bad credit history. Apparently it is OK with them if whites are refused employment for the same reasons.

This is absolute insanity!!

no, your post is absolute insanity. come back when you fix your post- What is the eeoc?/Link your article/ etc etc ...

reply to post by groingrinder


They'll have all the backing and support of Eric Holder and the DoJ.
Why does this not surprize me.

www.latimes.com...

is this the story you remember reading? I am reading up on it now.

I searched the source you cited and found nothing relating to this.

And besides, you can sue someone for anything. Doesn't mean you'll win.

reply to post by againuntodust


EEOC is the government. The government can sue you. You cannot sue the government.

reply to post by fordrew


The article was in the Arizona Republic newspaper. Dated today. I am sure you can find it at your local library. Not every thing is online. Libraries are your friend.

EEOC is Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. A part of the federal government.

reply to post by rogerstigers

Yes, that is essentially the same story that was in my newspaper. It is crazy that they will uphold this for blacks and latinos only. America is supposed to treat everyone the same.

reply to post by groingrinder


At the moment the story is still floating around as if federal authorities are suing Kapland higher education on the basis of refusing individuals with criminal backround, we don't know as to whether this reasoning has been confirmed. AP reported that federal authorities were taking kaplan to court for checking credit histories but they did not state that this was regarding individual criminal histories. Frankly I do believe that private businesses should be able to hire whom they want. I think we need to leave society to integrate socially itself, government can only do so much. I think its society's obligation to demonize businesses who choose based on race but government shouldn't have to be involved.

And regarding the civil rights act? The original 1964 civil rights act had nothing to do with obligating private businesses to hire minorities, this was a law signed in 1965, a year after that bill, so the article got that one wrong.

reply to post by groingrinder


Well a similar thing exists in the financial services industry. I find it hard to understand who this applies to or affects black applicants only. Still there must be many black applicants who fit all of the hiring criteria. Not all black people live in Da Hood!

How can latinos even be considered in this? I thought they were considered a Majority in AZ? How can they be a Majority and a Minority at the same time?

Depends on the actual job and how a criminal record may pose a high-risk if that person was employed. I hardly think this topic can be debated on such a wide scale. You need to be more specific of job title to argue against this.

I think it is funny that the EEOC, by saying that credit checks for employment have a "significant disparate impact on blacks", is basically saying that black people have bad credit. LINK

WOW

o_O

EEOC either sounds like a stand up comedian or a racist tool bag.

The problem I have with this is if the EEOC is going to use sweeping generalities to uphold discrimination laws, they have to basically admit that those sweeping generalities are absolute.

That is racism.

Come on it's just like the case in NYC. Remember the one where the fire dept. was discriminating against black and latino's taking the firefighters exam? The courts very decision was racist. By requiring the city to lower it's testing standards, the courts are saying there is a difference between the whites and blacks & latinos! The government has a interest in keeping racism alive. Heck most people miss the forest for all the trees on this issue.

reply to post by groingrinder


affirmative action has always been discriminatory against white guys..

It happens in the military for promotions, special officer programs, they somehow continually fail the usmc manadatory swim qual yet still "pass" it.

they (minorities) even get extra points for college some states..

united negro college fund, society of black engineers (grants), ETC...

kinda like how blacks complained that there were not enough black nfl head coaches, yet totally blow over the fact that somehow sports athletes (if affirmative action was used fairly only 20% of athletes in pro's could be black) should not have to abide by affirmative action but the coaches should??

reply to post by rebeldog


Well Must of the guys that I know were straight A student and passed all swimming test put before them. Nice try !
Don't you think you have over generalised a bit? We were talking sbout Kaplan

Originally posted by groingrinder
reply to post by fordrew

 

The article was in the Arizona Republic newspaper. Dated today. I am sure you can find it at your local library. Not every thing is online. Libraries are your friend.

EEOC is Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. A part of the federal government.

The Arizona Republic Newspaper is online. It is pretty common protocol around here to post a link to a story one is presenting.

The article Found in less than a minute.