All Your Base Are Belong to Us

It will never end. There will always be an "And Then?"

Eric "My People" Holder knows this to be the case

Eric "My People" Holder sues Jacksonville over those pesky firefighter tests, which plague Black people the nation over:

The Justice Department sued the city of Jacksonville, Florida, on Monday, claiming its use of written tests to determine promotions in the city's fire department discriminates against African-Americans. 

The lawsuit followed a more than two-year investigation examining Jacksonville's record of promoting African-Americans for the ranks of lieutenant, captain, district chief and engineer dating back to 2004.

It came after a separate lawsuit filed last year by two dozen Jacksonville firefighters challenging the city's promotional process. In the lawsuit, the firefighters alleged union officials unfairly shared exam questions with white workers but not with black workers ahead of the test. 

"This complaint should send a clear message to all public employers that employment practices that have the effect of excluding qualified candidates on account of race will not be tolerated," Thomas Perez, a U.S. assistant attorney general for civil rights, said in a statement. 

A spokesman for the Jacksonville mayor's office declined to comment.
The complaint by the Justice Department alleges the exams are "not job related for the positions in question." 

The complaint said use of the tests "has resulted in a disparate impact upon black candidates" because African-Americans pass the examinations at significantly lower rates than white candidates. 

The Justice Department said black employees who do pass the tests rarely are promoted since their scores are generally lower than white workers. 

"At best, these tests measure only a slice of what is necessary to be a supervisor, but they stand in the way of qualified African-Americans advancing in the fire department," the statement said.

Didn't the Dayton Police Department have to lower standards for Black applicants after the Department of Justice stepped in and asserted loudly, All Your Base Are Belong To Us? Yep, that was "My People" Holder.

Let's just get it over with: when will the DOJ go after property appraisers for racism and declare property value inherently racist (since property valuations are always lower in majority Black cities and counties -- tied, of course, to the school systems)?