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Nixon Launched Affirmative Action

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:14:07 GMT

clipped by: iulawboy
clipper's remarks: Funny how things come full circle and prior opponents are now the supporters.

Clip Source: crosscut.com

It is mostly forgotten now but it was President Richard Nixon, not earlier Presidents John Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson, who launched affirmative action. Prior to the Nixon administration, the whole thrust of legal and political action had been to remove legal barriers to equal opportunity rather than constructing a system setting aside actual or de facto quotas favoring one group or another.

Nixon Presidency

undertook an initiative to break notorious discrimination in the construction industry and unions. The so-called Philadelphia Plan was established which set aside a certain percentage of jobs for African Americans in construction trades. The practice soon spread elsewhere and became called affirmative action.

National liberals most active in leading the drive toward the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts were suspicious of affirmative action.

Tags: nixon, affirmative action, history

Isn't This A Little Bass Ackwards?

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:24:59 GMT

clipped by: Ilsadago1
clipper's remarks: Someone PLEASE explain this to me:

Illegals who have a job - crack down on them and the companies who hire them, but don't STOP illegals from getting into the country or send BACK the ones that commit crimes or drain our social services.

Yeah - long sentence. Still, it's a fair question. The administration keeps looking for new ways to spend our tax dollars and still can't fix anything.

California is crushed under the burden of illegals leaching on the system. They know where the illegals are, but won't send them back. Instead, the government wants to take the productive illegals and punish them and their employers?

We call that Bass Ackwards. And stupid.

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

Obama Administration Launches Investigation Into Companies That Employ Illegal Immigrants

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration launched investigations of hundreds of businesses around the U.S. Wednesday as part of its strategy to focus immigration enforcement on the employers who hire illegal workers.

President Barack Obama has said his administration's strategy for stemming illegal immigration would focus on employers who hire illegal workers.

"This nationwide effort is a first step in ICE's longterm strategy to address and deter illegal employment."

The I-9 audits are certain to cause concern among employers who have complained that identifying illegal workers is fraught with problems, from recognizing fake identity documents made to look authentic to risking violating anti-discrimination laws.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has said investigations will focus on businesses that knowingly hire immigrants who cannot legally work in the U.S.

Workplace Rights

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:21:23 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: cont.

If you don’t talk about your personal life at all, you don’t form connections or friendships with your co-workers. You are perceived as ‘distant.’ That is not a behavior that tends to lead to promotion or professional recognition.

The remaining option is to change pronouns and names. This is a nuisance. Forming relationships with co-workers based on lying is not likely to lead to long-term friendships. If you do form friendships, you have to go to great lengths to keep your work friends away from your real friends, where ‘real’ is defined as people you don’t feel compelled to lie to.

Clip Source: www.examiner.com

Homophobia and discrimination in the workplace

In college I wrote my senior thesis on homophobia in the workplace. I had to give a presentation to my classmates, most of whom had never considered the issue. The common sentiment was that homosexuality belonged behind bedroom doors and should not be discussed in the workplace. It is the equivalent of a 'don't ask, don't tell' employment contract. Like many people, my classmates were oblivious to the many ways they indirectly, and directly, identify themselves as heterosexual to their co-workers every day.

Whether you have a picture of your spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend or kids in your office or you chat with co-workers about a camping trip, movie or dinner last night with your family or beloved, you are identifying your sexual orientation indirectly, in countless ways, every day.

When you are gay and do the same thing, it may make co-workers uncomfortable, you risk becoming water cooler fodder and/or you may be fired.

An Open Letter

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:18:53 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "Every day, LGBT Americans face discrimination and are being denied their constitutional rights. There is no one in public life who could, and based on your stated principles and promises should, do more to move America forward toward becoming a country in which LGBT people are respected and treated as fully equal under our Constitution and laws.
We ask for your leadership and voice. When you lead, we will back you with every bit of heart and determination we can muster."

Clip Source: site.pfaw.org

Dear President Obama:

I am writing to respectfully urge you to bring the energetic moral vision that you championed as a presidential candidate to the cause of equality for gay and lesbian Americans.

That vision energized not only gays and lesbians, but many other fair-minded Americans who recognize discrimination as a national moral failing

That vision would be even more powerful coming from you as president, but since your election we have heard very little.

Any reasonable person is aware of the extraordinary challenges that faced the nation as you took office, including a dire financial crisis that has cost millions of Americans their jobs

Mr. President, you are uniquely capable of communicating to the American public the moral and constitutional values at stake in ending discrimination against gay Americans.

