The forces are hard upon me……..
The forces are hard upon me……..
The first thing I heard when I woke up this morning was this:
6 a.m., alarm blaring: man’s excited radio voice
“Well that GIRL is about as sharp as a bucket of mud.”
Then the station ID “Q98!”
I flew out of bed faster than I thought was possible to turn that radio off. Well, great start to the day….
THEN
I had to visit the EMPLOYMENT department this morning to pick up an application. I walked in and saw a very LARGE poster which read:
“Failure is the path of least persistence.” (picture-A white man was carving something from stone.)
I just thought, if I don’t pass stats, I don’t get my degree, but I have WORKED so hard and been so PERSISTENT and am NOT getting good enough grades. So resent the insinuation that people have no other lives but work, and that if I do fail at something work related (like looking for a job), then I just haven’t tried hard enough.
Good ol’ American Dream.
Pan right. Speaking of achievement, on the wall next to the PERSISTENCE sign was a huge section (largest in the room) on military: job opportunities, literature, veteran information, etc. All of the propaganda had pictures of (white) men on them. There were no women or people of color represented at all.
What this juxtaposition of media says to me is: if you fail at finding a job in the EMPLOYMENT department, you didn’t try hard enough, but don’t worry because the U.S. Government will take care of you poverty stricken scourge.
It’s a good way to get rid of the poor and the minority men (women now too). Eugenics at work?
As I looked around I noticed a lot of knick knacks and bobbles that weren’t there before. WOW, they are really sprucing up the place!
There were tiny white men all over in various manly militant poses. One was even sitting on a huge machine gun turret type thing. If I positioned myself just right it looked like a giant penis….the man had a giant penis! WOW! His white buddy did too, but he was stepping on his (his foot rested upon a rocket launcher).
No women, no people of color were represented with the knick knacks (and are quite a few). What a homogenous society we live in….or so it seems.
So, I was wondering what women and people of color do when they go into that office, because it appears that there are none in the U.S. (at least not represented in the media of this office).
(Funny thing is that all the people waiting and using the facility were women.)
As I turned to go I finally saw him: an African American man. He was on the homepage of every computer introducing people to the job search capabilities of the U.S. Employment Department. It said to me that he represents the “type of people” that might be using the job search software.
He didn’t have to worry though, because if he failed in his job search then he could always join the military.
This all happened within the first hour of my day.
Next time someone tells you “its not that bad,” (punch them out) please educate her or him on reality.
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound………….