Obama Ignores Shocking Racism In Capital Transit System.(
JW).While the Obama Justice Department works to bring racial diversity to the
nation’s workforce and education system, the administration ignores the
perplexing homogeneity at on at one of the largest employers in the capital
region, the taxpayer-funded
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority.
This may seem ironic considering the administration, mostly via the
Department of Justice (DOJ), has implemented a variety of controversial programs
to promote and protect blacks and Latinos in the name of diversity. Examples
will be listed below, but first let’s check out the outrageous lack of racial
diversity at the sprawling transit system that serves the area surrounding the
White House.
Nearly all of the bus and train operators in the system are black, according
to an investigation conducted by a local
newspaper. This week the paper is publishing a three-part series outlining
the findings, which are downright astounding.
The first article reveals that 97%
of the bus and train operators in the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority are black, with only six white women out of more than 3,000
drivers.
This unbelievable lack of diversity has led to a series of lawsuits, the
story reveals, and a culture of corruption in which favoritism—rather than
merit—plays a role in promotions.
Here is a typical example straight from court
and transit records; a black man who served an eight-year prison sentence for
dealing drugs was promoted to a high-level management job after his release
while whites in the same positions as blacks with far less seniority are
inexplicably paid less.
Even in entry-level occupations typically dominated by Hispanics, there are
virtually none in the system, the records show. Only one laborer out of 67 is
Hispanic; of 540 landscapers, carpenters and cleaners, only 22 are Hispanic. An
attorney representing a dozen white women in a lawsuit against the metro system
says “
the odds of such a disparity occurring by chance are statistically
infinitesimal. There appears to be an entrenched network of African-American
employees at WMATA that is able to steer jobs, promotion, training and other
career enhancing benefit to persons of their own racial or ethnic group.”
The system does have a “civil rights” office that hears discrimination
complaints, but it too lacks racial diversity because all 17 employees running
it are black. White and Hispanic transit workers who have reported
discrimination have encountered a “deaf ear at Metro’s civil rights office,” the
article states.
All this is occurring in the president’s back yard, indicating that he cares
only about selective affirmative action. In the last few years the
administration has implemented a number of measures to shield and promote
minorities in the workforce as well as public education. The movement started
with a new
Office
of Diversity and Inclusion to help build a “diverse and inclusive workforce”
at all federal government agencies.
The DOJ’s bloated civil rights division has committed to eliminating
workplace tests that may be viewed as discriminatory against minorities. Known
as
“disparate
impact,” the racial discrimination created by written exams is especially
rampant in the nation’s police and fire departments, according to Thomas Perez,
the Assistant Attorney General who heads the DOJ’s civil rights division. In the
name of diversity, he has vowed to do away with the racist exams.
A few months ago the administration issued official government guidelines to
promote diversity in the nation’s public education system. The joint venture
between the DOJ and the Department of Education (DOE) aims to
“reduce
racial isolation among students,” by, among other things, blending the rich
with the poor. The guidelines are expected to be implemented by the nation’s
elementary and secondary schools as well as colleges and universities that
receive taxpayer dollars.
The administration has even proposed a special plan to make the
airwaves
more ethnically diverse by holding broadcasting rights hostage for those who
don’t pass a “public value” test.
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