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cellus | December 23, 2007Ok. I’m going to read to you two paragraphs from a recent AP story (If you know the story already, pretend you’re hearing it for the first time):
The confrontation came after [White's] 19-year-old son, Aaron, was asked to leave a beer bash at a friend’s house. A female guest had complained about a bogus MySpace posting claiming Aaron White wanted to rape her.
He denied making the threat but left the party. Cicciaro and his friends then called the teenager on his cell phone to continue the dispute, allegedly making threats that culminated when they arrived at the White home shortly after 11 p.m.
OK. You’ve read it. Now it’s time for a time-out. Imagine, for a minute, that you are Aaron White’s father. And a group of teenagers have pulled up to your house threatening your son. It may make me a lousy Democrat, but in the world I’d like to live in, I’d think that that man is justified doing whatever necessary to make sure those people don’t harm his property or family.
But apparently, I’d be wrong. And worse (even though it’s certainly not evident that this is racial) when John White (who is Black) was convicted, the AP headline is “NY man guilty in death of white teen.”
We as a nation have somehow convinced ourselves that Justice is significantly more colorblind than at any time in our past. Alas, I don’t remember the sixties or seventies. But it really feels like we’ve backslid.
Schwab bank has been hiring, and its recruiting method is
--d | January 21, 2008Schwab bank has been hiring, and its recruiting method is to have employees pass the word of open positions. (1000.00 for each hire one brings on board.) Well, as most bank employees are young and white, all of the new hires for the past six months have been young and white. I have whined about this at every opportunity, and have come to the realization this is what the company wants. So, all those years, and all of that work, and all of that cost…and there was cost…all for not.