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Bob Child / AP (Left) Gary Tinney, outside his New Haven firehouse, is one of group of Black firefighters who say department discriminates against minorities.
its extension. This urgency is illustrated by the potential weight of the Ricci v. DeStefano decision on the “reverse rac ism” cases being waged in both nearby Bridgeport and New York City—where just 3 percent of the city’s 11,000 fire fighters are Black.
The civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s achieved majority sup port in the U.S. for the position that all people should have equal access to a job, public facilities, public education of equal quality, and the right to vote. The concept of affirmative action became the tool with which these ideas could actually be implemented.
Maintaining this support today means winning white workers to the realiza tion that the horrors of the capitalist system that affect all workers—unem ployment, taxes, social service cutbacks, and union busting—disproportionately affect people of color. This discrepancy can be seen in the Black infant mortal ity rate being 2.5 higher, underfunded inner city schools that are now more
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