I may sue based on racial discrimination
After listening to an NAACP member discuss the Jena 6 controversy as only one in millions of examples of white individuals not being held to the same accountability as black or minority individuals who are dealt very harshly by white people in positions of power ( police, prosecuting attorneys, judges )
- I'm seriously considering sending a message to either the main organization or one in my region to have my situation evaluated, maybe even having something done about it.
I have complete faith in the accuracy that if a white individual with my same credentials would have long since been hired for a position in any low to moderate technical field, office position and allowed to work their way up.
But because I am african-american, my resume' is discared, and cast off as a joke.
We'll see about that.
I wonder if it's still a joke when I'm given a $500,000 or more settlement check, because if I do have a case, that's how much it will take to satisfy over 13 years of dissatisfaction.
There must be lead based paint in your mothers basement because your brain is seriously damaged.
Anyone with your lack of credentials, your bad attitude, your lack of education, your poor work history - anyone Black, White, Yellow, Red, Purple with Pink Polka Dots - ANYONE would be exactly where you are today. Without a job, without money, and living in their mothers basement.
The reason? Because you have nothing to offer an employer that they want to buy. You might have something to offer if you had a better attitude and showed a willingness to learn, but you don't. It is an employers market ==> Read this as a buyers market. Your skills, or lack there of, are of no interest to anyone.
As to the issue of the Jena 6, get a clue. There is a distinct difference between hanging some nooses from a tree as heinous as this action is, and beating a innocent person nearly to death for no reason other than the color of their skin.
In one case the only victim is the tree.
In the other case the victim is a living breathing human person.
While there is certainly some 'emotional' damage from the nooses and the boys who did this should have been expelled and not suspended what they did is not criminal.
See the difference?
It must be so convenient to be Black or a woman because you can always blame your failures on someone else. As a white man if I do not succeed at something I have no one to blame. Yet as a black man you can say "It was the man trying to keep me down"
It must do wonders for your self esteem knowing you be the head of the company if only......
If your resume is being chucked then it's because it is either full of errors or you just aren't't qualified for the positions you are applying for. I'm Caucasian and I've been turned down for plenty of jobs and ones that I was perfectly qualified for, but I never heard from them. Stop blaming your skin color on everything that happens to you. What management notices about people are things like how they are dressed, how they present themselves, and how they speak and that holds true for any race, not just blacks. Those 3 things say volumes about you. And they say a lot more than your skin color does.
So before you go searching for that attorney, do some serious self evaluation. Are you not getting promoted because of your attitude of us versus them (black versus white)? Are you vocally racist at work? Are you really qualified for the positions you are trying to get? Can you carry on an intelligent conversation or do you speak in more of a "street talk" kind of way? I have met some very successful blacks in my time and they all have one thing in common. The aren't racists and they don't play the race card. They know they are responsible for their behavior and actions and they take that responsibility seriously. They speak in proper English, not street talk. These are nurses, doctors, lawyers, college professors, authors, engineers, politicians, teachers, police officers... and the list goes on.
In the hospital where I work there is a black woman who cleans the patient's rooms, but she won't touch a urinal, bedside commode, or toilet hat (even with gloves on), and yet she keeps applying for a position as a nurse's aid. She will never get the position because if she can't stand the thought of touching a urinal now, how would she ever be able to wash someone's backside after a messy bowel movement or empty a patient's urinal every few hours? It is her behavior that has created the rejection of her as a nurses aid, not her skin color. Or in other words she is destroying her own chances of getting a promotion and it has nothing to do with race or qualifications. Yes she is qualified, but she will never get the job because it requires her to do something that she refuses to do in her current position. So think about what you are doing that is undermining your own chances of getting a promotion and then change that behavior. I'm sure it has nothing to do with your skin color.
Yep, Affirmative Action, Protected Group Status and diversity programs are there for no reason at all...
Of course you can't read people's minds, only then it is hard to tell when something really is discrimination. Thorough and unbiased research matters and overt discrimination in many ways does have its impact too. The problem exists whether you want to use that as an excuse or not. IMO as long as there is an imbalance, discrimination has to be addressed.
Nope check your facts - the FBI was apparently brought in and they did not find enough evidence to charge those idiots with a hate crime under the federal laws.
I am not defending the idiots. I think they should have been expelled. There was more than enough leading up to this incident to justify charges against many other people who were never charged. What is in the news is only a small part of what led up to the beating.
I am also not defending the District Attorney, (the State Attorney General is not involved that I am aware of, he is also an idiot.
I am also not defending the School Superintendent who reversed the Principals expulsion of the boys who hung the nooses - he is also an idiot.
But when it is all said and done it is necessary to treat each incident as seperate.
Hanging nooses is not a direct assault on a person. No human person was harmed by this stupid, ignorant, malicious act.
