How Did We Get Here?
While TRUMP is proclaiming loud and wide that there "ain't gonna be no equal opportunity, in HIS Amerika"; our MEDIA is telling us much More!! The recent shooting tragedy in Virginia, reported by Media as a "workplace killing"; also STARS Media workers!! (they shot their own footage, and made sure we got to see it!)
We have to reflect back a ways, to put all of this in perspective. Long before there was pressure from Black Kids to integrate Lunch Counters, in the 1950s, their more mature parents and grand-parents had been pressuring for Fair Employment!, in the 1930s! Before President Kennedy; (Johnson stole all the credit?); no President had used Executive Action to end racial discrimination in employment! That happened in 1963!!
All of the usual suspects who, later, got a "ticket" on that bus; (women, Brown Peoples from around the world; Gays, the Handicapped) have been busy during these many decades of "Blowback", making Damn Sure that Blacks continued to ride "in the back"!! How did they do it?
Companies began, under Reagan (of course) OUT-SOURCING their hiring practices to FOREIGN firms, and getting around our Affirmative Action Laws. Later, the H.R. part of companies, both large and small. expanded this practice to Discrimination against the Aged, the Ill, those with too much Seniority; and, of course, Persons of Color. Only those who are "less threatening" are spared, so long as they "stay in their place"!! Later, firms began out-sourcing their payrolls and related employment practices.
With the rise in power of MEDIA to control perceptions, most workplaces are turning to "pressure cookers" for issues that include Race, Class, Religion, and the petty personality disorders of individual workers. Make sense, now??
Stay Vigilant! Our Media and our Politicians have led us on a Fools Errand as we struggle to manage our daily lives. This has been going on for Decades! It's obviously reaching a boiling point as Social Media introduces its peculiar influences. H.R. is where all the Action is! It scripts what Management does and says. It is the Shield behind which Corporate America hides, while breaking our Employment and Labor Laws!
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