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Posted on: May 22nd, 2007
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“The mostly white Fire Department of New York discouraged racial diversity by using recruitment exams that inadvertently discriminated against blacks and Hispanics, the U.S. Department of Justice charged in a civil rights lawsuit.
The complaint filed Monday alleges that the Fire Department administered exams in 1999 and 2002 that, while not purposely or obviously racist, were littered with college preparatory-like questions that do not test an applicants ability to fight fires.”
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