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Continue reading * Baton Rouge woman arrested after alleged slaying of ex’s new girlfriend
* Scandalous words
These words will scandalize some readers.
Sometime in the future, I will no doubt discuss the same ideas in a more well-ordered way. But I think I need to produce some expression now.
Jesus never called upon his followers to “change the world.” Jesus never confronted injustice, oppression, slavery or “the system.”
He had opportunities to do so.
* “Maybe Old Teachers Don’t Stink”
Maybe Old Teachers Don’t Stink
I have come across numerous references in recent months, to the effect that poor and nonwhite students are highly disadvantaged by the inexperience of most of the teachers in their schools.
Teachers who have short careers in the field are often those who aren’t cut out for this work in the first place. But, however it happens, such persons wind up being concentrated in schools poor and nonwhite students attend.
We need to find a way to fix this.
Reblogged 2023-11-16.
* Job search diary 06/01/16 – 06/07/16
| WEDNESDAY 2016-06-02 |
| Aside: Re: Housing |
| Tuesday, my therapist asked me what I see as the greatest obstacle to employment. Answer: Housing. If I had my own place, I could work any hours, any shift; would be able to conduct job search until 5 pm daily, whereas I must appear at the shelter at 2:30; etc. |
| Wednesday, I met with a woman who comes to the shelter once a week; she comes from some City agency and tries to get guys hooked up with various resources, including housing. She said that, with only one exception, every housing facility she knows of requires that an applicant be either elderly (62 or older; I’m 60.), disabled, or both. She is to touch base with that one exception she knows of, and see if I might can get in there. |
o Job search diary 05/25/16 – 05/31/16
| WEDNESDAY 2016-05-25 |
| Dollar General |
| Applied for Sales Associate at these locations: 1620 Pennsylvania Av., 4810 Belair Road, 2401 Belair Road, 717 Washington Blvd, 2511 Greenmount Av. |
o Three Spiritual Principles to Help You through Trying Times
An unexpected blessing, in my current trying times:
Three Spiritual Principles to Help You through Trying Times
Note, 08/01/23: The link no longer points there.
* I’m in love.
o Job search diary 05/18/16 – 05/24/16
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| TUESDAY 2016-05-24 (At the library) |
| CVS |
| Spent an hour applying for 25200BR – 400 East Pratt St. – Cashier, Hourly Retail. They still had my “profile” in the system from 2013.
Updated employment history and added detailed job descriptions from my resume. Then ran into an obstacle I cannot overcome: “For positions requiring a Virtual Job Tryout you will need speakers or headphones and Adobe Flash 10.2 or higher.” I don’t have speakers or headphones (Someone stole my backpack from the church, with my headphones in it, the Sunday before Thanksgiving.), and no terminal available to me has that version of Flash. |
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o @Sweet Dolls
(TMZ deleted the comment below.)
@Sweet Dolls
First, you have no basis to suppose anything about “my people,” such as what color they may be.
When you depart from the subject matter of the article — what the rappers recorded, what the white kids did in the video, what the students did who posted it online, and Barry Bonds’ reaction — and speculate instead about commenters’ education or lack thereof, job or lack thereof, skin color or even sex life — that’s personal, and has no place in any discussion that can advance the black agenda.
Free speech, yes. Useful, no.
There are no small number of well-meaning white folk out there who have never knowingly intended black folk any harm. Not that they really matter much.
The question is rather whether you yourself will perpetuate, among black folk, the kind of self-loathing manifest in lyrics such as “I f*****d your b***h, n***a.” This is hardly the language of one who owns oneself as a child of God. A change of heart on that front will make all the difference in the fortunes of black folk in this country.
The Homeless Blogger 