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01/13/2009: "Gary, IN being sued by whites for racial hiring"

Two articles on this I want you to read. I hope this will be a new trend among whites by standing up for their rights, and speaking out against discrimination against whites.

GARY, Ind. -- The U.S. Department of Justice is accusing the city of Gary of passing over white applicants for paramedic positions and offering jobs to black applicants who ranked lower on the city's hiring list.

A lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Hammond accuses the city of violating several white applicants' civil rights through racial discrimination.

The suit alleges the city hired a total of seven applicants who were black even though they ranked lower than six applicants who were white. The suit maintains that officials had said that applicants would be hired according to their ranking on the list.

The lawsuit seeks an injunction prohibiting discriminatory hiring by the city, and an order stopping the city from refusing to provide "remedial relief."

The Associated Press left phone messages seeking comment from city officials.

Gary's population is 85 percent black.

Original article.

Feds sue Gary over alleged racial hiring

The federal government is suing the city of Gary over accusations the city discriminated against white applicants for paramedic jobs.

In a lawsuit filed Monday in Hammond federal court by the U.S. Department of Justice, federal civil rights lawyers accuse Gary officials of violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by hiring six black applicants for emergency medical technician jobs in October 2006. Several white applicants were ranked higher than some of those black applicants on a city list that was supposed to determine who would be hired, according to the lawsuit.

Gary City Attorney Hamilton Carmouche said the black applicants were hired because they lived in Gary, not because of their race. The white applicants did not live in Gary, Carmouche said. The city never would consider race in hiring, Carmouche said.

The city will fight the lawsuit "vigorously," Carmouche said.

Richard Hurst, of Lowell, is one of the white applicants named in the lawsuit. Hurst, 42, said Monday he endured three months of written and physical tests, interviews and a psychological evaluation before he discovered he did not get one of the jobs. Hurst ranked fourth on the 25-person list, and the city later hired at least five black applicants who ranked lower on the list, according to the lawsuit.

Hurst was "very upset" when he wasn't hired, he said.

"We went through a long, long testing process. A lot of hours were involved," he said. "Up until the very end, I was led to believe that within days I would be hired, and they pulled it all out from under us."

On Carmouche's claim that the black candidates were chosen because of residency, Hurst said applicants were told by a city supervisor that residency would not matter. Hurst said he would have moved to Gary if he was told the job required it.

The lawsuit focuses on the 25-person list city officials allegedly compiled in February 2006. The list said jobs would be offered to candidates in order of their rank until February 2007, according to the lawsuit. On Oct. 10, 2006, the city hired six black applicants who ranked Nos. 1, 5, 9, 10, 11 and 12 on the list, according to the lawsuit. The city did not offer jobs to white applicants ranked Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8, the lawsuit says. The city hired another unranked black paramedic in November, the suit says.

The six white applicants filed complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the commission found evidence supporting the complaints, the suit says. Commission officials tried unsuccessfully to resolve the complaints with the city, then referred the matter to the Department of Justice, the suit says.

Carmouche said the federal government never gave him information he would have needed to resolve the complaints.

The listing process described in the lawsuit is not part of city policy, and it never should have been used, Carmouche said. Civilians in the Fire Department made the list, Carmouche said.

"Why somebody down there would do that, I don't know," he said.

The jobs all were eliminated in city budget cutbacks, and none of the paramedics hired still works for the city, Carmouche said.

The suit seeks an injunction preventing the city from using discriminatory hiring, as well as an order stopping the city from refusing financial relief for the white paramedics.

Hurst said he doesn't want the job anymore.

"I would just like to see ... it be known that they did what they did," Hurst said.

Original article.

I really hope this will be a counter measure for cities like Dayton, OH who are being sued because the test taken to be considered for the Fire Department seems to be too hard for blacks, thus preventing larger numbers of blacks getting jobs as fire fighters. Yes, it is a post racial America now. A half black man is going to be our president. That is proof enough that America does not discriminate against blacks. No longer will lazy, uneducated, and undeserving blacks be allowed to get a free ride by a dumbed down system that used to cater to their needs. Anyone can succeed regardless of race. No more excuses black folks! Put your nose to the grind stone like the rest of us.

Please also read this article about a similar lawsuit in New Haven, Connecticut. Its about time whites started standing up for what is right!