Our City of St. Augustine was found in the 2000 Census to be: 81.2% white; 15.1% African American/black; 0.4% American Indian/Alaska Native; 0.7% Asian; 0.1% Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander; 0.9% other; 1.6% two or more races; 3.1% Hispanic/Latino origin (of any race).
In its latest (2007) Federal Form EEO-4 report to the EEOC, St. Augustine 319 Full-Time employees, of whom 21 were black, 1 was Asian and 10 were Hispanic, with every single minority employee less than $33,000 in annual salary.
There were 84 women (five black, three Hispanic and one Asian), every single none of them paid less than $33,000.
There's not just a glass ceiling -- there's an iron heel.
Only white men -- thirteen (13) white men -- received salaries of $70,000 or more per year.
St. Augustine is guilty of institutional racism and needs to be prosecuted.
No federal funds should be doled out to St. Augustine until it fires City Manager WILIAM B. HARRISS and adopts a meaningful EEO/Affirmative Action plan, such as the one from Nantucket (see below).
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