>  I especially like the last paragraph:
> 
> "One group of firefighters threatened to sue for discrimination if
> promotions were made based on the test results, and others said they
> would sue if the city ignored the results and denied promotions to
> candidates who did well."
> 
>  That is wrong in *so* many levels I cannot even count. This is what the
> world has become.

The firefighters that were denied promotion sued as a group
without knowing who had scored best on the tests. They didn't
know 100% that the firefighters with the best results were white,
all they really knew was that all the promotions went to 
black rookies, and the test had been discarded.

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