{"id":20390,"date":"2023-10-19T06:18:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20390"},"modified":"2023-10-19T06:18:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:18:16","slug":"quick-takes-mandatory-racial-inequality-racial-preferences-in-new-zealand-healthcare-racial-preferences-in-canadian-criminal-sentencing-racial-preferences-in-teacher-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/10\/19\/quick-takes-mandatory-racial-inequality-racial-preferences-in-new-zealand-healthcare-racial-preferences-in-canadian-criminal-sentencing-racial-preferences-in-teacher-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Mandatory Racial Inequality: Racial Preferences In New Zealand Healthcare; Racial Preferences In Canadian Criminal Sentencing; Racial Preferences In Teacher Hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Some\u2026 are more equal than others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ptC2La7k5E?si=O8b4RKvAwl5v98Zw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Health equity means that you will be <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/new-zealand-debates-ethnicity-factor-surgery-waitlists-100295904\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denied prompt medical care<\/a> because you are not the right race\u2026 all in the name of \u201cequity\u201d of course.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNew Zealanders this week were debating a thorny health care issue \u2014 whether ethnicity should be a factor in determining when patients get surgery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt turns out that in some parts of Auckland, the country\u2019s largest city at 1.4 million people, clinicians have been using an algorithm to adjust where patients sit on elective surgery waitlists. Clinical need remains the top factor, but the algorithm also takes into account how long patients have been on the waitlist, where they live, their financial circumstances, and their ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIndigenous M\u0101ori and Pacific Island patients are given a higher priority on the list, pushing down white New Zealanders and other ethnicities. The idea is to balance out longstanding inequities in the publicly funded health system.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Impregnating your own developmentally disabled daughter is <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jamie-sarkonak-house-arrest-for-impregnating-daughter-a-result-of-race-based-sentencing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not that big a deal<\/a> in Canada if you are Black, with only house arrest being allowed as punishment.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn the summer of 2019, a baby was born in Nova Scotia with \u201cserious medical complications and significant developmental delays.\u201d Concerns by a medical geneticist led to police becoming involved. When the mother, 23, was discovered sexting her father during a visit to the neonatal intensive care unit, it all made sense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe parents were a father-daughter pair with a 31-year age gap between them. Both were intellectually disabled. Their child, also disabled, has since been placed in foster care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe father was subsequently charged with the crime of incest. Shortly afterward, he confessed that he first slept with his daughter when she was 19 or 20.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNormally, incest would be punished with a jail sentence: two years on the low end, and 14 years maximum. Applying progressive sentencing principles, a majority of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal decided late August that the father should only have to serve two years of house arrest (more reasonably, the dissenting judge believed that four years in jail was apt).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe trial court, and a majority of the appeal court, didn\u2019t buy the Crown\u2019s argument. Why? Because the offender was remorseful and was determined unlikely to re-offend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAnother reason was that he is Black.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhile the Crown established, using past cases, that a jail sentence of four to six years was normal for this kind of crime, the appeal court dismissed this as merely a guideline. The court also noted that the offenders, in previous cases, were not African Nova Scotians. When deciding whether offenders of such heritage should serve house arrest or jail, the court wrote that \u201ca more nuanced approach\u201d was required. In short, a racial discount was to be applied.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018The moral culpability of an African Nova Scotian offender has to be assessed in the context of historic factors and systemic racism, as was done in this case,\u2019 wrote the trial judge, with whom the majority of the appeal court agreed. \u2018Sentencing judges should take into account the impact that social and economic deprivation, historical disadvantage, diminished and non-existent opportunities and restricted options may have had on the offender\u2019s moral responsibility.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If you fail an exam that empowers you to teach children, just <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/15\/nyc-bias-suit-black-hispanic-teachers-and-ex-teachers-rich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blame systemic racism<\/a> and rake in the cash!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFailing the New York State teachers\u2019 exam really paid off \u2014 especially for a Queens man who learned this month he\u2019s getting a $2 million windfall over it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cRoughly 5,200 black and Hispanic ex-Big Apple teachers and once-aspiring educators are expected to collect more than $1.8 billion in judgments after the city stopped fighting a nearly three-decade federal discrimination lawsuit that found a certification exam was biased.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s the largest legal payout in city history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs of Friday, 225 people who failed the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test used for teacher licensing from 1994 to 2014 had already been notified they\u2019re getting settlements of at least $1 million, according to an analysis of Manhattan federal court records.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cCourt rulings found the exam violated civil-rights laws, allowing far more white candidates to pass.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mandatory Racial Inequality: Racial Preferences In New Zealand Healthcare; 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