Powerful White Chicago Democrats Discriminate Against Blacks

John Kass reports on the city of Chicago patronage trial:

Falcon is the former patronage chief in Daley's Water and Sewer Departments. She told the jury that she hired those people her political bosses wanted hired, because her bosses were her bosses, which makes sense. She testified under a grant of immunity, after the feds raided her office, seizing documents.

Naturally, she testified under that grant of immunity because she figured she'd go to jail if she didn't, because she figured what she did was illegal and, being a lawyer, she understands all that now.

At one point, she was asked the following question by Assistant U.S. Atty. Patrick Collins about how the hiring process really worked:

"Would you take into account the qualifications of the people you were rating?"

"No," Falcon said in a meek voice.

Read the whole article to find out how a qualified African-American women was fraudulently discriminated against by powerful white Chicago Democrats.