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November 16, 2009
Racism Imposed From the Bench
Posted by Van Helsing at November 16, 2009 7:57 AM
So much for people being judged by the content of their character. Our president was chosen primarily for his skin color; U.S. District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle in Louisiana has ruled that the same should hold true for school board members:
A federal judge ordered the Tangipahoa Parish School Board this week to hire qualified black applicants for administrative positions until 40 percent of these positions are held by black educators, court records show.
Blacks make up only 29% of Tangipahoa Parish's population.
Lemelle has imposed his racial preferences from the bench before:
Last year, Lemelle ordered the School Board to hire a black coach who had been passed over for a job opening at Amite High School.
Say a candidate for an administrative job in the schools of Lemelle's fiefdom has no qualifications whatsoever other than the one that matters, black skin. The superintendent can refuse to recommend him, but…
If the superintendent does not recommend a black applicant for a position, he must submit written reasons to a committee made up of the chief desegregation plan implementation officer, director of personnel and minority recruitment officer.
This committee then may interview the rejected applicant and decide whether to recommend that person to the School Board anyway.
The objective of course is "diversity" — that is, naked anti-Caucasian racism.
On a tip from Andrea.
Comments
Judge Lemelle is, of course, black.
Posted by: LouieLouie at November 16, 2009 8:08 AM
Meanwhile, the children suffer. Again. And, again. Over and over, ad nauseum. More in the "gud enuf skuuling".
Posted by: nancz at November 16, 2009 8:30 AM
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The important distinction being, in this judge's mind, that some citizens are more equal than others.
The irony escapes these people. Centuries of slavery and civil rights violations were only possible because politicians and judges never took that whole "all men are created equal" concept seriously.
The special interest groups have changed, but the base human drive for racism and identity politics remains.
Today's racism is racism in the name of the progressive agenda. Under that agenda, racism is okay if intended to balance out some earlier racism, with that call being left to a liberal judge or progressive pundit. Somebody please tell me how that is no more arbitrary, prone to abuse, or demeaning than the 18th century judicial abuses directed against minorities in the name of the white, Christian parochialism that was buried by the Fourteenth Amendment and Civil Rights Movement?
Posted by: Anonymous Countermoonbat at November 16, 2009 8:34 AM
How the f*cking hell can this be legal and/or constitutional???
Posted by: Fuzzlenutter at November 16, 2009 8:37 AM
More rulings from the imperial court of OBAMASES THE SWINE
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at November 16, 2009 8:40 AM
Under that agenda, racism is okay if intended to balance out some earlier racism,
When Marxists and Muslims say "Equality," translate as "Revenge."
"Two wrongs make a right" isn't just a correct proposition in their eyes, it's their modus operandi.
Posted by: Conservigilant at November 16, 2009 8:40 AM
'cause you live in ObamaLand
Posted by: blue at November 16, 2009 8:41 AM
How the f*cking hell can this be legal and/or constitutional???
Too many patriots have stood silent for too long.
Posted by: Anonymous Countermoonbat at November 16, 2009 8:54 AM
What would happen if the school board read the ruling and said to the judge: "We're not going to do this; it is stupid." Would he have any jurisdiction to punish them meaningfully, or would it bump up to the next layer court? Nevermind he's way past his peter principle.
Posted by: Mr Evilwrench at November 16, 2009 9:53 AM
How the f*cking hell can this be legal and/or constitutional???
Too many patriots have stood silent for too long.
Posted by: Anonymous Countermoonbat at November 16, 2009 8:54 AM
Exactly AC. Now how much longer are we gonna put up with it, and are we willing to take to the streets with guns and pitchforks?
Posted by: Nunya at November 16, 2009 10:20 AM
I applaud this decision!
Well done, Judge Lemelle! Well done!
Only Communism Can End Racism.
Posted by: TheGreatWhiteAmericanWimp at November 16, 2009 11:10 AM
>If the superintendent does not recommend a black applicant for a position, he must submit written reasons to a committee made up of the chief desegregation plan implementation officer, director of personnel and minority recruitment officer.>
If I were the superintendant, I would write this:
"Because TOKENISM is a form of RACISM."
You older folks here will remember president Carter's "human rights" legislation, which set the stage for this crap. It was just plain TOKENISM and was the reason for my first political protest.
Posted by: KHarn at November 16, 2009 2:08 PM
Affirmative Action, a clear and unconstitutional form of racism has been in effect for over 30 years in this country; "hate" (thought) crimes are applied disproportionately to white perpetrators, taxes are taken from largely white to be given to largely black areas, corporations and businesses are forced into "diversity" policies, Universities have African-American departments and black student unions; billions of dollars of government grants and set asides are earmarked for minorities, there are black television stations, black magazines, black communities, black churches, blacktop, on and on.
Why stop now?
Posted by: Fiberal at November 16, 2009 3:03 PM
wow...the racial composition of school administrations is now subject to judicial decree...in addition to this policy being utterly racist, Big Brothery, and unconstitutional, what the hell makes this judge think he has such far reaching power as to just create a policy and demand it be implemented? even worse is that institutions that should tell these activist judges to go take a long walk off a short pier dont
Posted by: Anonymous at November 16, 2009 4:16 PM
"If the superintendent does not recommend a black applicant for a position, he must submit written reasons to a committee made up of the chief desegregation plan implementation officer, director of personnel and minority recruitment officer.
This committee then may interview the rejected applicant and decide whether to recommend that person to the School Board anyway."
Nothing new here, people. For several years in the great State of Delaware (Yep, proud home of our VP), our government mandated that any candidate for a state job be interviewed by a *diverse* panel consisting of at least two of five members who are minority, from outside the area of expertise. They even sent us a list of 'pre-approved' minority panelists from which we could chose. If a minority candidate made it to the last round of interviews (they ALWAYS did), if they weren't selected, the hiring manager (yours truly), would have to justify the decision in writing to our very own Diversity Officer in the personnel office. They had the right to overturn any decisions. This process usually created the perfect clusterfuck storm.
See, here in BidenLand, we're way ahead of that slacker Judge.
Posted by: Miscreant at November 16, 2009 5:23 PM


