During the Korean War the Navy had maybe a dozen black sailors, don't know where they kept them.
The ships had Filipinos on them who did all of the cooking and serving for the officers.

It is better now.

Truman did the right thing with Executive Order 9981. But it took time for it to happen. I find it so despicable that black veterans (and blacks in general) were treated the way they were. Shameful.
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The Shaddow's Stroy Link

snappynappy's Story Link

Same story for both.
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And a lawsuit? Without a doubt headed to the Supreme Court where our brightest and best will defend the Constitution without any regard to race quotas or personal agendas.

Wonder how the so-called mainstream press will report on a story like that?

Each service academy slices and dices their admission data for Congress and the GAO/IG. It may be getting worse since I last looked at the data in the late 80's

Government jobs have preferences.
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Cy, maybe things have changed since I retired 8 yrs ago, but I was a Govt Supervisor who did hiring and never had any such preferences imposed on my hiring selections.

Did you get to see and review ALL applicants or from a list given to you?

We didn't do individual interviews but I did get all the original applications along with the list prepared by personnel officials.

What you enumerate about Personnel (HR) determining who you can hire is one of the things wrong today.
In fact, if I understand, you don't get to interview anyone personally.

When it is determined that a supervisor is incapable of hiring his help and that must be done by experts (HR) then supervisors are emasculated, so to speak.

Supervisors used to be trained just how to interview and hire-- along with many years of experience in the field.

Personnel (HR) was the support for supervision, not the dictator. They only looked for or sorted out exactly what you told them to do.

Of course, I realize that the civil service and the military do have special circumstances, but after all they are somewhat "Special!"
One can't blame "laws" for supervisors not being authorized to hire who he wants.
If he selects someone who can't be hired due to "laws" then HR can advise the reason.
I can understand nowadays why HR should be consulted before making the offer yourself.
The details of the hiring letter should be done by HR at your instructions.
I'm sorry but that is the way to make progress. We proved that in the 40s, 50s. 60s, and 70s.
Then we made recent grads and bean-counters supervisors!!!

Don't know about your area but I do know that the Friendly Aviation Association will "re-calibrate" its potential candidate list based on what OKC directs. Criteria can range from experience, education, veteran status and other things...... The hiring manager works off of this list.
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I would write the Job Descripton and develop required Knowledges, Skills, & Abilities. The personnel office would advertise, screen applications against the JD and KSAs and eventually send me a list of those considered qualified. I then chose from that list. Now there were certain special cases, for example employees returning from overseas without a job got some priority but I never got pressured to select by race or to consider "diversity". I was primarily interested in "Best Qualified" and that's what mostly drove my selections.

Are you avoiding saying that HR might have selected according to prejudices? Before you got the list.

There's no way to tell how HR did their evaluation but regardless, it was not mandatory for me to select from their ranked list. Truth be known, I could have reviewed all the apps and made a selection without HR involvement, absent regulations said they had certain responsibilities. So regardless of what HR did, I still had the final word on selection. And because our jobs were so technical, HR had few personnnel with the skills to do accurate evals of the apps anyway. In their case, it was mostly a "word game" match between the JD, KSAs and the Application. I did the true technical eval and added the common sense factor prior to making a selection.Never had a complaint filed.

humanevents.com/article.php?id=32595
drudgereport.com (Pat Buchanan, Dumbing Down the US Navy)

http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/buchanan7.14.09.html you can copy paste to this article.