Once again, it is SOOOO easy to make the racial bean counters look like utter fools. This time, John Rosenberg notes how The Contra Costa Times (CA) laments the "underrepresentation of black lawyers in California":
"We would like to have a pool of lawyers that reflects our mission and our community," said [Contra Costa County head public defender David] Coleman, who is African-American. The minority shortage "generates lawyers who don't look like their clients and who don't look like the community."
Rosenberg rightly mocks: "While they’re at it, perhaps the ABA could also require fat/thin/tall/short/ugly/pretty/disabled/etc. and other appearance-related 'diversity' requirements."
But I liked especially the comment made by "Laura." She says
Suppose that a black family wanted to move into a white neighborhood and the realtor told them that they didn't look like the people in the other houses? Suppose the realtor steered them toward neighborhoods where the people looked like them? Well, the realtor would have a lawsuit on his hands, and rightly so.
Exactly. So is excised another piece of the nonsense that one has to "be one" to be offered legal advice, to be educated, to be operated on ... etc.
Also along these same lines courtesy of a different post at Discriminations, a quote from Lee-Ann Gomes, director of social work in Norwich (CT) Human Services:
"Minorities, I think, for whatever reasons, still have a problem getting jobs and holding on to those jobs," Gomes said. "Absolutely it's disproportionate for minorities. I think it's atrocious sometimes."Gomes said people talk about hiring more minorities, but are so used to hiring people like themselves, they rarely increase their minority work force.
But they're just utilizing racialist bean counter "logic," are they not? After all, they "need" people "like themselves," that's why they hire so. Haven't we constantly been told this is OK?
OK only for the "right" skin tone.
Is the implication (in Contra Costa anyway) that a black jury would find against a black plaintiff or defendant because he had a white lawyer? Or is it that the public defender's office should hire more black lawyers because most of the criminals are black? Sounds pretty rascist to me either way. I haven't been in a courtroom since I had jury duty, but all the cop shows on TV have Jewish public defenders, maybe this is just black anti-Semitism.
Posted by: G Rex at February 22, 2006 04:30 PMNo offense but I suspect an opthalmologist would tell you these blotto color combinations you came up with are a form of torture developed by the CIA. I am serious- I am finding it hard to stay focused when reading the blue areas.
Posted by: AJ Lynch at February 24, 2006 02:53 PM