European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse The race to erase government quotas Mark e. Jaworowski in 1964, when Congress passed the original civil rights act its sponsors emphatically argued that it would not be used to justify racial quota systems. Title Vii of this Law explicitly forbids the use of quotas based on race and skin color. However in 1971 the supreme court in effect passed a new Law. In Griggs is. Duke Power company it ruled that employers could be found guilty of racial discrimination if the ethnic composition of their work Force did not exactly match the ethnic composition of the local population. This led to an imposition of racial quotas on schools factories and offices which has also come to pervade hiring and promotion practices in the Federal government and yes a even our army. But before we examine the army a promotion system lets see How our government practices systematic discrimination against its own citizens. A last june the Washington Post reported the Fri is reserving one Quarter of the spots in each new class of agents for minorities and another Quarter for women. In selecting applicants the Agency applies different standards to different racial groups. Whites and asians must tally a combined interview test. Score of 80. When i applied for employment there in 1987,1 scored a 78 and was turned Down Exa gents in confirming the Post Story claimed that minorities have to make Only a 65 in order to be eligible for employment. A at the department of state according to an article by James Workman in the new Republic Quot gender nor Ming is established practice. By weighing higher those portions where women do better state gives them Quot a significant advantage Over men in the testing hiring and assignment of foreign service state also dropped the passing Grade in English for minorities Only from 70 to the mid-50s, a a policy statement from the Epa reveals that a the Agency is to increase the representation of women and minorities at All Levels of its work Force. When under representation exists in managerial and supervisory positions at least 52 percent of placement opportunities will be directed to minorities and the defenders of these quotas claim that such measures Are necessary to offset the effects of discrimination and cultural Bias in the hiring tests. Yet asians usually outscore Whites and everyone else they believe if the constitutional rights of some Whites Are violated so be it. That a the Price you pay after All for unfortunately the army seers to be going along with this Type of reasoning. According to a recent commentary in army times by Brian Mitchell army promotion boards Are instructed to promote by ethnic numbers. In other words if 20 percent of those considered for promotion Are hispanic then 20 percent of those selected will be from that ethnic category. This sounds benign a in a perfect world each Job category should have diverse workers a but in effect it sets up a system of group entitlement at the expense of Merit. Mitchell Sites the investigative efforts of former jag lawyer Donovan Bigelow who reviewed the army a promotion system and discovered How the a Era nest of rigid numerical quotas Are used to promote soldiers. Two colonels and a sergeant major at the total army personnel come tape in Virginia explained to him that a promotion Board will pass Over White male soldiers in favor of women and minorities ranked lower on the boards own order of Merit list Oil in order to meet the prescribed tape then covers up this dirty work by destroying the original Oil. Now this would seem to be in violation of the civil rights act of 1964. But in today a politically Correct America quotas Arentt quotas a they re and everyone is entitled to Protection under the civil rights act except the White male. And whatever he has to say against affirmative action is a racist and what we need is a promotion system that takes into account Only a soldiers social Security number and performance record. This would guarantee promotions based on Merit a and nothing else. Official photos and any references to race and gender should be purged from the personal file. Soldiers interested in ending this reverse discrimination need president Bush a this is an election year a and urge him to sign an executive directive Banning racial quotas. He can do this without any congressional approval if he continues however to allow the army and the rest of the government to use race and gender As promotion criteria the ones with the most to gain will not be those who Benefit from them today. The big winners will be the future racial demagogues who can and will exploit legitimate frustration and resentment. Capt. Mark e. Jaworowsky works in Frankfurt Germany Send in your column plus a photo of yourself to be our guest sunday Magazine the stars and stripes Apo 09211 or Postrach 11 14 37, d-6100 Darmstadt 11, Germany. Opening laugh Steiner Usa up a amp a a Cut our. Choc Ltd 0 u he c i n or pc it -7t o 1995, cartoonists 4 writers Syndicate it \ i ims from the cover .4-7 reaching for the stars of Quot trek. A sidelights .8-9 Joe Bob Briggs nominates his favourites. 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