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Study reveals city employees' racism, reverse discrimination concerns (Brittany Wallman, July 20, 2002, Florida Sun-Sentinel)

Comment No. 834: "Racism is alive and well."

The written remark on Fort Lauderdale's recent poll of employees was not surprising. But it went on: "Promotions are done by race. White males are overpassed."

The survey, released publicly this week, is the first large-scale inquiry into the minds of city employees since racial tensions in the work force erupted into rallies and lawsuits. Strikingly, many of the comments employees volunteered at the end of the survey dealt with discrimination against whites, or "reverse discrimination."

Employee after employee complained that racism fever had spread through the workplace, causing supervisors to ignore infractions of minority-race employees and to sway promotions their way, for fear of being branded racist.

City officials are disturbed, wondering how to interpret the findings.

Wondering how to interpret them? Did I miss something? Were those comments in Sanskrit or Esperanto? They seem pretty clear. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 20, 2002 5:25 PM