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Trevor Ashe's Blog – August 2011 Archive (1)

A scary trend

One of the headlines on FireEngineering this morning reads"NY fire dept says it's recruiting more minorities".  This statement doesn't sit well with me....

 

I come from Vermont...potentially the least diverse state in the Union.  So maybe it's just my lack of experience dealing with racial issues, or maybe it's my lack of understanding on WHY IT MATTERS?  Wasn't the whole civil rights movement about getting past the color of someones skin?  I get it...there were terrible,…

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Added by Trevor Ashe on August 11, 2011 at 10:51am — 2 Comments

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