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June 21, 2007

Are You a "Good American"?

Bradley Schlozman, acting assistant attorney general for civil rights two years ago, canned three career lawyers in the Justice Department's civil rights division, all three of whom were minority women, in order to "make room for some good Americans," as he put it in conversations with four separate lawyers. All three women had good performance ratings and were dumped over the objections of their supervisors, who were ordered to tell them they weren't performing well or were no longer needed. The problem was that the three women were of African-American, Jewish, and Chinese ethnicity and were hired by Democrats, making them not "good Americans." So who did Schlozman consider to be "good Americans"? TPMmuckraker got hold of a complaint filed by a former lawyer in the department alleging that Schlozman was "targeting minority women lawyers" and replacing them with "white, invariably Christian men" - all Bush supporters and, of course, "good [white Christian male Republican] Americans."

Posted by Becky at June 21, 2007 12:03 PM