Diversity Gone Wild: Lifeguards Who Can't Swim

Started by Stallywood, Apr 05, 2013, 12:02 PM

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Stallywood

Like the man says: enjoy the decline......

Excerpted from JUDICIAL WATCH:       http://patdollard.com/2013/04/affirmative-action-gone-wild-phoenix-recruits-minority-lifeguards-even-if-they-cant-swim/

In a staggering case of affirmative action gone wild, officials in a major U.S. city are actually recruiting minorities to be lifeguards at public pools even if they're not good swimmers. It's all in the name of diversity.

You can't make this stuff up. It's a real-life story out of Phoenix, the capitol of Arizona and the nation's sixth-largest city. It has more than 1.4 million residents and, among its official mottos is "value and respect" of diversity. This means "more than gender and race," according to the city's official website. It also encompasses "uniqueness and individuality" and embracing differences. "We put this belief into action to provide effective services to our diverse community."

Evidently officials are willing to compromise those "effective services" at 29 public swimming pools spread throughout the city. To diversify the lifeguard force, Phoenix will spend thousands of dollars to recruit minorities even if they're not strong swimmers, according to an official quoted in a news report. Blacks, Latinos and Asians who may not necessarily qualify can still get hired, says the city official who adds that "we will work with you in your swimming abilities."

There's a good reason the city is hiring lifeguards that can't swim. Public pools are largely used by Latino and African-American kids, but most of the lifeguards are white and this creates a huge problem. "The kids in the pool are all either Hispanic or black or whatever, and every lifeguard is white and we don't like that," says a Phoenix official quoted in the story. She added that "the kids don't relate; there's language issues."

How did it ever come to this? Competitive swimming is a sport dominated by whites. In fact, studies have found that blacks and Hispanics have lower swimming proficiency compared to whites. In Phoenix public pool lifeguards have traditionally come from "more affluent parts of town" where schools have swim teams. That means virtually no minorities, so the city launched this special program to recruit some.

Though this is a local effort in one city, it's also part of a national trend to boost the minority workforce at whatever cost. Under President Obama we have seen a lot of this at the federal level through a variety of specially-designed government programs that give ethnic minorities special treatment at all federal agencies as well as medical and agricultural fields, among others.

Earlier this year the administration made history by hiring the government's first "Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity" to mastermind a multi-million-dollar effort that boosts the number of minorities in biomedical research and slashes discrimination in the federal grant process. The effort was initially launched last year after a government-sanctioned study uncovered a "disturbing and disheartening" lack of racial diversity in the field.

Before that the administration created a new office help build a "diverse and inclusive workforce" at all federal agencies and Obama appointed a "Diversity Czar" at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to help advance the goal of greater inclusion and diversity in government programs. Who could forget the race and gender employment quotas required at private financial institutions under Obama's financial reform measure (known as the Dodd-Frank bill) to overhaul Wall Street? It's all in the name of diversity.
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Apparently it is OK if black and Latino children drown as long as they are tended to by people of their own race. Like Archie Bunker refusing a blood transfusion from a black man, except that in Archie's case it was racism, and in this case it is Affirmative Action. I hope the kids appreciate it.
Affirmative Action: The federal government takes your job away from you and gives it to a woman. Then she sneers at you because you are unemployed.

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All bold mine.

Like Archie Bunker refusing a blood transfusion from a black man, except that in Archie's case it was racism, and in this case it is Affirmative Action. I hope the kids appreciate it.


{Sarc}noted.   
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There's a good reason the city is hiring lifeguards that can't swim. Public pools are largely used by Latino and African-American kids, but most of the lifeguards are white and this creates a huge problem. "The kids in the pool are all either Hispanic or black or whatever, and every lifeguard is white and we don't like that,"  says a (n unnamed)Phoenix official quoted in the story.

I wonder where Hispanic (or was it Latino?) and Black "kids" learned that?
I wonder why such an "opinion" is allowed to enter the "conversation"?
Am I to assume (a unnamed)Phoenix official feeeeels that forced "diversity", as well as assimilation, is BAD, if it doesn't promote....you know....the RIGHT folks?


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She added that "the kids don't relate; there's language issues."


Don't know if it's actually what she said, or sloppy reportage/ editing, but THIS sort of put the "opinion" of a (n unnamed)Phoenix official in perspective for me. While neither named nor identified here as elected (hopefully not) or appointed, it clearly doesn't matter. I'd like to see her CV/Resume.

If one were to examine the original SCOTUS referance to "Affirmative Action", I have no
problem recognising it's "re-interpretation, through repeated mis/disingenous "usage", as codespeak, dog whistle, and further subsequent justification of racist bigotry against the demographic majority of (specifically) hetrosexual white male taxpayers.
"Conservitive" hetrosexual females, and any other like minded folk of demographic minority "status", seem to be consistantly denied  "Affirmative Action" dog tags
in favor of  an apostates large red letter "A" (or Star of David for that matter) permanantly sewn to their outermost clothing.

Of COURSE it's "diversity" gone wild. Just like gun "control", domestic "violence", workplace "harassment", "Republican", or "Democrat".

Just wait two weeks until  "Oh crap, I didn't mean for ME..." NIMBY "activists" make up new goal posts for the respective AP/ NBC/Executive Branch  "style books".  Diversity and Affirmative Action will be supplanted by some Newspeak battlecry, equally ( even MORE "ironically") Orwellian.

Does Affirmitive Action "promote" Equality for aRight to Choose based on Disparate Impact?

No, really. Lifeguards, ...that can't?
It brings to mind an "appointed" public servant that ultimately sluffs off one of those theoretical four-in-the-morning phone calls, and then  gets bitchy and obtuse when their (and their immediate supervisor's) actual competance is called on the carpet for the real thing.           









LSBeene

Someone else caught this before me :

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"The kids in the pool are all either Hispanic or black or whatever, and every lifeguard is white and we don't like that," says a Phoenix official quoted in the story. She added that "the kids don't relate; there's language issues."  


If these were white kids saying the same about black or hispanic kids ... they'd be told to get over their racism and how, once identified, theyd' be targeted for re-education.

Steven
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CaptDMO




If these were white kids saying the same about black or hispanic kids ...
Or...say...sporting USA, or American flag attire, to American public schools flying a Mexican flag, or simply on the Fifth of May...
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they'd be told to get over their racism and how, once identified, theyd' be targeted for re-education.

Steven

Because... you know... they're, um....bullies.

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