Comments on: Supreme Court Agrees with New Haven White Firefighter http://www.chocolatecity.cc/2009/06/30/supreme-court-agrees-with-new-heaven-white-firefighter/ Arguably The Best African American Blog, Socio-economic, Justice, Politics, Fashion, Book Review, and Black Artists Blog Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:28:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: W http://www.chocolatecity.cc/2009/06/30/supreme-court-agrees-with-new-heaven-white-firefighter/comment-page-1/#comment-359 W Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:20:37 +0000 http://www.chocolatecity.cc/blog/?p=1268#comment-359 Very nice blog post. Your post highlights how the USA has punished merit. The firefighters spent much time and money preparing for this exam--which does not get graded on anything other than the correct vs. incorrect answers. The results, purely objective, determine who gets the promotion. The correlation relates to merit: those that prepared did well, those that did not prepare did not do well. If Ginsburg and the dissenters feel that New Haven was justified, how do they propose New Haven should handle such situations in the future? Should they just set a quota, despite its illegality being established years ago? -W Very nice blog post. Your post highlights how the USA has punished merit. The firefighters spent much time and money preparing for this exam–which does not get graded on anything other than the correct vs. incorrect answers. The results, purely objective, determine who gets the promotion. The correlation relates to merit: those that prepared did well, those that did not prepare did not do well.

If Ginsburg and the dissenters feel that New Haven was justified, how do they propose New Haven should handle such situations in the future? Should they just set a quota, despite its illegality being established years ago?

-W

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