But, as is usual, it isn’t from caucasian race baiters.
No, once again, it is a result of liberal guilt.
No black contracts — no light rail
Dozens of people joined hands in prayer at a Sound Transit meeting yesterday, asking that politicians who run the agency find more jobs for black contractors.
The prayer ended a day of protest, in which 70 people waved picket signs at each end of a partly built train tunnel in Seattle, entered a fenced work area and briefly blocked traffic at Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Rainier Avenue South. Some irritated drivers tried to lurch through the protest group, but no one was injured.
Demonstrators said they’ve been frustrated for three years by the light-rail project from Westlake Center to Tukwila, where construction is nearing the halfway mark.
Blocking traffic and closing worksites because a certain group cannot get over the fact that King County’s light rail project cannot use a quota system to give out contracts.
This is what 30-plus years of affirmative action brings: People who think that JUST BECAUSE OF THEY ARE OF A CERTAIN RACE the government should be skipping over concerns for the fair use of the taxpayers money and the quality of the project to give them something.
Now that it has been gotten rid of, people who were enjoying the free ride and didn’t have to compete in the marketplace, they are getting feisty.
Imagine if the races were switched. This rather low key story that was quickly moved to the back burner in this town would be front page news and have contained words like ‘Racism’.