Berkeley protesters demand 'spaces of color,' harass white students trying to pass
A symptom of the sickness raging in our country. Colleges have been dominated by the snowflake regime, and then allow them to graduate. Wait until you have to work with one..
And can you imagine the uproar and outcry if I, as a white guy, demand MY own space of color, that color being white?
This is the perfect venue to unveil my new line of barbed-wire casual wear!
This illustrates the chief failure of the civil rights movement of the '60s, which had the primary goal of eradicating fictional racial barriers embodied in the implementation of the old Jim Crow. Millions of white people agreed with the purpose of that civil rights movement and voted and marched accordingly. Any victory of that civil rights movement was certainly short lived because it was immediately betrayed by implementation of the New Jim Crow. We can see today that movement eradicated nothing.
Perhaps if a white "Rosa Parks" had arrived at that bridge in Berkeley and refused to go around in protest of racial discrimination, the exposure of the hypocrisy of the New Jim Crow could begin a new civil rights movement on that campus.
Edit: I wonder if millions of black people would march in solidarity with white people to eradicate the New Jim Crow.
Sorted.
Next issue, please.
Methinks Jim Crow deserves a teargas grenade.
Always has flip flop or not.
I feel so damaged! Wah!
That was my Gloria Allred impression.
People who were once their age fought wars, died for their beliefs, and stood for what was important! They knew what character was and they exercised it.
That is something the liberal mentality in this nation fails to teach our young.
The line I found most annoying about OWS was that they did "what they were told," and they still didn't succeed. I would change that from passive to active voice: "they did what someone else told them and it did not work." That's a powerful lesson. Doing what other people say doesn't always get the results you want.
I don't know. There's a lot of talk about "grit". Hopefully the pendulum is swinging the other way.
It's not just the schools. My son's soccer team does not keep score because "everyone wins". He keeps score and clearly knows when his team wins and loses. My daughter went to a b-day party where all the kids pulled strings to release the piñata so that it would be non-violent and no one kid would be singled out as the one who broke it. We told them that was a crock and they can have a real piñata with a real bat.
I see the problems but not the orchestrated effort. The cause is more random stupidity than an evil plan.
I have to agree and recommend Charlotte Thomsom Iserbyt's book
"Deliberate dumbing down of Americans".
She was a fired whistleblower during Reagan after
Exposing and writing Reagan a letter explaining the "sovietization of our education system"She was fired the next day.
She also is very credible in some you tubes videos!
I think random stupidity is the norm, and it endures. ISO depends on having good SOPs, work orders (good= leads to desired outcome), and people who see it as more than a gimmick. Having those in place is the exception.
I've only been on the periphery of 6-sigma. It's name makes it sound like it's geared toward things that require consistency rather than being nimble, although I've heard there's a whole are of it closer to The Lean Startup that's not all about consistency. In any case, I maintain that these things working right is the exception. Most of the time organizations muddle through.
"But being a few levels too low in the pecking order, no one cares what I think."
If you they're not listening to you, I would take steps to stop taking their money. They probably have their own struggles they're muddling through. They might be scared to make investment, with part of the mind knowing they need to invest but another part wanting to be a conservative portfolio because they're scared they'll fail. They might have deeper dysfunction. This is all normal in life. I would tell them very firmly what you think and take steps to end the relationship. You can't/shouldn't make them share your view. There are people out there who share your view who want to hire you, mentor you, invest their money in you, sell you their business, or somehow engage in a profitable endeavor. I am really telling this to myself 15 years ago, when an employment relationship had outlived its usefulness but we both hung on for two more years. Good things happened to us when we went our separate ways. There's a book called Necessary Endings about this topic. I'm a fan of ending things when it's not working anymore or there are better things to be doing.
"21 year investment" - This sounds like of like sunk-cost fallacy or you've just gotten inured to being around people who don't share your vision. The key thing is if this investment is paying off anytime soon.
6-sigma is good, but they're not doing it well - Maybe you could find someone who does it well.
"organizational malaise" - The phrase makes me want to move things around even if I don't know what I'm doing just to end the malaise.
"59 years old" - A perfect age for intellectual tasks (like efficient process management) b/c you've been around to know what works and what sounds new but is re-packing of a bad idea from 30 years ago. It's approaching the age when people run for president and other important brain-intensive jobs. Someone slightly older is joining my team in a week, and I'm excited about it.
"go into government starting at the bottom" - I don't know enough about this to know what it means, but just on the words it sounds god-awful. It almost sounds like a slang phrase meaning the same thing as up $hit's creek without a paddle or something. Seriously, though, you seem to give a damn way too much to work in gov't.
That's all based on knowledge and my gut reaction to phrases without knowing any detail. I also may be biased because I'm not good in large orgs, even though I love serving them as a vendor/consultant.