By Christian Bottorff
The Tennessean
Nashville’s fire chief wants to eliminate a list of 22 firefighters who have qualified for promotion to captain, partly because the list has run out of minority candidates.
The chief’s move is raising concerns among the firefighters on the list — all of them white — and the firefighters’ union because they say that qualified candidates are being unfairly overlooked in the name of diversity.
“It’s got people angry,” said Doug Conquest Sr., president of the Nashville Firefighters & Fire Service Employees Association Local 140, the union that represents Nashville’s firefighters. “I say there are 22 of them.”
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