“Pushed into Oblivion!”

Digesting today’s headlines, long for Vermont.

Vermont’s spring and fall foliage and its majestic beauty make me forget that it is tagged for being the “whitest” state in the union. Love to personate the butterflies and dosey doe throughout the flowering fields pretending that I don’t have a single care in the world. Vermont brings me solace, peacefulness, and solitude. Vermont makes me want to “hang up” my revolutionary shoes and toss the darn baton to the younger folks!

During my husband’s recent hospitalization at two different hospitals, took notice that all of the menial jobs that once were occupied by blacks are now monopolized by folks with various accents.

Hmmm.

Once upon a time, can recall that blacks highest aspirations was at the bottom of the totem pole which meant that the only occupations that one could apply for was as janitor, cook, nurse’s aide, and lawn or elevator “boy.” And, if you had the complexion, hair, speech pattern, and features similar to Lena Horne, maybe you were welcomed at the switchboard.

Wonder why a city with a black populous of only 30% and frequently touts blacks to be “number one” offenders in the categories of Aids, HIV, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, infanticides, obesity, murders, birthing illegitimate children, illiteracy rates, and anything that is categorically negative or stereotypical has a problem making us “number one” in the jobs category?

As the highest unemployed and underemployed group in America, surely an Equal Employment Opportunity representative within the Human Resources department can aggressively recruit some blacks who are qualified, willing, experienced, and able to carry a freaking bed pan to a patient who needs to defecate!

Accidental?

Observed the same modus operandi happening at the two Naval Bases where I frequently shop. Double dare you to find black cashiers, black managers, black supervisors, and black bag personnel.

And, to think my black husband risked his life for nearly 30 years defending a country that is still rabidly bigoted in 2013!

Conspiracy?

Completed a renovation project on my home and out of curiosity asked the white owner why his labor pool was not diversified. Boastfully, he responded, “Spanish workers don’t request lunch or piss breaks.”

Scandalous!

Thought that maybe his comment was a fluke until I asked a receptionist at the hospital where my husband was convalescing why she was eating her dinner at the switchboard instead of in the break room. She replied, “Don’t have a relief person.”

Seriously?

There are 16 million unemployed people in America and you don’t have a relief person?

Well, as a former Vice President of Human Resources at a three billion dollar company, advised her that her employer was in violation of the law and gave her the information where she could anonymously report these lawbreakers.

Don’t need to speak English to “drop a dime” on azzholes!

Sending a challenge to my fellow Career Consultant colleague, Danny Huffman, who writes masterful articles on the trends and happenings within the workforce. Inviting Danny to conduct a covert investigation on the black hiring retrenchment phenomenon that is sweeping the American landscape.

Wouldn’t that be a mother!

Bet his blockbuster findings would be riveting especially if his evidentiary summations resulting from his clandestine meetings with the 1%’ers support my suspicions and your suppositions!

Meanwhile, while we wait for his results…..

After blasting their son, Jordan Davis, into smithereens all because of loud music that this white killer proclaimed was irritating “thug music” emanating from the teenager’s car, Michael David Dunn mails “shockingly racist” letters from jail in which he repeatedly calls the deceased black kid a “thug,” the kid’s daddy a “thug,” and his fellow black jail mates “thugs.”

And, until this fateful encounter, Dunn had never met the Davis men yet he stereotypes them as thugs?

Wouldn’t want this bigot as my supervisor!

Knuckleheads like Dunn and others who spew and espouse racism, bigotry, and prejudices or those who actively bar anyone from becoming gainfully employed due to hatred need to be “pushed into oblivion” by getting a one-way express ticket to hell.

Adios!