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You know something, I have heard enough about this.

Has anyone taken a look at the exam? Has anyone been able to point out WHAT things in there would somehow be magically known by a white man and not a black man?

Is there something I am missing here? From what I have seen, the only things not known between races is usually cultural, not academic, ESPECIALLY once exposed to the professional field and then examined on it in areas concerning it.

And although I respect Ginsberg, simply siting the lack of minority contribution to the forces officers may be a sign of discrimination, or it may be a sign of the lack of qualified applicants in that particular geographic area within that demographic. There may be a shortage of qualified minorities for those positions based on poor education in certain neighborhoods and the like, but since when are we obligated to get unqualified workers based on prior discrimination.

"OK, you never learned how to do this-and-that because of the poor public schools in your area when you grew up, but we will ignore what you don't know because of this, even if it matters in the performance of your position".

I think these candidates that DID NOT pass should be offered review courses to study for the test, and have them try again another time.

Seems to me everyone is focusing on race rather than academics. If these guys passed the test but were not promoted, we would have a case, but not like this.


Not until someone points out how this test could be discriminatory and how the areas that were not known by the failing examinees would NOT be pertinent to the performance of their duties.