Racial Discrimination in Connecticut

The idiots on the left think that they can excuse a really asinine idea by giving it a nice-sounding name like 'affirmative action'. This is what is happening in Connecticut with the New Haven fire department:

NEW HAVEN — Frank Ricci has been a firefighter here for 11 years, and he would do just about anything to advance to lieutenant.

The last time the city offered a promotional exam, he said in a sworn statement, he gave up a second job and studied up to 13 hours a day. Mr. Ricci, who is dyslexic, paid an acquaintance more than $1,000 to read textbooks onto audiotapes. He made flashcards, took practice tests, worked with a study group and participated in mock interviews.
Mr. Ricci did well, he said, coming in sixth among the 77 candidates who took the exam. But the city threw out the test, because none of the 19 African-American firefighters who took it qualified for promotion. That decision prompted Mr. Ricci and 17 other white firefighters, including one Hispanic, to sue the city, alleging racial discrimination.
Their case, which will be argued before the Supreme Court on April 22, is the Roberts court’s first major confrontation with claims of racial discrimination in employment and will require the justices to choose between conflicting conceptions of the government’s role in ensuring fair treatment regardless of race.

I have seen this racist crap rears its ugly head in academia many times. Blacks and hispanics are given preference over whites in admission to graduate programs, hiring of faculty, and tenure and promotion decisions. Often, the preference is given to foreign blacks and hispanics who come from privileged backgrounds in their home countries, and are selected over American whites, many of whom come from low income families.

If any lefties who support 'affirmative action' are reading this. Please answer this question: If the USA is such an awful place for minorities, why do so many foreign blacks and hispanics want to come here? Whites in America are being pushed to the end of a longer and longer line.