by Peter Morrison

What in the world is going on in New Orleans, Mayor Ray Nagin's "chocolate city?"

It was one of our own cities here in Texas, Houston, which took the bulk of the diaspora of New Orleanians in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 that displaced hundreds of thousands of former, predominantly black, Big Easy residents. Now, a story that broke last week out of New Orleans - of course during the Thanksgiving holiday when most people aren't paying attention to the news - shows just how "chocolate" of a city former government officials were bent on making New Orleans.

Elected in 2003 to much fanfare as the city's first African-American district attorney, Eddie Jordan, who grew up in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, promptly ordered the firing of a plethora of white employees and replaced almost all of them with black employees.

Douglas McCollam of The Wall Street Journal wrote, "...after about two months in office, Mr. Jordan altered the racial composition of the staff, going to 27 whites and 130 blacks from 77 whites and 56 blacks. Among the 56 staffers who were fired, 53 were white, two were black, and one was Hispanic. Among the 20 case investigators fired (many retired police detectives), all were white."

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported, "Of 56 total dismissals, 53 of the employees were white. Within six months of his administration, Jordan had hired 68 people, 92 percent of them African-American. Critics further have suggested that the firings had the effect of stripping the office of institutional knowledge and experienced talent, throwing its daily management into confusion and setting off a trend of poor working conditions and chronic turnover." In a city about to undergo the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the crime wave that would follow, Jordan's office purge would have direct consequences for the residents in the area.

In May of 2005, a $3.5 million wrongful termination judgment was handed down in favor of 35 white employees and one Hispanic employee.

When challenged in court, Jordan claimed the firings were merely "random," with no intentional racial component. They were, he said, part of the standard turnover officials are entitled to make under the patronage system. Apparently firing 95% white employees and then hiring 92% black employees is just randomness for a New Orleans District Attorney. If he can't see a racial component in those numbers, I wonder how on earth he could possibly be expected to identify a racially motivated hate crime.

Thankfully in 2005, a federal jury disagreed with him, finding that the workers had been fired solely because of their race, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The jury awarded them close to $2 million, which ballooned with interest and attorneys' fees to about $3.5 million -- more than the DA's annual budget.

It wasn't until October 30th of this year that Jordan finally resigned from his position, after constant pressure from City Council members, the new Republican governor of Louisiana and the 53 white employees he fired.
"I am resigning not because I am a quitter, but because I honestly believe this painful act will prevent further disruption of the district attorney's office," said Jordan. The irony is amazing. He fires 40% of his employees, causing enormous disruptions to his office's operations, and then eventually resigns with the excuse that it is to avoid "further disruption."

Mary Foster, a reporter for the Associated Press, reported, "Under the agreement outlined at a conference, the city will pay about one third of the judgment, or more than $1.1 million. The state will pay about $1.6 million, subject to approval by a legislative committee later this year. The District Attorney's Office, which already has paid $300,000, will pay $300,000 more."

So, for Jordan's malfeasance and duplicitous action, the taxpayers of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana, already in a major financial crisis - not to mention under an extreme crime wave - will have to find a way to compensate the 36 individuals that were racially discriminated against. Jordan's bid to further ingrain the idea of the "chocolate city" appears to have backfired mightily.

That said, it would be interesting to play the role-reversal game, where one would point out the obvious: Had this been a white DA who fired 53 minority employees and hired virtually all white employees in their place, then that DA would be compared in the media as the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, and attacked 24/7 by the mainstream media.

But at this point, stories of rampant discrimination by minority executives in firing whites and hiring fellow minorities have become so commonplace that the story of Jordan and New Orleans seems unremarkable, perhaps just another indicator of life in the 21st century United States of America.

A 2002 column by Paul Craig Roberts illustrates the depths of discrimination whites -particularly white males - face. Sadly, this is not just at the hands of renegade DAs like Jordan in New Orleans, but in every facet of the job game, primarily in the government sector.

Using statistics from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management: "Annual Report to Congress, Federal Equal Opportunity Recruitment Program, Fiscal Year 2000," which was released in April 2002, Dr. Roberts reports some astonishing figures.

Roberts writes, "In the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission blacks comprise 46.4 percent of the employees. The "affirmative action" or racial quota target for proportional representation (percent in Relevant Civilian Labor Force) for the EEOC is 6.4 percent black employees.

Blacks are thus overrepresented in EEOC employment by 625 percent!

And the EEOC is the federal agency that is supposed to enforce equal employment opportunity. If they are supposed to be watching for discrimination, I want to know, "Who is watching the watchers?"

Blacks are overrepresented in the National Science Foundation by 504.7 %; in the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. by 538.7%; in the Securities and Exchange Commission by 452.1%; in the Smithsonian Institution by 452.1%, in the Federal Communications Commission by 370.1%; in the Social Security Administration by 263.5%; in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission by 375%; in the Office of Personnel Management by 286.7%; and so on.

In cabinet departments, blacks are overrepresented in Department of Education employment by 464.7%; in Department of Labor by 254%; in HUD by 383%; in Treasury by 176%; in Department of Justice by 106%; in Department of State by 165%; and so on."

How many whites have been fired or passed over to create these staggering figures, or how many corrupt managers, like Jordan, have ensured that these figures look this way?

Roberts ends his piece by writing, "Why did the white majority allow themselves to be stripped of the equal protection clause of the Constitution? Why do whites remain loyal to the political parties that took away their rights?

"What is the future for whites in a political system where both political parties pander to third world immigrants and support racial privileges for minorities? Having lost equal protection of law, what will whites lose next?"

In the light of this New Orleans scandal and the seemingly countless scandals in police departments, fire departments and government offices that occur when whites are passed over or targeted in a wholesale firing, it is vital to continue to point out these gross forms of blatant discrimination.

These stories may seem unremarkable because of their ubiquity, but if we have any hope of ever restoring order and righting the many wrongs that are working to sink the great ship known as the United States of America, then we must be prepared to confront these Black Supremacists head on. For that is what they are.

In any public or private enterprise, you should surround yourself with the most competent people, regardless of color. You want efficiency, productivity and accountability.

What Jordan did in New Orleans is inexcusable, and is a byproduct of the multicultural brand of socialism being shoved down our throats.

When you see something like this occur in your own community, don't just ignore it and say to yourself, "That's just the way it is." The 35 white and 1 Hispanic victims of racial discrimination fought back and found a delayed justice in winning their settlement. Each of us has a duty to fight back against these racially motivated crimes, even when it's someone else involved, because the next time you might be the victim.

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