Affirmative Action

More interesting news, this in the Toledo Free Press.
U.T. prof and attorney Douglas Oliver says Jacob's action stifles open debate , that
it is hypocritical for administrators to boast of diversity while punishing those who speak out with diverse opinions.

UT: Diversity or hypocrisy?
By Douglas Oliver
Special to Toledo Free Press

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 10, 2008

Newt's speech at the American Enterprise Instiute is a hot topic on the news shows today. Barack's opening paragraph is powerful.

Taxes Are Like Drugs, Just Say NO !

Show that they cannot scare you with their BS lies and tactics. Show them who is BOSS !

VOTE NO ! VOTE NO ON ALL TAX ISSUES !

And Remember that TAXES ARE LIKE DRUGS, JUST SAY NO !!

After stonewalling a civil rights investigation for 10 months, the Finkbeiner Administration has decided to have Toledoans pay $360 an hour for outside legal counsel as the discrimination case heads to federal court.

"Toledo's African-American community is frustrated
with the city, at least one black minister is praying for the city, and
Councilman Michael Ashford says Mayor Carty Finkbeiner has a record of
discrimination.
Mr. Ashford, reacting yesterday to the finding of the Ohio Civil Rights
Commission that Mr. Finkbeiner retaliated against three black employees

THE KEY TO THE MASSA'S HOUSE
By: Bishop Stephen Ward

On January 21 members of the African-American community gathered at the Kitchen For The Poor in support of a chapter of the SCLC being formed here in Toledo. While that press conference was going on...at another MLK event, the massa issued keys to the city.

"The staff of the Ohio Civil Rights Commission
found "probable cause" that the administration of Mayor Carty
Finkbeiner discriminated against three black city officials when they
were fired last year.

BLADE STAFF
Mayor Carty Finkbeiner said today he has signed the domestic partnership legislation that will allow unmarried couples to have their relationships recognized by the city government.
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071121/BREAKINGN...

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BY JOURNAL STAFF

Veteran city police Officer Melvin Woods says police are harassing him

Mychal Bell of 'Jena 6' ordered to juvenile facilityStory Highlights
Source: Judge rules Mychal Bell violated probation for earlier juvenile convictions

Bell, 17, was freed after adult conviction for beating a classmate was overturned

Source: Bell now must spend 18 months in a juvenile facility

The teen, who is black, is accused of beating a white classmate last December

I'm glad to see Affirmative Action as worked out so well for the white guy...

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=10&year=2007&bas...

LOS ANGELES, Calif.

Mortgage-cost bias found locally; Toledo area 17th-highest in loans to blacks, study says
African-Americans in metro Toledo get more high-cost home loans than do white residents, although the proportion is down slightly from a similar study two years ago, according to a national nonprofit group.

Dwayne Morehead, who campaigned hard for Carty Finkbeiner for mayor in 2005 but later claimed racial discrimination over a job reassignment, has been fired.

Mr. Morehead, 34, was an administrative specialist with the city's Board of Community Relations at an annual salary of $45,000. He was terminated for "job abandonment," said Brian Schwartz, the mayor's spokesman.

I'm getting concerned that the discriminatory practices by the Finkbeiner Administration is going to end up a disaster for the City budget. Walgreens just got nailed for mistreating of its minority employees in the amount of $20 million dollars. Is this where Mr. Finkbeiner is headed with the Griffin, Morehead, Daugherty case.

"Article published Thursday, July 19, 2007
Finkbeiner to nominate affirmative action chief
City's benefits manager would replace fired director

Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner today is expected to nominate a permanent replacement for Perlean Griffin, who was fired in March from her job as executive director of the city's Office of Affirmative Action/Contract Compliance.

Last Fall a female employee of City of Toledo was abandoned at a construction site by three of her co-workers. Her foot became stuck in the mud and her co-workers jeered at her, took a picture of her with a cell phone camera and left her to free herself while bulldozers and other heavy equipment was whizzing around her.

The demolition contractor hired by Lucas County yesterday to tear down the Toledo Sports Arena is in hot water with the city of Toledo over his alleged effort to mislead the city about minority subcontracting.

"The three central figures in discrimination complaints against Toledo

The Blade has mentioned in articles on and off about events that happened in 1989 with little more than a sentence or two.

Now comes this;

The plot thickens...and no, you can't fire someone for just being "lazy" (in and by itself)...

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070309/NEWS16/703090...

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=local&id=5078749

This is just a shame, I'm glad Channel 13 has the balls to follow the story.