Racism Alive and Well

I work for the public school system in my little town of L.C. and the first week of school there was a fight a racially motivated fight. There is the teacher allowing her kids to speak openly about racial issues in class.....then it got personal. Here is a white kid who was home schooled and by what he was saying in class he is very proud of being white. He is part of that white is right group and niggers need to get back.  well he was messing with this black kid the biggest one in the class mind you, this kid used to be on the football team. Well this black kid kept warning the white kid that he was going to far with his comments especially the ones he was making personally to him. The white kid kept on egging the black kid on even talked about the kid's mother. Well it finally happened on a Friday we are already just 10 days into the school year and my teacher and I are getting our class started when all of a sudden we heard this big boom desks sounded like they were being thrown. The big black kid had finally had enough and he had the scrawny white kid around the throat and body slammed him hard into the desks..... The black kid beat the white kid bloody in the face and he told him he was going to kill him..... Well if it wasn't for the quick action of the teacher I work with and 2 students who was friends with the black kid that white kid would have been drawing his last breath. He made the black kid so angry he went into a blind rage.  The teacher of that class was frozen she did not move or blink the other kids in the class both black and white were afraid looking to her for leadership and they did not get any. This teacher by the way I believe had a little hatred in her because of the way she talked to me and would barge into out class like she had no up bringing. It took all I had to keep from telling her off about barking at me when making a request and I don't even know the lady nor did I deserve that.  Well after that incident happened in a staff meeting with the teachers she decided to tell the other teachers to keep this white kid away from the black kids because he was home schooled and don't like blacks in other words segregate your class if this kid is in your class. My teacher got up and walked out because she was mad and thought the comment was stupid, the other teachers sat there with their mouths agape because they could not believe she formed her mouth to say something like that. Well word must have gotten back to the principal because she stopped barging into our classroom and stopped talking so condescendingly at me.  Life is good at my high school for now.....tension is still there because some kids won't let it die, there were rumors that  this white kid was going to retaliate against the black kid by having his posse jump him..... well the black kids say this black kid has family that will descend on you like locus if you have a beef with any of them.  I have even heard other white educators and counselors say that this black kid did that because he was angry for not being on the football team. They just don't get it do they.

Me Venting

I was watching the news and I was actually getting a little bit angry over what I was seeing. I was watching the politicians bicker over the job that the president is doing. Why do we as a people expect imperfect people to correct other imperfect peoples mess? While the public is falling for the okey doke from all political parties the people are suffering. Many of us are losing jobs, many of us have jobs that don't pay well, many of us don't have and never had a job because of inexperience. So we the people struggle along relying on payday loans and other means of getting money just to pay the rent/mortgage, buy food, pay water and light bills, pay for TV(remember when TV was free) , we are paying for phone bills both land lines and cell phone either via contract or prepaid we still paying for that service, we are all pawns in a game that seems to be a win win battle for the wealthy and politicians, the rest of us carry them on our backs, Some of the wealthy claim to remember when they were broke and poor, they may remember but to tell those of us who has to choose between food and rent, electricity or clothing, car payment or water bill, not to mention any insurance we may need what good does that do us to know that they remember when.....?  Has it changed your life?  When you see politicians and their families go on exotic vacations and the media screams it was stolen from the people, that is a bunch of crap we pay for everything via our taxes, we pay for their health care we pay for their maids we pay for the cream of the crop of everything and we can't even afford a trip the MacDonald's because that is a luxury for some of us. Republicans and tea party people screaming pull up your own boot straps, what boot traps ? how can you pull up something that you don't even have?  Most people don't want hand outs so they can sit leisurely at home..... we want a leg up a little help with out all the red tape and high qualifications,  all people with bad credit are not dead beats  they have had to choose between necessities in order to keep from completely drowning. This economy is getting worst nobody or I should say the majority of us can't catch a break but we get all the stress and drama and financial wows and the turn downs and all the ethnic and racial hatred thrown at us all in a days survival.  None of the powerful people are willing to give up their salaries are they? This whole situation is like being in a very bad marriage. It is in some sense very abusive. Politicians playing the blame game but nobody will stand up and say I will give up my salary for a year. None of them will stand up and say I will live off of minimum wages and no insurance or lot less and pay a fee from your HMO like 20 bucks and try to survive on that. Or how about they try to live on social security money and go through those hassles, how about they try to live on unemployment or not have any money at all. They won't do it because at the end of the day none of them care they just like the hype between party lines to keep the people hood winked . Many of us go to bed stressed out about where we will get the money to pay just our monthly have to bills, many of us are at the end of our ropes and we pray and ask God to help us. Every now and then he does .... he makes a way for us to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Then here comes Jody again wrecking havoc on our wallets again. But here is the point none of the politicians really gives a rats booty about us at all, while we struggle they live it up. When do we get our turn to reap the benefits of our slave labor?