From today’s Tulsa World:
Whether Tulsa’s minority hiring quotas are being met by general contractors on city projects would be the focus of a disparity study under consideration by the City Council.
Such a study, which could cost up to $500,000, is necessary to legally enforce the quotas.
“We’ve been told our hands are tied unless we do this,” Councilor Jack Henderson said in Tuesday’s committee meetings.
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A local ordinance requires a “good faith effort” by general contractors to use affirmative action in hiring subcontractors. It requires contractors to give on average 10 percent of subcontracting work to minority- and female-owned businesses certified with the city.
I think Brian Barber, the Tulsa World writer, or his editor must be terribly confused. Everyone knows that “good faith efforts” are not “quotas.”
Mr. Henderson obviously needs crash course in the class “Misleading people by using inane euphemisms” that all the country club Republicans know so well. Here’s a Cliff Notes version:
Racial quotas/preferences: “diversity”, “affirmative action”, “proportional representation”
People other than non-Hispanic whites: “people of color”, “victims”, “minorities”
Illegal immigrants: “undocumented workers”, “guest workers”, “people who do jobs Americans won’t do”
Amnesty for illegal immigrants: “earned legalization”
Maybe there is a different explanation.
Perhaps the city bureacrats fed this reporter the usual PC crap about “targets” and “goals” and “blah, blah, blah” and the reporter and his editor just said …
“Bull!
This is Oklahoma. Here’n we know thata settin’ aside 10% of anythin’ is a quoter. And here in these parts of Oklahoma we call a quoter a quoter.”