Discrimination is wrong no matter how you look at it. Racial, religious, cultural or in any other form, it is still ugly, ignorant and wrong. It is made all the worse when a corporation, who touts their stand on treating people equally, is not brave enough to do the right thing and face this forthrightly. I know there are many injustices and evils in the world, but reverse discrimination falls unfortunately on the same side. Born out of a sense of retribution for past injustices or blind anger, there is still no excuse for it. It is time for this to stop.
Bullying and harassment must not be tolerated in any form. One would think that with all the education and ability to set things right a corporation would do so given an opportunity to. Not so with a company I am very close to. It is sickeningly cowardly. I have brought this to the attention of those with the proper influence to change this, but so far they have not. I have sworn to tell the truth of what I have seen and I have been clear and honest yet my words have, as of yet, fallen on deaf ears. Is someone waiting for this to go away? Are they hoping this evil will just evaporate? Are they themselves too afraid to act for fear that the guilty will twist the truth by falsely claiming that an act of racial discrimination was instead directed against them? This whole situation is holding everyone hostage. It is creating and has already created a hostile work environment and made all the worse through inaction through a directive to suspend any appropriate discipline.
I have information myself, evidence to present before a court or newspaper or tv audience and even if my side does not reach anyone more than my family or neighbor I would be able to live with myself. I have to hold myself accountable as well. If I was there when Jesus was crucified would I take Christ’s side or the Roman soldiers who drove the nails into his hands and hung him from the Cross? There is a great deal of hypocrisy here. I am human myself, but to go along with this ‘evil’ is itself wrong. I have done nothing to be ashamed of or to be guilty about, neither has the victim or their manager. They know this, yet they continue to ‘pull the covers over their eyes while the wolf saunters across the bedroom floor.’ There is no excuse. No acceptable rationale for letting three young street smart and bullying women harass and ‘beat up’ on a young lady of another color. To do so is to act in collusion through inaction. May the Lord direct me and everyone involved. Life is too short.
