{"id":19245,"date":"2013-06-16T15:38:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T19:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19245"},"modified":"2013-06-16T15:38:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T19:38:31","slug":"common-sense-has-left-the-equal-employment-opportunity-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19245","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense Has Left The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal<\/a> (no link–the article is subscribers only) published a story on its opinion page stating that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission<\/a> (EEOC) is filing lawsuits<\/a> against employers for doing criminal background checks<\/a> on potential employees. The EEOC is calling the background checks for criminal activity<\/a> racist<\/a> because blacks have higher conviction rates than whiles, and therefore criminal checks discriminate against blacks. Therefore, as an employer, you no longer have the right to screen for honest employees.<\/p>\n

Criminal background checks are legal and have been a part of the hiring process for years–just as checking the references given by a job applicant<\/a> is both legal and a good idea.<\/p>\n

The article states:<\/p>\n

The EEOC suit is part of the Administration’s larger effort to redefine racism in America<\/a> by using statistics, rather than individual intent or evidence. The Justice<\/a> and Housing Departments have rewritten their rules and punished banks and counties like Westchester<\/a>, N.Y., based on disparate statistical measures of lending and zoning. The EEOC signaled its plans in April last year when ti rewrote its enforcement strategy, declaring that “an employer’s evidence of a racially balanced workforce will not be enough to disprove disparate impact<\/a>.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is one thing we need to remember here. No amount of reverse racism can ever make up for the racism that has happened in the past. All this racism that is statistically established will only create more divides and separations between people. Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a>, had it right when he called for a ‘color blind’ society. That is the only real answer to discrimination.<\/p>\n

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