The now ironically named Equal Employment Opportunity Commission today sent letters to law firms across the country demanding to know why they're not doing their part to ensure mediocre white men get jobs.
Among the supposed commission's targets: Goodwin Procter on Northern Avenue in the Seaport, which has an official Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policy, to ensure minority attorneys and other employees get a fair shot, Ropes & Gray in the Prudential building, which also has an official Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policy and WilmerHale on State Street, which has both an official Inclusion and Opportunity policy and a formal policy against supporting slavery. Is there a pattern here?
WilmerHale started as Hale and Dorr, one of whose partners, Joseph Welch, asked the famous "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" question in 1954 that began the downfall of Republican demagogue Joseph McCarthy.
The commission, part of an administration busily trying to erase the history of Black heroes and even "gay" bomber planes, cited its authority under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which was intended to outlaw centuries of discrimination against Blacks and other minorities.
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Why are you posting this
By LiamPC
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 9:19pm
We live in Massachusetts, not in backwoods Mississippi. People are not that prejudice here. I want my doctor, my lawyer, my financial planner, etc. to be in the position they are because of their qualifications and accomplishments, not because they fit into some 'nonsense' minority bracket.
People like you are what's keeping the idea of negative stereotypes alive. Watch this video, Adam, please.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cGfrExozQ
This 'blog' is starting to become another un-credible news source, epitomizing one-sided political extremism.
...and Massachusetts is in
By Rob
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 9:35pm
...and Massachusetts is in the USA, where this **** is being perpetrated - and it affects us.
Isolationism is for MAGAts, and has no place in rational, critical thought. We need to know what's going on.
Agree with LiamPCs last sentence
By Mike803b
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 12:50am
This site has long been my favorite Boston news source. I love your work, Adam. It’s always been left leaning and that’s totally fine.
Look at the title of this post and basically any post this year that touches politics. You state your opinion before anyone has the chance the read the article. Instead of reporting the news with your own flare, it’s been reading like an anti trump/musk rally website. I’ll keep reading but would love to see it paired back a bit.
Anyone who says get rid of
By Aaaaa
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 12:27am
Anyone who says get rid of DEI has never had a problem getting a job and has also never had a manager or boss of a different color or gender.
Sorry WM you are mediocre and frankly sound pathetic and out of touch with everything when you state get rid of DEI. Your daughters will definitely never be at all important or successful with your BS attitude. And someday you may have a mixed grand and cry that its not fair they don’t have the same opportunities that you had as a clear individual.
Since Jan 20th, it's not
By Rob
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 2:24am
Since Jan 20th, it's not politics.
It has been Trump's actions. Illegal and destructive actions - overreach, lies, revenge, profiteering, trampling rights, shortsighted, unsupported by data, ignoring procedure, against the Constitution...
If he had a modicum of patience, and tolerance of procedure - he'd probably get a lot of what he wanted inside of six months. For whatever reason - he doesn't. Some combination of greed, fear, rage (revenge), incapacity, and whatever Musk and/or Putin might be holding over him.
Haven't lived in Boston
By Don't Panic
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 2:05am
Haven't lived in Boston Massachusetts very long have you @LiamPC?
“People are not that prejudice here.”
By tblade
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 3:38am
What a clown comment.
Federal judge awards $2.75 million to Boston musician attacked by white supremacist group
Massachusetts teacher on leave after holding mock slave auction and using racial slur, official says
Alleged racial bullying at Southwick schools leads to corrective actions
‘Smirking’ 15-year-old who tried to drown Black teen, called victim ‘George Floyd’ and ‘racially motivated’ slurs
Milford Man Shouted Racial Slurs At Officer, Charged With Assault
Racist graffiti found carved into sidewalk in Salem, Massachusetts
Massachusetts trooper fired over racial slurs during confrontation with motorist
Former MSP trainee who knew dead recruit details racist, bullying allegations at academy
Complaint says Melrose METCO student was a victim of repeated racist bullying
Angry racist roams Roslindale Square
Just like 2016: The hate begins
etc, etc. . .
No, it’s the racists and dishonest people like you that that keep the accurate stereotypes alive.
People are not that predjudiced here?
By Sator
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 8:09am
Yikes. Time to leave your bubble, brother. Time to go outside and meet more people.
Your assertion is incorrect. People are still plenty prejudiced here in the Commonwealth.
What an absurdly bad take
By lbb
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 9:02am
This is the state whose Republican Party delegates gave Scott Lively enough votes at their convention to make it onto the ballot.
