1) The Dow Jones minority journalism program has been ordered to take all references to minority from its literature and to allow students of all ethnicities into the program. A student at a high school whose sports program I once covered, Monacan High in Chesterfield County, VA, brought the suit. The organizers of the program from which she was previously barred have told her she would ?not be discriminated against on the basis of her race or because she filed the lawsuit.? Mighty big of them.
It’s about time these noxious programs were exposed. No one who can read the 14th Amendment or the 1964 Civil Rights Act can say with a straight face that the DJ programs were constitutional. They were patently discriminatory based on race, as are many things in journalism, an industry fixated on discriminatory quotas and affirmative action.
2) New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Police chief Warren Riley have been held in contempt by a judge for ?failure to provide initial disclosures and to compel
answers to discovery? in the NRA?s legal action as a result of the illegal gun confiscations following Hurricane Katrina in 2006. This was not news to me. I’ve held Nagin in contempt since his “chocolate city” comment.
