Tagged: inclusion

“As a partner and chief diversity officer at Thompson & Knight, Pauline Higgins was not afraid to press the issue of hiring minorities at the 126-year-old Texas law firm. But when she left in 2008, she was replaced by an associate with less influence. Now, current and former partners say, the diversity committee meets less often, and the firm has fewer black lawyers than before. It is a trajectory familiar in many elite realms of American professional life. Even as racial barriers continue to fall, progress for African-Americans over all has remained slow — and in some cases appears to be stalling. ‘You don’t want to be a diversity officer who only buys tables at events and seats people,’ Ms. Higgins said recently. ‘It’s about recruiting and inclusion and training and development, with substantive work assignments.'”

Source: Nelson D. Schwartz and Michael Cooper. “Racial Diversity Efforts Ebb For Elite Careers, Analysis Finds.” New York Times. May 27, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/us/texas-firm-highlights-struggle-for-black-professionals.html?_r=0.

day 3 of writing. this petition is slowly coming together…

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After nearly five years, this case is actually heading to the Supreme Court! Wow!! After creating this cover page, this reality is actually beginning to sink in. I’m already at 7,000 words [there is a 9,000 word limit], so I’m going to give myself a few more weeks to sit with it and make it the best that it can be before I submit it. Never give up and never let anyone deter you from your goals!!

ALL of our “God-given rights” include “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

The Declaration of Independence states, in part:

We hold these truths to be self-evidence. That all men are created equal;

That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights;

That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed;

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

The elite, white “Founders” who wrote this document knew how parasitic, evil and corrupt they were and knew that eventually, they would self-destruct, like Rome and other empires before them, if conditions were not set to alter or abolish  a destructive government unable to secure the basic, human and “unalienable rights” of its people. The group in power, including those that wrote the Declaration of Independence, cannot think that they are superior to “Negroes” because of their “race,” then simultaneously say that “all men are created equal.” That’s a clear contradiction…unless you factor in the fact that many whites, especially during that time, consider[ed] people of African descent to be sub-human, “three-fifths a person,” descendants of monkeys or other animals, savages, barbarians, niggers, etc. It is ridiculous to think that ANY government dominated by a group of people like this, can “secure the[ ] rights” of ALL MEN and create a society and institutions that promote principles such as truth, justice and democracy and ensure that they prevail, irregardless of one’s “race.”  They failed from the very beginning and it’s clear by this country’s (and the world’s) many problems today, due to their conspiracy to maintain the myth of white/”Jewish” superiority (racism), that we, “the people,” need to “alter or abolish” this “evil system” and “institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing power in such form, as to them shall seem likely to effect the[ ] safety and happiness” of ALL “HUE-MAN” BEINGS.