Fairness is as fairness does

Fairness is as fairness does

That the city's contract-letting process is flawed and defective and has been since contracts first started being let is unquestionable. That Mayor Richard M. Daley has now definitively admitted it and is reportedly vowing to correct the discrepancies is commendable.

The Chicago Defender and other media outlets reported some time ago that African American participation in city contracts was at or around dismal levels -- nine percent in a city where minorities comprise more than half of the population.

Something there does not compute and we hail Daley for vowing to fix the process that threatens to taint his mostly progressive …