{"id":1408,"date":"2009-12-03T06:35:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T06:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2009-12-03T06:35:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T06:35:24","slug":"score_one_for_the_good_guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1408","title":{"rendered":"Score One For The Good Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Tuesday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhregister.com\/articles\/2009\/12\/01\/news\/doc4b1571ef3b1b9626869946.txt\">New Haven Register<\/a>, the fourteen New Haven firefighters, who were denied promotion in 2003 due to a racial quota system, will be promoted.&nbsp; A formal promotion ceremony is scheduled for December 10th.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Last week the&nbsp;Civil Service Commission, in a unanimous vote, certified two 2003 promotional lists for fire captain and lieutenant, clearing the way for the city to present the lists to the fire commission.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The victory here is for people who believe that people should be promoted on merit regardless of the color of their skin.&nbsp; If a minority is not doing well on a specific test, spend some time teaching the members of that minority what they need to know in order to be promoted, don&#8217;t penalize the people who scored well on the test.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Luther King, Jr., wanted color blindness&#8211;not color preference.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Tuesday&#8217;s New Haven Register, the fourteen New Haven firefighters, who were denied promotion in 2003 due to a racial quota system, will be promoted.&nbsp; A formal promotion ceremony is scheduled for December 10th.&nbsp; Last week the&nbsp;Civil Service Commission, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1408\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}