I lived not too awfully far away from New Orleans from 1976 until I got married in 1986. I’ve also read a lot of historical material about New Orleans including its rather colorful political history. And I can say with certainty that New Orleans has some of the most politically corrupt politicians in the United States. They basically give Cook County, Illinois, Boston and NYC a run for their money each and every year. It’s a dubious title sad to say, but corruption in New Orleans and the surrounding region has been going on for so long that it’s just accepted as a way of life and is so entrenched that no one person or organization will ever clean it up.

That’s just the way it’s been, the way it is and sadly the way it will probably be.

Granted, some stretches of years are better than others, but it’s usually after something so bad has happened. Take the major police corruption trials from several years ago. For a time, the NOPD cleaned up its act, but it’s now headed towards the same deplorable situation it found itself in all those years ago when several police officers were found guilty on murder-for-hire charges.

So it’s really no surprise that Eddie Jordan did what he did. And it won’t be any surprise if not one dime is ever paid out from the NO DA’s office.

It’s a mess down in the Crescent City and not all of it was caused by Hurricane Katrina.

This type of stuff is a lot more common than most people think.

Most White people I know just don’t want to bother with civil rights lawsuits, because the cards are really stacked against them.

Years ago, as a White anesthesiologist, I had a bad outcome with a Black boy.

My attorney (Black man)told me that, with a Black victim, I would likely lose in a civil trial. They settled out of court.

PS – It’s ironic when I hear “the Poor” (disporportionately Black in the cities) complain about high medical costs. But malpractice settlements like this only add to the cost.

Montie might I suggest you pick up a book by Shelby Steele called “White Guilt” “How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era”.

It is a great book and very informative.
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Eddie Jordan, New Orleans’ District Attorney, has been ordered to pay 3.58 million dollars as a result of a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by several former employees. A federal judge has ruled that Jordan’s admini…

The obvious point with your stats is this:

NO WHITE MAN OR WOMAN WOULD WANT TO FILE THIS TYPE OF CLAIM.

Why? Because black liberals are conditioned to regard such claims as inherently racist. Do you think they want to deal with the potential media blitz or potentially being ostracized?

Furthermore, using your previous population stats, examine your claims data in proportion, and also examine the overall history of the agency which reviews these claims (Civil Rights Commission and EEOC).

Everything needs to be looked at in proportion.

100 claims out of 200 million substantiated.

OK, how many claims of blakcs were substantiated? Versus Asians, Hispanics, Eskimoes, etc…

The Civil Rights Act (which the EEOC doesnt seem to get) was supposed to be interpreted for all races, not just blacks.

The last Department of Labor analysis on the subject found that fewer than 100 out of 3,000 discrimination cases filed involved reverse discrimination, and in only six cases were such claims substantiated.

Where did you come up with those percentages? Can you back them up? Perhaps reverse discrimination complaints garner more publicity because of the novelty. Then again…

I just watched a news item over the weekend involving a Black Mayor who had fired 2 White police officers for minor infractions. The Police Chief was outraged, and said he believed it was a race based decision on the part of the Mayor, and further stated that several of his Black officers had committed far worse infractions and only been given a slap on the wrist by that same Mayor. Incidentally, the Police Chief is Black.

The Mayor denied any racism in her decision making process, but the Police Chief, the officers, and of course, the officer’s lawyers, see it otherwise.

We also have some internal strife over reverse discrimination policies locally, which has been making the local news, so maybe it’s just that I’ve been exposed to so much of it lately, not only on the news, but here at “La Shawn Barber’s Corner”.

What I have seen lately though is somewhat alarming. In many of these cases, Blacks, who have obtained positions of power, exercise reverse discrimination as though it is their RIGHT to do so (just as Whites did for many years). The thing is, two wrongs don’t make a right and NEVER WILL. It will just be more of the same old stuff that frankly, I wish we could just get over.

Despite what you may observe on the Internet, from a statistical standpoint, around 5% of discrimination claims come from whites claiming “reverse discrimination” and around 6 or 7% of those are substantiated. So while unfortunate situations like this happen, they are far from the preponderance.