Justice Dept. sues South Dakota Dept. of Social Services for racial discrimination

[frogmarch]

from the U.S. Department of Justice website:

Excerpt:

According to the complaint, in October 2010, Cedric Goodman, a Native American with supervisory experience as a social worker, as well as several other well-qualified Native Americans, applied for an Employment Specialist position at DSS’s Pine Ridge Office. The complaint alleges that after interviewing Goodman and the other Native American candidates who met the employer’s objective job qualifications, DSS removed the vacancy and hired no one. The next day, however, DSS reopened the position and ultimately selected a white applicant with inferior qualifications and no similar work experience. The complaint alleges that DSS discriminated against Goodman and other similarly-situated Native American applicants based on their race.

In addition, the complaint alleges that denying Goodman’s application was part of a pattern or practice of race discrimination by DSS, where the agency repeatedly removed job postings and used subjective, arbitrary hiring practices to reject qualified Native American applicants for Specialist positions.


http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-south-dakota-state-agency-discrimination-against-native-american-job

Good. Something is finally happening. It's about time.

[Shandris]

1. That there are even still people left who hate Native Americans for any reason...

...truly mystifies me. I mean, misguided and stupid as it is I at least understand the (dysfunctional) mindset behind hating someone as a categorical group that causes frictions today (a common one gamers hear is about Brazilians, for instance), but how can you even marginally justify hating a group that hasn't done a thing (in a conflict/political way) for 150 years?!?

I just don't get it.

[frogmarch]

2. I don't either.

The case involves the Dept. of Social Services in Pine Ridge, which is on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

I hope heads roll - figuratively speaking, of course.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Native hatred runs deep in South Dakota.

Now with the Native Casino's being a real economic threat to the Caucasian Fundie power brokers,the use of every type of suppression of the Natives is in full swing. You would think it was the 1960's all over again. Then what do you expect from a Tea Billie run State .