Justice ness

"...blind goddess to which we black are wise, / Her bandage hides two festering sores / That once, perhaps, were eyes"
~Langston Hughes, from Justice

Wrong Answer

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Price of the Confederate Veterans Loyalty Oath

“Fear of litigation alone cannot justify the City’s reliance on race to the detriment of individuals who passed the examinations and qualified for promotions. Discarding the test results was impermissible under Title VII, and summary judgment is appropriate for petitioners on their disparate-treatment claim,”...

“If, after it certifies the test results, the City faces a disparate-impact suit, then in light of today’s holding the City can avoid disparate-impact liability based on the strong basis in evidence that, had it not certified the results, it would have been subject to disparate-treatment liability.”
~JustUs Kennedy

(What's that saying?) ...when you fail to be surprised, something something something?

Police Draw Guns on Black Men Opening Bank Accounts

Brother took bby questions, answered them, taught, and advised. Ainshun yut's dem: ever new miracles. (still haffi deal w/banc: truck note...awo).

For Ryan Moats in that Moment

President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (with Robinson) after the U.S. gov't kidnapped him & took him to Antigua and then CAR.

"I tried to love America, its places, its well-ordered marrow, its surplus appurtenance. But I could not love a place. I could not love things. No one in good health can. Imagine a world of material wealth devoid of people. What's to love? Nothing.

I tried to love America but America would not love the ancient, full African whole of me. Thus I could not love America. I had come to know too much of her work. ...Then I stopped trying to love America. I have not despaired the moment."

~Randall Robinson, Quitting America, 2004

"For the Negro, pure and simple, there is no country but Africa, and in America his deeper instincts tell him so. He will never be understood, nor will he ever understand his European guide and teacher, as long as he remains in the countries of his exile. He is often misled by the overflowing and ceaseless generosity of white men* into a belief that his benefactors are getting nearer to the idea of practical oneness and brotherhood with him. But among the phenomena in the relations of the white man to the Negro in the house of bondage none has been more curious than this: that the white man, under a keen sense of the wrongs done to the Negro, will work for him, will suffer for him, will fight for him, will even die for him, but he cannot get rid of a secret contempt for him."

~Edward Wilmot Blyden, Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race 1887

*["hey, obama ... is."]

Ricci v. DeStefano

The lawsuit, Ricci v. DeStefano, was filed in 2004 by one Latino and 19 white firefighters who claimed that they were denied promotion on account of their race. The case began in 2003, when the city administered a civil service exam for the promotion of firefighters to the ranks of lieutenant and captain. When white firefighters received the highest scores on the test, the city decided to throw out the results, saying that the exam displayed a racial bias.

The so-called “New Haven 20” filed suit, claiming that the city’s decision amounted to race discrimination against white firefighters who should have been promoted. Nineteen of the 20 are white; one is Hispanic.

Now that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear it, the case has the potential to steer the course of the country’s civil rights history. (more).