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No matter how much I look out for Caucasian interest, I'm always fending off their screwing me. Then God and man bless them for taking from and hurting me.
I need a God who's for Black people! I need Black people, who are Black conscious, to help me through yet another firing brought on by Caucasians robbing me of what I earned!
Local 300, Laurence Adams president, ended my 9-year battle with USPS by selling me out. So fighting to stay on a job is near impossible for me anymore.
But, I have to survive while I'm alive. How can I do that without harming anyone? I am somebody. Life is teaching me I am to be harmed with no consequence to the harming me. Is that why when I hurt it's usually someone close to me or myself?
I need Black people or mulattos like me to help me. Caucasians or Condoleezas and Colins, please don't bother responding!

2006-10-05 03:24:51 · 4 answers · asked by i tries 2 help 2 in Health Mental Health

I see the tone of most responses. I will speak to those I'm looking for an answer from.

At the USPS I suffered from other people's cigarette smoke in non smoking areas. USPS took stand easier to get rid of one who complains than correct behavior of many. I worked but was fired when union talked me out of testifying at arbitration # 8 or 9.

Now I'm fired b/c my bonus was pulled by an unknown supv but my performance enabled the co to get paid. I will always work for but demand what I'm due!

I find working with or for Caucasians, complying does not yield appreciation and I can never trust them to do the right thing, pay me honestly and treat me with the respect I show them.
I endeavor to do a good job whereever I work. Being only human I have a need for successes if I'm to overcome, get around or/and forget about the pain I've experienced as a Black male existing in this country under continued oppression.

2006-10-05 03:26:06 · update #1

As far as church, I find all I'm told about God comes from the same oppressors who stole my heritage.

I pray, pray and pray but it appears to be to no avail. Of course, that's my fault too.

2006-10-05 03:26:53 · update #2

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I feel your pain when it comes to being treated badly at work, I think it was wrong that you were sacked for making a valid complaint. On the other hand, it is not exactly right for you to blame caucasians for your troubles, that is going in a racist direction and if that is the direction you want to go then you need to contact the person the feels the same as you Jesse Jackson. I wonder what the USPS would do when he contacts them. By the way one time I applied and was accepted into an apprenticeship program at an operating engineers union because my father was a member. While I excitedly prepared to go live and work at the program, I received a letter stating that my application had been reviewed and rejected. Why? While the training program had openings I was rejected because they already had enough caucasions in the program. As a result I didn't blame all people of color for my woes, I just chalked it up to affirmative action and moved on. I wish you luck in the future, and I do hope there is a way that you are somehow able to rectify this misdeed. God Bless

2006-10-05 04:01:05 · answer #1 · answered by ronrlogan 5 · 2 0

Listen i am a white male and i too have felt the oppression working under a black man i was hired based on my being the most qualified for the position. However i was discriminated aginst every day untill finally i fought back i was called stupid cracker everyday. Finally i snapped at the manager when he said hurry up you stupid cracker. I stood up turned around and asked him "you wanna discuss stupidity,sir" "you are the one who is so ignorent that you in a way are calling me your superior." he said and how is that you stupid cracker and i told him "do you know why blacks call whites crackers?" And I told him the truthful reason "because when the slaves saw the white man coming they said "here comes the cracker" because he was the one who cracked the whips" he got mad because i proved that once and for all i was the smarter of the 2 i got fired but in light of everything so did he and about 6 other black people. But what i am tring to say is you may look like the victim but realistcly are you maybe the cause of the problems? Try and look at it in a different way instead of being so shallow to the fact that you think you were fired because you were black. If lay offs occure it usually is the least qualified that lose their jobs not just the blacks. And what kills me most about this is you sound like you are a quitter you have had a job for nine year and you think you are owed something you are not nobody is you earn your place in society just like me and everybody else. You got a goal dont give up if you are anywhere near as intellegent as you sound or portray there are a lot of places that will hire you in a second. Or go to school and do something you really want to do not just something you have to do to get by. Make something of yourself and start blaming yourself not other people. And finally quit trying to make excuses for your mishaps. Your skin color is not a cop out so quit using it as one

2006-10-05 03:48:18 · answer #2 · answered by LT. DAN 4 · 2 1

To me it seems as if your asking for segragation, which is something that we fought for many years ago. I am not sure I completely understand or sympathize with your issue.

As for the USPS, I am also employed by them, and I have watched many times as people get fired over things, and they arent prejudice, just blinded by the fact that humans do make errors or that not everyone is going to see eye to eye. If you dont see into the eye of the USPS, they find it easier to get rid of you.

2006-10-05 03:39:08 · answer #3 · answered by nanners040477 4 · 1 0

I understand your meaning, but the reality is that if we were a nation of 85% black and 15% white, white people would have to find a way to subserve, in public life, their "whiteness," much in the way an Italian American and a German american do not extoll their indiviudal cultures at work. It's the nature of the human species.

2006-10-07 13:34:02 · answer #4 · answered by mark r 3 · 0 1

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