New Orleans DA found racially biased in firing of whites

AP via NY Times:

A federal jury ruled on Wednesday that New Orleans's first black district attorney discriminated against 43 whites when he fired them all at once upon taking office in 2003 and replaced them with blacks.

The fired employees were awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay and damages.

The jury of eight whites and two blacks returned the unanimous verdict in the third day of deliberations in the racial discrimination case against the district attorney, Eddie Jordan.

Eight days after taking office, Mr. Jordan fired 53 of 77 white nonlawyers in his office - investigators, clerks, child-support enforcement workers and the like - and replaced them with blacks.

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Mr. Jordan has acknowledged that he wanted to make the office more reflective of the city's racial makeup, but he denied that he had fired whites just because of their race. In fact, he said, he had not known the race of the people fired.

Really? If he did not know the race of the people he fired how would he know that he was making the people in the office more reflective of the city's racial makeup? Anyone that unpersuasive is unlikely to be a very effective DA.

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