Helping Comrade Obama on the Census

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:42:00 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight

Clip Source: www.moonbattery.com

Have a look at the groups that will be assisting Comrade Obama and his henchman Dead Fish Emanuel collect information for the 2010 Census:

* ACORN
* 100 Black Men of America
* African American Women's House of Imagene (sic) Shelter
* American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
* Arab American Institute
* Asian American Federation
* Asian American Justice Center
* Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS
* Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage
* Boat People SOS
* Hispanic Alliance for Prosperity Institute
* Hispanic Federation
* Fundacion Azteca
* Latino Justice PDLDEF
* Mas New Mexico
* Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
* Minority Access
* National Alliance for Hispanic Health
* National Alliance of Black School Educators
* National American Indian Housing Council

the Census is used to determine Congressional representation and the size of government handouts, it's a sure bet that the Caucasian population of the USA is in for a drastic decline

Tags: census, discrimination, thugs

Justices Rule for WHITE firefighters in Bias Case

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:32:51 GMT

clipped by: tweezer
clipper's remarks: Labor law reduocumentation global

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.

New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the court said Monday in a 5-4 decision. The city said that it had acted to avoid a lawsuit from minorities.

The ruling could alter employment practices nationwide and make it harder to prove discrimination when there is no evidence it was intentional.

Tags: justice bias discrimination labor law

Social Justice

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:55:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is the ability to nourish your children and send them to school where their education not only equips them for employment but reinforces their knowledge and understanding of their cultural inheritance. It is the prospect of genuine employment and good health: a life of choices and opportunity, free from discrimination.

Mick Dodson,
Annual Report of the Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander
Social Justice Commissioner, 1993

Clip Source: www.safecom.org.au

Dr Carmen Lawrence: What is social justice?

The UN ... has added crucial social, economic and cultural rights, including the right to an adequate standard of living; the right to education; the right to work and to equal pay for equal work; and the right of minorities to enjoy their own culture, religion and language. These are all objectives of social justice policies.

In this formulation, poverty itself is a violation of human rights. Poverty and inequality can also be seen to undermine human rights by fuelling social unrest and violence and increasing the precariousness of social, economic and political rights.

Tags: social justice

Whiny Conservatives

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:52:24 GMT

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Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Whiny Conservatives: How Dare Rich White Guys Cry About Oppression?

The right-wing media have crafted an absurd -- and dangerous -- political narrative of white male oppression, exclusion and victimization.

In a June 12 column titled "Miss Affirmative Action 2009," Patrick Buchanan observed, regarding Judge Sonia Sotomayor's stellar academic career, "To salve their consciences for past societal sins, the Ivy League is deep into discrimination again, this time with white males as victims rather than as beneficiaries. One prefers the old bigotry. At least it was honest ..."

Here then is a common lament among white conservative men; from listening to Buchanan and other rich, old conservative pundits, one would think that they were the most oppressed minority in America today. Often, they go so far as to imply their "suffering" is far worse than that experienced by African Americans during the darkest twilight before the successes of the civil rights movement.

A study in Defeat: Appeasing Islam

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:17:04 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: there is a similar law dealing with "Blasphemy" on the table here in Ireland.

The whole world has gone mad.

Clip Source: americanpowerblog.blogspot.com

With the release of his new book, Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom

, the American writer and critic Bruce Bawer (some of whose work has appeared in City Journal) may have committed a crime in his adoptive Norway. In 2005, Norway’s politically correct parliament passed the so-called Discrimination Act, a law that, among other curbs on free speech, criminalized “utterances” that may be “insulting” to those of certain religious beliefs. Since Surrender is a searing indictment of Western opinion makers, especially in the media, for capitulating to the rise of radical Islam in Europe, and since Islamic extremists are bound to take issue with the author’s appeal for a sterner defense of Western freedoms, it’s a real possibility that Bawer could be prosecuted for what he has written.

A Study in Defeat: Review of Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom

From Jacob Laskin at City Journal: "A Study in Defeat: Bruce Bawer calls out Western apologists for radical Islam"

Tags: dhimmitude, islam, global insanity

Pagans in the Military

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:23:45 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.examiner.com

For many people, especially those outside of Paganism, there is a lingering belief that all Pagans are tree-hugging, pacifist and sometimes militantly anti-military. While this stereotype may fit some, the contrary is also true. There are Pagans who not only support the armed forces but are active members as well as veterans. And believe it or not, some of them are tree huggers too.

Pagans in the military deserve every right their mainstream counterparts have, not just rights afforded to them after they have died. Wicca is now recognized in the Military Chaplain's Handbook, but there is still a lot of headway to be made. Pagan soldiers who want to practice their religion may experience anything from ignorance to outright discrimination.

t's hard to completely erase prejudice, but Pagans can work within the law to have their rights recognized. Every small victory for military Pagans becomes part of the larger victory to help assure freedoms these soldiers are fighting for.