Beating a someone is an assault. It causes to a person.
Were the charges correct I don't believe that I am qualified to know, I am not there. As an outsider looking in it seems that that the charges don't fit the crime.
Is your resume posted somewhere on this site? I gotta see this thing! Come on - where is it?
I've got to see what 6-years of working as a security guard qualifies you to be in this world. What else have you done -- by done I mean actually accomplished, and not inside your little head. I mean actual PROOF AVAILABLE AND CAN BE BACKED UP BY SOMETHING BESIDES YOUR ARROGANCE kind of accomplished.
So - tell me - where is this amazing fantasy resume? Let's see what you've got to take to the attorneys to show how mistreated you are for the color of your skin. I want to see the education, the continuing education, the computer classes - everything. Where is it?????
I'M FROM MISSOURI, LITTLE MAN. YOU KNOW WHAT THEY CALL MISSOURI, DON'T YOU? MISSOURI'S THE SHOW-ME STATE. SO.....
SHOW ME!!
IF YOU CAN...
Time to put your money where your mouth is. If you dare.
MinPin
Well, it WAS a hate crime, even if the authorities refused to prosecute it. And that's part of the issue there; white boys walk free, after putting nooses in a tree -- a tree that, normally, only white students are allowed to sit under. The "crime" was that black students sat under it one day. The message was simple: sit under this tree again, and we will kill you.
To me, that's a terrorist threat. To me, it's a hate crime, pure and simple. But the PA is white; and he CLAIMS there are NO LAWS WHATSOEVER that allow him to prosecute the white boys for what they did. In the entire State of Louisiana, there are no laws against hate crimes? There are NO LAWS against making terrorist threats? What about on the Federal Level? I find it hard to believe, myself, that NO ONE could find any way to prosecute those kids -- NO LAW ANYWHERE APPLIED??? That's because no one WANTED any laws to apply. That's obvious.
There were 6 black boys that beat up one white boy at school. Out-numbered - definitely. Injured - you betcha. Deserved? I can't answer that. But he DID go to a party that night. So he WASN'T exactly at death's door, now was he?
We had race fights at my high school ~ and I went to school in Columbia, Missouri -- the heart of the Midwest -- and I graduated in 1981. We didn't have a White Tree ~ we had White Hall. And you didn't go in there if you were White. You only went in there if you were Black or if you dated Blacks. Sometimes it amazes me how LITTLE the times have changed.
The problem is that the 6 black boys were originally charges with ATTEMPTED MURDER - AS ADULTS.
ATTEMPTED MURDER? Wow. That's a bit harsh. Did these 15-year old and 16-year old KIDS really set out to MURDER this white kid? Do they have enough SENSE at that age to form the INTENT to commit murder? I just can't make that leap - I'm sorry.
And one of them still sits in an adult jail tonight, even though his conviction has been overturned. He never should have been tried as an adult ~ that's one thing everyone agrees on. So why is he sitting in an adult jail AFTER his conviction has been overturned? And why are his 5 partners at home? Why are we making an example of this kid? Something's definitely wrong down in Jena -- something smells really bad down there.
If they want that town to start healing, step #1 is to CUT DOWN THAT DAMN TREE.
Step #2 is to SEND THAT KID HOME.
Step #3 is to FIRE THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.
Step #4 is to let the kids and the families sort this one out -- no more courtrooms, no more jails, no more nooses and no more threats. Just people talking to each other. And get the media out of town - they don't need the eyes of the world on them anymore.
Step #5 is to put it all behind them, and move on.
Put the kids who hung the nooses, the kids who beat up the white kid, and that white kid, all together in a van, and make them ride to school together every single day for the rest of the school year. Make them eat lunch together every single day for the rest of the school year. Make them do their homework together every single day for the rest of the school year. From now on, they do everything together as though they were joined at the hip. By the time the end of the school year rolls around, they won't be able to remember a time when they weren't together, all of them.
By the time the end of the school year rolls around, they won't remember having fought with each other; they'll be friends, and they'll defend each other to the end. And that's all that matters.
Boys will be boys - you know?
Now - regarding xttwo? If only we could solve his issues as easily. His issues run so deep, there is no hope. He is so angry with the world; he's so eager to blame anyone else for his own shortcomings. He'll never understand -- just thank the starts above that you don't have to deal with him in your own life. I can't stand dealing with people who are THAT racist.
MinPin
Min,
You honestly just gave the best solution to the Jena 6 that I have heard. I agree with you 100%. As a child, if my brother & I fought, our mom would force us to hug for like...ever! (ok, maybe 2 or 3 minutes, but it felt like forever). I think making these kids hang out, get to know one another, be together...the absolute best way to get past this.
Thank you min. That was really an awesome post.