OBAMA PUSHES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION!! While the Supreme Court rolls back the Voting Rights Act of 1965, condemning it as an unnecessary vestige of the civil-rights era, President Obama is acting as if America were still in the mid-’60s. His race-obsessed administration is bringing racial preferences and affirmative action back with a vengeance. And it’s doing so outside the legislative process, largely behind the scenes, through executive orders, regulations and prosecutions, effectively expanding existing civilrights law. Consider the following race-based policy moves, which have gone largely unreported by the major media—and unnoticed by the general public (which polls show overwhelming oppose racial quotas in college and hiring and other favoritism): To boost minority hiring, the eeoc recently warned employers they could be considered guilty of “race discrimination if they choose law-abiding applicants over applicants with criminal convictions.” The predictable result: hiring quotas for felons. At the same time, the Labor Department is warning federal contractors to refrain from asking employees about felonies. It’s also demanding they modify their hiring policies to favor minorities. The agency also advised that all fdic-insured banks must develop and implement an “affirmative action program” for hiring. The administration, moreover, has adopted an interagency “Policy Statement on Discrimination in Lending” that makes it “permissible” (and strongly advisable) for banks to apply more favorable lending terms for minority borrowers “to address past discrimination.” It has also formalized the use of a lower standard of proof—“disparate impact” liability—for enforcing antidiscrimination laws in housing and lending. Now, just about any race-neutral policy or practice— from mortgage underwriting standards to credit scoring to criminal background checks—can be deemed racist if it tends to result in adverse outcomes for blacks or Latinos. … Thanks to a flurry of disparate-impact suits, the Justice Department has forced the nation’s largest home lenders— including Wells Fargo, Bank of America and SunTrust—to adopt minority-friendly lending policies and even open new branches in depressed areas with large minority populations. Fearing prosecution, the entire mortgage industry is adopting similar policies. In addition, the department has extracted from these and other bank defendants more than $600 million in loan set-asides and other cash payouts for yet-to-be identified “victims” of credit discrimination. Meantime, Obama’s new credit watchdog agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is subjecting car lenders to the same racial “effects test” while investigating racial bias at Equifax, Experian, TransUnion and other consumer credit reporting agencies. … At the same time, the Education Department is investigating some 20 school districts across the U.S. for allegedly racist disciplinary policies that have a “disparate impact” on black students. Faced with the threat of reduced federal funding, some districts already have set caps on the number of blacks suspended for violent behavior. The department’s diversity cops are also cracking down on selective high schools in New York and elsewhere for using entrance exams that have a “disparate impact” on African-American students. … Make no mistake: These race-based policies are directed from the president and his Cabinet, and they will only intensify over the next few years. “The question is not does (affirmative action) end, but when does it begin?” Attorney General Eric Holder recently told his alma mater, Columbia University. “When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?” … The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. Yet this president is injecting race into just about every decision made in our merit-based society.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:48:32 +0000
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