Tags: pagan, military, soldiers

Do you love humanity?

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:53:09 GMT

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Clip Source: bps-research-digest.blogspot.com

Do you love humanity?

"I love humanity but I hate people"

Edna St. Vincent Millay (American poet and playwright).

Psychology hasn't paid enough attention to the regard people have towards humanity - their "humanity-esteem"

That's according to Michelle Luke and Gregory Maio whose new research suggests a person's view of humanity can have important social implications, for example affecting their proclivity for racism

If we think highly of humankind, it follows that we're less likely to have a negative attitude to other ethnic groups - after all, they're human too

the researchers showed that people's humanity-esteem can be influenced by presenting them with images casting humankind in a positive light

or in a negative light

"Because the media often emphasises the negative side of human nature, it may have a negative influence on humanity-esteem and increase problems of discrimination. Awareness of this potential effect should enter discussions of the ways in which events are covered."

Blacks in survey say race relations are worse under Obama (cnn.com)

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:37:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From Blackinformant.com: The Democratic party played the race card to the hilt all throughout the election cycle. If you criticized Obama in any way, you were portrayed as either a “racist” who secretly did not want a Black man in the White House or you were simply an “Uncle Tom”. After Obama won the election, the media was quick to locate racist loons like David Duke (whose opinions never matter to the mainstream in the first place) and ask him for his two cents on Obama. Democrats repeatedly asked the question “Is Obama Black enough?” when Obama was running against Hillary Clinton. Any association with fried chicken with Obama became a few marchers short of launching yet another civil rights movement. Didn’t like the first lady’s fashion picks? You were a mean, bitter person who simply had a hard time dealing with Black women in powerful positions. Didn’t support the stimulus package? It was considered a “…a slap in the face of African-Americans.”

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

(CNN) -- African-Americans really like President Obama, but more and more feel that race relations have not gotten better since he took office, a new national poll found.

Ninety-six percent of African-Americans approve of how Obama is handling his presidency, according to a CNN/Essence Magazine/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Thursday.

Clip Source: www.blackinformant.com

But here is the kicker~

“During the 2008 election, 38 percent of blacks surveyed thought racial discrimination was a serious problem. In the new survey, 55 percent of blacks surveyed believed it was a serious problem, which is about the same level as it was in 2000.”

So in short, Blacks who were polled feel that race relations have become worse in this country than the first year Bush II took office.

Race, race, race. This is all we have been getting from the left since Obama took office. And so again, are we really supposed to be surprised at the results of this poll?

SHOCKING!!!!!!

Obama rewriting rules on transgender rights

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:12:50 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees, officials said Tuesday.

The guidelines will be in an updated federal handbook for managers and supervisors to be distributed and posted online in the next couple of months, and they could also be included in other materials for managers. They will list transgender people — those who identify their gender differently from the information on their birth certificates — as among several groups protected by antidiscrimination laws.

Though transgender men and women are not believed to make up more than a fraction of a percent of the federal work force, their inclusion in the discrimination guidelines is seen as a breakthrough by transgender and gay rights advocates.

Tags: obama, federal, government, gay, transgender

The US set to Apologise for Slavery and Segregation

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:55:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Well, it's about time!

Clip Source: www.allnewsweb.com

The US set to apologise for slavery and segregation

In what is being hailed by anti-racism activists around the world as a historic decision, the US Senate has finally approved the wording of a resolution that will apologise to African-American descendants of slaves for past injustices.

Approval from the House of Representatives is tipped to come as early as next week. The bill apologises for ‘fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery’ as well as the Jim Crow laws. Until only a few decades ago these laws, upheld in many states, insisted that African-American use separate bathrooms in public, ride on different sections of buses and eat in their own restaurants.

The bill also reaffirms ‘the principle that all people are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and calls on all people of the United States to work toward eliminating racial prejudices, injustices, and discrimination from our society.’

Just Exactly How Should The Government Discourage Homosexuality?

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:11:00 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.rightwingwatch.org

Today, gays and lesbians do not suffer the discrimination they did decades ago. President Obama recently appointed an openly gay man to head the Office of Personnel Management, the same institution that fired Kameny for being gay 52 years ago.

Despite that, there is still a strong movement against gay rights, and in some cases, against homosexuality.

The Family Research Council in Washington is among the concerned groups. The council's policy analyst, Peter Sprigg, says he believes homosexual conduct is harmful to society.

Sprigg says people should not be afforded special rights for what he considers to be their chosen way of life.

It's one thing to argue that the government should not be recognizing the validity of gays and their relationships or granting them equality - that's offensive as it is - but it is even more offensive to claim that the government should be actively "discouraging" homosexuality and I'd really love to know just what exactly Sprigg has in mind.