Charlottesville, Virginia, a bastion of left-wing University elites, has a serious white-on-black racial discrimination problem.
Charlottesville, Virginia, a political stronghold of Marxist-leaning Democrat elected officials, has a serious white-on-black racial discrimination problem.
Charlottesville, Virginia, home to a concentration of socially evolved progressives (e.g. pro “marriage rights” and abortion on-demand), has a serious white-on-black racial discrimination problem.
Charlottesville, Virginia, a politically enlightened community, which voted 80% Democrat in the most recent State and Federal elections, has a serious white-on-black racial discrimination problem.
Charlottesville, Virginia is a community apparently populated with liberal white racists. Or so implies University of Virginia Professor Walt Heinecke’s recent proposal to Charlottesville City Council: Charlottesville Commission on Human Rights, Diversity, and Race Relations
According to Heinecke’s report, Charlottesville, Virginia’s serious white-on-black racial discrimination problem is manifested in racially prejudicial hiring practices in private employment—practices that cannot effectively be addressed by existing State and Federal equal-employment laws.
According to Heinecke’s report, Charlottesville, Virginia’s serious white-on-black racial discrimination problem is manifested in racially prejudicial rental practices in private housing—practices that cannot effectively be addressed by existing State and Federal fair-housing laws.
And, most surprisingly (to some), community conversations suggest that Charlottesville, Virginia’s serious white-on-black racial discrimination problem is manifested in racially prejudicial employment practices inside Charlottesville City Hall—an institution run by Democrats and for Democrats essentially since its inception.
Professor Heinecke envisions the proposed Human Rights Commission as a government-appointed body endowed with investigative, prosecutorial, and judicial powers—a body empowered to impose fines and condemn with public consternation “convicted” transgressors deemed “guilty” by Commission appointees.
While Charlottesville City Hall was the only named violator of existing equal-opportunity statutes during a recent City Council discussion on racism, that avowedly racist institution apparently is exempt from prosecution under Heinecke’s plan:
To engage in anti-discrimination enforcement activities including the investigation and resolution of claims of discrimination in private employment and housing as defined by a new City Ordinance. The Commission would have the power to hold hearings, conduct investigations, issue reports, impose fines and remedies. We recommend that the Commission should be structured to be eligible for designation as a Fair Employment Practices Agency (FEPA) in a contract with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). That means it would receive and process complaints of discrimination in private employment from residents of Charlottesville. [emphasis added]
How could Charlottesville City Hall, arguably the City’s most egregious and prodigious racial offender—an organization that allegedly has institutionalized racist employment practices—be exempt from the Commission’s mandate?
According to Mayor Satyendra Huja, it will not. In January 23 interview on WINA’s The Schilling Show, Huja categorically stated that he would not support Heinecke’s proposal if the Commission exempted government from its purview:
SCHILLING: Why would we exempt the government [from Charlottesville Human Rights Commission oversight] when they are acknowledged as a problem by at least several councilors? Or do you disagree with that?
HUJA: I don’t think, uh, I was unaware that the government was exempt from any consternation…
SCHILLING: Oh, they were. Go read, uh, go read Mr. Heinecke’s proposal. It exempts the government; it is only…
HUJA: I see no reason…
SCHILLING: It is only for private landlords and private businesses
HUJA: I see no reason if you’re going to have commission, uh, the government should be exempt. Uh, no reason for it.
SCHILLING: So you wouldn’t support it under any circumstances if the government was exempt?
HUJA: Well, uh, shouldn’t be exempt.
SCHILLING: So you wouldn’t support it under any circumstances if the government was exempt? In this final proposal, if it came before you, you wouldn’t do that.
HUJA: I, I don’t understand why government is exempt; I don’t see any reason.
SCHILLING: Okay, so you wouldn’t support it.
HUJA: No.
Hear the Huja/Schilling exchange on the proposed exclusion of government from Human Rights Commission purview:
[audio:https://www.schillingshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Huja-Wont-Support-Commission.mp3|titles=Huja Wont Support Commission]
Given Mayor Huja’s additional stated concerns about the $200,000-$300,000 annual cost of the Commission on Human Rights and the lack of data to support its necessity, Heinecke’s current proposal may be DOA before Charlottesville City Council without significant modification.
Regardless of Council’s ultimate action on Heinecke’s remedial proposition, the question remains: Why would Professor Heinecke and his Community Dialogue on Race “working group” champion a proposal that exempts Charlottesville City Hall, purportedly the city’s most notorious racial malefactor?
(Satyendra Huja photo courtesy of Charlottesville Tomorrow.)
Walt Heinecke's $300k Human Rights Commission may be DOA before Charlottesville City Council. See/hear Mayor Satyendra Huja's concern with government being exempted from Commission oversight: http://wp.me/p1x2fK-1DG.
There is already enough state and federal agencies that handle issues that this committee would handle (plus let not forget the non-profit organziation that willhelp you too). Question if the state and federal rules again me does that give me the right to go to this committee. If I can and would they have power to reverse the decison made by the state or federal agencies….Plus even if it is DOA, will not prevent the city counsel and their follower to keep bring this issue up each and everyday.
The city counsel and their supporter are stuck in time. The civil war ended in 1865….. It is time to move on. Stop trying to undo all the nastey things that has happen in past. We are we are individual going to start holding ourselves as individual accountable for our own action. Instead of expecting government to do it. Please we don’t need another agency telling us how to live our lives….
Please.
quinn, Of course they can move their rejected complaints to the local level where they may have sympathetic friends.
Walt Heinecki, was he one of the ones that helped to drive the first black school superintendent (Dr. Griffin) out of here by complaining she had change an achievement assessment tool? Yes, according to an article int eh Progress the federal government has been quite effective in rectifying legitimate local complaints, but you know that Charlottesville feels it has to have anything some other locality has. Thus Council does not wish to let the idea go. After all, the idea came out of Council’s current pet project called the Dialogue on Race. If Council grants this $300k appropriation, that group will be encouraged to come back with even more requests for expenditures. Of course, as the scope of this commission widens in the future, its budget will continue to grow. After all, a political commission like this will never have a sunset clause like the old Social Development Commission did.