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111.jpg?resize=1200,630 - Famed FDNY Lieutenant Excluded From Color-Guard Procession

Famed FDNY Lieutenant Excluded From Color-Guard Procession

FDNY diversity official said that excluding a firefighter from a ceremonial color guard based on his skin color “most definitely” acceptable, new report reveals.

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Cecilia Loving, FDNY’s chief diversity and inclusion officer defends the decision to exclude Lt. Daniel McWilliams off a color-guard procession so that it remains all – black.

McWilliams was one of the three firefighters in the iconic 9/11 Ground Zero flag-raising photo, and has filed an equal employment opportunity complaint since.

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Source: Reuters

The lieutenant showed up at the 2017 memorial mass to honor deceased members of the Vulcan Society, a black FDNY firefighters’ fraternal group, and was denied to hold a flag in the color guard.

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Regina Wilson, Vulcan Society president at the time of the incident, asked McWilliams to lend a “help in a different capacity” because he is not black.

Source: AP

Loving has showed up and testified at a state Division of Human Rights trial to defend against McWilliams’ complaint, and said that there is nothing wrong with Wilson’s decision.

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Keith Sullivan, the lawyer representing McWilliams, questioned the decision to request for an all-black color guard and calls it discriminatory, in which Loving replied that it is rather, “most definitely” acceptable.

Loving argued that replacing a white member with an African-American is a move to “uplift our identities and our separate ethnicities in order to instill a sense of pride and community and support for one another.”

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Source: New York Daily News

Sullivan argued in a written brief that McWilliams’s rejection is “deplorable” and an evidence of a stark double standard in the FDNY.

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“If you’re black and you discriminate against a white person in the workplace, you get a slap on the wrist at best. A white person who discriminates gets “heavy-handed discipline and punishment.”

“The FDNY has created a policy and procedure for bending over backwards, coming up with excuses and accommodating members of the Vulcan Society … who commit racist acts, and it has to stop,” Sullivan wrote.

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