UCLA Professor: Too Many White Male Firefighters Out There

[EvilCat Breath]

There have been black firefighters. But the commanders have to keep saying "Ti'chanda, we stop fires we don't start them."

 

[Dan Stubbs]

In an article printed in the Harvard Business Review, a UCLA professor argued that there are too many white male firefighters in America. Corinne Bendersky, Professor of Management and Organizations at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, who does research on “gender bias,” posited “black firefighters still face challenges with social exclusion and explicit racism,” and “firefighters tend to default to a reductive set of traits (physical strength evaluated through strict fitness tests, for example) that serve to maintain white men’s dominance in the fire service.”

Bendersky noted that 96% of career firefighters are men, and 82% are white. She claims, “Many fire departments recognize that their lack of diversity as a problem and say they’re committed to increasing racial and gender diversity.” She cites research she has done that prompted her to write, “when the topic of female firefighters came up, the importance of physical strength was consistently and spontaneously invoked to justify the relative absence of women in the fire service, but the importance of compassion (a female-stereotyped trait) was rarely, if ever, brought up to argue for bringing more women into the profession.”

UCLA Professor: Too Many White Male Firefighters Out There

The left keep saying it is conservatives that divides the country.

Seems that there are to many White Professors who are to old to teach.

 

[harmonica]

what a true dumbass and RACIST
....remember years ago they said some firefighter's exams were biased against blacks??!!!!!!!?? very dumbshit
1. blacks are about 13% of the population
2. they graduate high school at lower levels = less qualify for college = less are qualified for technical jobs
= not many are/CAN be qualified

here is some VERY dumbshit:

The two tests, administered in 1999 and 2002, involve dozens of multiple-choice questions that appear to evaluate reading comprehension, the ability to look at buildings from one angle and visualize them from others, and specific knowledge about things like in what order firefighters should put on their gear in an alarm.

But lawyers for the Vulcan Society, an organization of black firefighters that is part of the lawsuit, argued successfully that those sorts of questions could not measure the skills necessary to become a good firefighter.

etc etc
I can clearly see why they graduate at lower levels !
The Fire Dept. Tests That Were Found to Discriminate

..just like MANY other ''racial'' [ hahahahha ] problems, there is NOTHING that proves they are racial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...when there is a fire, you need/want someone who knows what they are doing--this is nothing like making a burger/assembling a TV/etc

 

[harmonica]

in general, most women cannot do the same things physically as men can
plain and simple fact

 

[Natural Citizen]

Well, maybe the white firefighters show up to the fire in time?

 

[MindWars]

Oh well lets hope the bastards house catches fire and the fire fighters says sorry i'm too white to put your fire out.

Assholes like this deserve the Karma coming for them .

 

[MindWars]

I have to wonder, is this "equality" shit going to get to the point where like women are /forced/ to be engineers or blacks are /forced/ to be firemen? Is that where we are ultimately headed?

Hopefully its headed to the point you dont get to be a firefighter just because you are a white boy and part of the good ole white boys club.

Hopefully they fight back and when they see racist assholes who say what this guy did and those who agree with the prick, hopefully the firemen say FK YOU i'm to white now move a long and watch your home burn bitch cause i'm too white bahahah.

That's exactly what you retarded racist assholes are bringing on all by yourselves but yet you all are so fkn stupid you blame it on the whites who tries helping you pos racist fks.

The generations past wants to puke over the way you assholes are UN DOING all . they died for, and shed blood for.....

you ignorant pukes are spitting in the faces of your own ancestors!! Someday maybe you assholes will get to watch your own graves being spit on by the very animals you raised and taught to HATE THE FREE LAND OF AMERICA......