DGS49
Diamond Member
Many years ago when I was a senior in High School, I started a job with Sears where I had my first experience with Forced Obliviousness.
In the Credit Department, they employed scores of young people to do various things not relevant here. They were "very good" at hiring "minorities" at that time, and the staff in this department was about 20% "Black." THere was a dress code and a code of conduct. If you violated either one, you were admonished, then disciplined, then fired.
The Black females totally ignored the dress code. They came in with T-shirts, short skirts and dresses that exposed body parts, they had long fingernails that made it ridiculously difficult to use the phones and so on. And their transgressions were ignored, while they were enforced, to the letter, for the "white" employees. They did less work, more bullshitting, more mouthing off to supervisors...you get the picture. It was all ignored.
Today, we have a similar situation with YBM's in our high schools. They ignore rules of conduct, abuse the teachers, abuse each other, do absolutely no school work, and yet "WE," the American people, are supposed to be concerned because YBM's are disciplined more often than other students. Because YBM's drop out of school and don't graduate. A former President whose name I will not mention, told America's schools that if they don't develop disciplinary policies that eliminate racial disparities, they will have their crumbs from Washington reduced.
Imagine a world where the referenced President would get up in a public forum and admonish YBM's to modify their conduct in school to eliminate the disparity in suspensions and expulsions!
If only.
Various "Progressive" presidential candidates are wailing now about how they are going to change the Federal Criminal Justice System to eliminate "mass incarceration" of YBM's, when everyone hearing them - EVERYONE - knows that the disparity in incarceration rates has nothing to do with an unfair criminal justice system, and everything to do with massive misconduct by YBM's that manifestly warrants incarceration.
I'm too old to ignore reality. It is all bullshit, and I will fight those who promote the illusion that "racism" is the reason why Blacks are tangled up in The System. That myth serves no one, least of all those whose conduct is in question.
In the Credit Department, they employed scores of young people to do various things not relevant here. They were "very good" at hiring "minorities" at that time, and the staff in this department was about 20% "Black." THere was a dress code and a code of conduct. If you violated either one, you were admonished, then disciplined, then fired.
The Black females totally ignored the dress code. They came in with T-shirts, short skirts and dresses that exposed body parts, they had long fingernails that made it ridiculously difficult to use the phones and so on. And their transgressions were ignored, while they were enforced, to the letter, for the "white" employees. They did less work, more bullshitting, more mouthing off to supervisors...you get the picture. It was all ignored.
Today, we have a similar situation with YBM's in our high schools. They ignore rules of conduct, abuse the teachers, abuse each other, do absolutely no school work, and yet "WE," the American people, are supposed to be concerned because YBM's are disciplined more often than other students. Because YBM's drop out of school and don't graduate. A former President whose name I will not mention, told America's schools that if they don't develop disciplinary policies that eliminate racial disparities, they will have their crumbs from Washington reduced.
Imagine a world where the referenced President would get up in a public forum and admonish YBM's to modify their conduct in school to eliminate the disparity in suspensions and expulsions!
If only.
Various "Progressive" presidential candidates are wailing now about how they are going to change the Federal Criminal Justice System to eliminate "mass incarceration" of YBM's, when everyone hearing them - EVERYONE - knows that the disparity in incarceration rates has nothing to do with an unfair criminal justice system, and everything to do with massive misconduct by YBM's that manifestly warrants incarceration.
I'm too old to ignore reality. It is all bullshit, and I will fight those who promote the illusion that "racism" is the reason why Blacks are tangled up in The System. That myth serves no one, least of all those whose conduct is in question.