{"id":784,"date":"2009-06-29T23:15:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T04:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=784"},"modified":"2009-06-30T16:28:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T21:28:53","slug":"equal-under-the-law-reguardless-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Equal Under the Law, Regardless of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that 4 Justices on the current Supreme Court can put the issue of &#8220;historical context&#8221; over the lives and livelihood of actual living citizens, is something I simply can not get my mind around. Racism is wrong no mater which way the tide is flowing.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2009\/06\/29\/the-ricci-ruling-a-victory-for-merit-over-racial-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">CATO<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the blockbuster decision we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been awaiting all term, the Court reached the correct result: The government can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make employment decisions based on race. While the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s desire to get more blacks into leadership positions at the fire department is commendable, it cannot pursue this goal by denying promotions simply because those who earned them happen to have an inconvenient skin color.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that 4 Justices on the current Supreme Court can put the issue of &#8220;historical context&#8221; over the lives and livelihood of actual living citizens, is something I simply can not get my mind around. Racism is wrong no mater which way the tide is flowing. From CATO In the blockbuster decision we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[32,30,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}