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FDNY official defends excluding famed 9/11 firefighter from procession for being white
2020-07-26
[NYPOST] A top FDNY official says it’s "most definitely" acceptable to exclude a white firefighter from a ceremonial unit based solely on his skin color, The Post has learned.
Oh, yassss. Most definitely acceptable!
Cecilia Loving, the department’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, is defending a decision to kick Lt. Daniel McWilliams — one of three firefighters in the iconic 9/11 Ground Zero flag-raising photo — off a color-guard procession so it would be all-black.
Y'see, it would also have been perfectly acceptable to kick all the colored guys off the color guard so it'd be all-white. Right?
Loving testified at a state Divsion of Human Rights trial on McWilliam’s complaint that he was the victim of racial bias.
Oh, of course he wasn't. Not for a decision based solely on his skin color... Was he?
When McWilliams showed up at a 2017 memorial mass to honor deceased members of the Vulcan Society, a fraternal group of black FDNY firefighters, he was barred from holding a flag in the color guard.
Because he wasn't a firefighter, right? No, wait. He was.
Regina Wilson, then Vulcan Society president, asked McWilliams to "help in a different capacity" because he is not black.
That was when he offered to fry up the chicken? No?
Loving, who is black, testified there is nothing wrong with that.
No, no! Certainly not! Surely if there had been a black firefighter show up at a ceremony for a society of white firefighters... There is such a thing, right?
"So, a request for an all-black color guard is not discriminatory?" McWilliam’s lawyer, Keith Sullivan, asked in the trial.
... trying not to snicker...
"No, it isn’t," Loving replied.
Then her lips fell off.
Asked if it’s acceptable to request an all-black color guard, she said, "Most definitely."
Is it acceptable to request an all-white color guard?
Loving said it’s okay to replace a white member with an African-American to "uplift our identities and our separate ethnicities in order to instill a sense of pride and community and support for one another."
Sure. Makes sense. Separate but equal color guards. And make sure they don't mix.

Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has photos, and adds:
White firefighter Lt. Daniel McWilliams filed the lawsuit claiming racial bias
The lawsuit involves a 2017 incident that took place at a FDNY memorial mass honoring deceased members of a fraternal society of black firefighters.
Posted by:Fred

#13  For every action there's an equal and opposite re-action...or something like that.

Nothing is linear (e.g., the stock market, political moods, price of gold). Life moves in cycles. This, too, shall pass. Just not soon enough.
Posted by: Clem   2020-07-26 21:24  

#12  Apparently it’s time for a White Lives Matter, diluting the diversity officer at FDNY. This black supremacy masquerading as equality has to stop. Much more of this and the Aryan Brotherhood will grow out of the shadows into the counterbalance nobody wants, except the agent provocateurs of the revolutionary Marxist left They are creating the hate that breeds the tribalism Obama planted sub Rosa.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2020-07-26 20:52  

#11  Regina Wilson, Vulcan Society president, black racist, gets her pass.
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-07-26 16:35  

#10  The only way anything will change is if the financial system starts to pull out of NYC. The bankers can easily buy off the courts in another location.
Posted by: Clem   2020-07-26 11:22  

#9  Defund the cops but keep $ for a angry fat broad 'chief diversity and inclusion officer'. Dump her fat ass in the ocean and see if she can outswim hungry sharks.
Posted by: Raj   2020-07-26 10:54  

#8  Screw New York. Leadership is morally bankrupt. People demand and get good leadership or the city is finished. Does not look like nothing is changing.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2020-07-26 10:46  

#7  /\ Agreed, but sadly, I can very well see the opposite happening with her getting "kicked upstairs".
Posted by: Clem   2020-07-26 09:47  

#6  Cecilia Loving, the department’s chief diversity and inclusion officer should be in line for a demotion or firing for being a racist.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-07-26 09:41  

#5  From Instaprof today -

“A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 75% of American Adults think the term ‘racism’ refers to any discrimination by people of one race against another.” “Just 15% say it refers only to discrimination by white people against minorities. These findings have changed little in surveys for the past several years…. Eighteen percent (18%) say most white Americans are racist. But 25% believe most black Americans are racist.”
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-07-26 09:10  

#4  No words.
Posted by: Clem   2020-07-26 08:49  

#3  #1 - It's gotta be hard to create satiric irony around idiots like this
Posted by: Frank G   2020-07-26 08:10  

#2  Maybe whites should stop treating blacks as their moral superiors? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-07-26 04:50  

#1  With this kind of monstrous self unawareness, how does The Babylone Bee even stay in business?
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2020-07-26 01:14  

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