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The New York Times, unsurprisingly, has thrown out a sob piece regarding the Ricci decision to prohibit government racism.  The poor local governments simply don’t know what to do.  How can they pander to leftist identity groups if they aren’t allowed to make racist, anti-white decisions? First I should dispel some falsehoods:

With the court’s ruling making it harder for cities and other employers to throw out tests they conclude are unfair, employers are expected to work harder to make sure their written tests — indeed their entire selection process — are fair.

This is a lie.  The New Haven test was not demonstrated to be unfair.  No specific question was determined to be racist in any way.   Rather it was concluded that, merely because they did not meet some racial quota, the results could be disregarded.  Any claim that the test was racist just because no black candidates scored high enough to earn promotion is based on faulty logic.

In fact, the city did work very hard to ensure “the entire selection process” was fair.  What some people can’t seem to get through their thick skulls is that a fair process does not guarantee, or even make more likely, equally distributed success.  Unequal distributions, then, are not evidence of unfair processes.

But on with the crying:

“We don’t see clear, bright-line guidance here,” said Lars Etzkorn, a program director with the National League of Cities. “This is going to be good for employment lawyers.”

Really? No clear guidance?  For the racially obsessed, let me make it real simple.  This is advice any local government idiot can follow. Are you ready? Ok, here it is:

Disregard all irrelevancies like race or sex and hire or promote the most qualified candidates!

That bright enough for you?

race issues Ricci et al. v. Destefano et al.