Safety? Who needs that. What you really need is black, brown and women people to save you
Via NY Times:
By now, the 242 recruits at the New York City Fire Department’s training academy have climbed hundreds of flights of stairs carrying at least 100 pounds of gear. They have rushed into burning buildings, smoke-filled subway cars and a bombed-out Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus.
Generations of firefighters have endured this rite of passage, but this group is different. When the class graduates on Thursday, it will be the most diverse in the city’s history, with minorities making up 62 percent of it. The change is a result of a federal judge’s order that the city reform the hiring practices of a department that was nearly 90 percent white.