Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Every day a new surprise. As actual racial discrimination against minorities recedes, and "reverse" discrimination and non-merit based decision making becomes an increasing problem, we are used to left-leaning establishment Jewish organizations being left behind with aging and increasingly obsolete reactionary positions. Yet the ADL was on the right side of the Ricci case: ADL Welcomes Supreme Court Decision in Ricci Firefighters Case
The Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano is a welcome reaffirmation that the government must have a strong basis in evidence to support any race-based decision.
This decision properly forecloses many instances of governmental race-based decision making, particularly those where government unilaterally seeks to correct what it sees as racial injustice for one group while unfairly burdening another.
We are pleased that in making its decision, the Court clearly reaffirmed the central role of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, a fundamental law that ensures that America's workplaces will remain free of racial discrimination and that an employee's race will never be a barrier to opportunity...