So basically, what you are saying...
By HenryAlan 2.0
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 9:58am
So basically, what you are saying, is you do not favor efforts by law firms and health care systems to seek out the very best lawyers and doctors, but to instead focus on only finding the people who make you personally comfortable. DEI is about making sure all applicants are looked at, not just the usual suspects. That's a good thing.
Bruh
By blues_lead
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 10:39am
Hey Sasha, this is a story about law firms in Boston, that's why.
You completely miss the point
By adamg
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 9:38pm
The issue isn't promoting unqualified Black people. The issue is NOT promoting qualified Black people (ditto for Hispanic and Asian-American people). The point of diversity programs is to ensure that somebody who is qualified can get a job regardless of their skin color or ethnic background, in a country that, since its founding, has gone out of its way to ensure that does not happen (If you're unfamiliar with the concept of slavery, Jim Crow, lynching, the Chinese Exclusion Act, World War II Japanese-American concentration camps, Leo Frank, the S.S. St. Louis, Operation Wetback, redlining, aw, forget it, you probably could care less about the actual history of this country).
Yeah, nice clip: Two old rich guys having a chat. I'm sure Morgan Freeman had to overcome obstacles in his life, but he long ago passed the point where he had to worry about people mistreating him because of his race (I'm also sure that clip was taken completely out of context). Fame has its advantages (ditto for Mike Wallace back when they had that chat).
As for this site, if you want to go to OANN or wherever it is you want for "balanced" coverage, please feel free, you hardly need my permission.
^^^^What he said!^^^^
By Don't Panic
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 2:15am
n/t
...law firms across the
By Rob
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 9:39pm
...law firms across the country demanding to know why they're not doing their part to ensure mediocre white men get jobs...
Openings in Law for mediocre white men, huh? Sounds like it's time for me to complete that Juris Tincidunt.
Very creative Latin @Rob!
By Don't Panic
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 2:13am
Very creative Latin @Rob!
Sorry, Adam
By Drew Iac
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 12:54am
You're starting to sound too liberal.
Hopefully law firms will protect us
By hydeparkish
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 4:50am
From what the current organization is attempting to do.
Since our politicians aren't doing their duty.
Trusk is working to resegregate the country, sadly.
Thanks for your reporting Adam!
Mixed results
By perruptor
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 6:25am
According to Glenn Kirschner, Several large law firms declined to defend a firm targeted by Trump.
From MSNBC:
Don't worry, mediocre white repugnicans.
By CopleyScott17
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 7:47am
If you need a job, you can always run for Congress.
Earn my vote, bitches
By Homer Bedloe
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 8:12am
We Democrats need to start holding our politicians and politician-wanna-be’s accountable. I’m tired of the Markey’s, the Warren’s, the Wu’s etc presuming we will vote for them, because we always do. Make them earn our vote rather than them knowing they’ll automatically receive it, not because we like them, but because they’re only slightly less heinous than their republikkkan counterpart. We need to kick their useless ass to the curb when they don’t produce the results we want. I wanna hear the pain of these lazy-ass dems when they’re booted after a single term because they’re ineffective.
What timeline you in?
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 8:50am
You sound like the idiot who kept coming here claiming that Markey didn't live in Massachusetts anymore, when some of us saw him around town on the weekly.
I needed help with some TSA bullshit about my son being on the "no-fly" list and our filing to have him removed being ignored. Guess who got that resolved within an hour of copying an email?
And that isn't the only time that Markey or Warren fixed something that didn't need to be broken. Constituent services matter.
I'm wondering if YOU even live here!
they do earn it
By Vicki
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 11:24am
Markey earned my vote, and a lot of other people's, in his last primary contest. We had the audacity to vote for the person whose policies, acts, and experience we liked, rather than the young challenger with the famous name.
Warren gets my vote for things including the Consumer Financial Protection Board.
If I lived in New York or Minnesota, I would definitely be yelling at Schumer or Klobuchar. They don't get credit for what Warren does right, but there's only so much she can do when the so-called Democratic leadership votes to give Trump what he wants.
That is why I keep Wu's major failures front and center
By Daan
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 11:50am
Wu failed to get relief for home owners where the extreme property tax hike is concerned. We can blame a Southie Senator but she is mayor, not the fellow from Southie.
Meanwhile she has all but given a large part of Franklin Park to a group of wealth individuals.
She ignored an unfair increase by BWSC that favors families of four but discriminates against smaller families (the stormwater charge).
These are failures by omission and commission. As a employee of Boston city government we need better.
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