“6 white firefighters to get $3.5 million,” whispers headline in Chi Trib Metro page today, 12/17/05. It’s an award decision about whites who said they’d been treated unfairly by affirmative action policies in Chicago FD. City is to pay. Big story, could be screaming head in Sun-Times, p-1 stuff in Trib. But S-T doesn’t even have it. We should be thankful for even small favors.
White men can’t jump proven wrong
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Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by. View all posts by Jim Bowman
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