Some Effects of Diversity

Please read a Wall Street Journal classic on the topic of diversity.
Read Mr. Zackary’s article titled “The Pursuit of Diversity Stirs Racial Tension. . .
Zackary, G. P. “Troubled Tower: Pursuit of Diversity Stirs Racial Tension at an FAA Center — Air-Traffic Controllers Split Over Affirmative Action to Combat Past Bigotry — Mr. Watson vs. Mr. Sharpe.” Wall Street Journal. 1998. Page A1.
” And the Dan Henninger’s article titled “Death of Diversity.”
Henninger, D. “Wonder Land: The Death of Diversity.” Wall Street Journal. 2007. Page A10.

Do three things: First summarize the details in the Zackary article; secondly, summarize the details of the Henninger’s article. Thirdly, offer your opinion on what should have happened at the various stages in the Zackary story.

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These three parts should take about three substantial, single-spaced paragraphs–should fill about one page total. The book references pages 32-34, 222-224, and 82-83 on diversity issues that may help. chapters on EEOC, and chapters 5,6,7 may want to be looked at for assistance.

Length: Outstanding students will post 3-5 paragraphs with about 10 lines of text in each, also respond to other classmates posts in a thoughtful details.

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Troubled Tower: Pursuit of Diversity Stirs Racial
Tension At an FAA Center — Air-Traffic Controllers
Split Over Affirmative Action To Combat Past Bigotry –
— Mr. Watson vs. Mr. Sharpe
By G. Pascal Zachary. Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition [New
York, N.Y] 03 Dec 1998: A1.
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It isn’t, but Mr. (Michael) Sharpe thinks the prescribed route will needlessly burn
up fuel, cost the airline time and money and disrupt the efficient flow of air traffic
that he holds dear. After 11 years as a controller, Mr. Sharpe thinks any air-traffic
system is only as good as its weakest link. And he feels that his trainee, Ozzie
Watson, is a weak link indeed. “He drives me nuts,” Mr. Sharpe, 37 years old,
says later.
Mr. Watson doesn’t see it that way at all. He says that he had good reasons to
send the plane where he did, and that he is being unfairly criticized — because he
is an African-American. Mr. Watson has been trying to win certification as a toplevel
controller for 14 years. He washed out after five years at a Memphis facility
in 1988, but filed a grievance with the FAA alleging racial discrimination and was
reinstated in 1993 with back pay. But before he can actually work the radar
without a trainer, he must pass a series of certification tests, which he has yet to
do. He blames white trainers like Mr. Sharpe.
Still, he recognizes that “train to succeed” has coincided with the growth in
Hilliard’s small black contingent. One of the beneficiaries was Mr. Watson, 39. In
the grievance he filed after he was terminated in Memphis, he had alleged a
pattern of subtle but pervasive discrimination. The details of the grievance are
confidential, and neither the FAA nor Mr. Watson will discuss them. The FAA
initially stood by its decision to fire him; he appealed, and was eventually
reinstated with back pay. The reinstatement order likewise is confidential, and Mr.
Watson won’t discuss details. He came to Hilliard in September 1993, just as
racial tensions were flaring into the open.
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HILLIARD, Fla. — Sitting in the dark, eyes glued to a radar scope at the Federal
Aviation Administration’s air-traffic control center here, Michael Sharpe listens on
a headset to the trainee beside him. The trainee sends the plane through Georgia
airspace on an odd route, but Mr. Sharpe can’t interfere unless the plane is at
risk.
It isn’t, but Mr. Sharpe thinks the prescribed route will needlessly burn up fuel,
cost the airline time and money and disrupt the efficient flow of air traffic that he
holds dear. After 11 years as a controller, Mr. Sharpe thinks any air-traffic system
is only as good as its weakest link. And he feels that his trainee, Ozzie Watson, is
a weak link indeed. “He drives me nuts,” Mr. Sharpe, 37 years old, says later.
Mr. Watson doesn’t see it that way at all. He says that he had good reasons to
send the plane where he did, and that he is being unfairly criticized — because he
is an African-American. Mr. Watson has been trying to win certification as a toplevel
controller for 14 years. He washed out after five years at a Memphis facility
in 1988, but filed a grievance with the FAA alleging racial discrimination and was
reinstated in 1993 with back pay. But before he can actually work the radar
without a trainer, he must pass a series of certification tests, which he has yet to
do. He blames white trainers like Mr. Sharpe.
“Being a minority and looking at how others have been certified, my treatment
was quite different,” he says. He says the agency’s standards are subjective, and
that he is a victim of “racism.”

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