Racism aside, WTH is a man that old doing working at Pizza Hut? People need to be allowed to retire without being in such financial straits.
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America! Greatest country on Earth!!!
[Anyone else about to puke from hearing that lie a thousand times too many?]
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my understanding is that for the past decade or so, itās mostly middle age and older folks working fast food.
weāre very much a service workforce at this point ( service, tech, and finance maybe ) - thereās just not a lot of traditional middle class jobs anymore
resulting in things like millennials having a harder time getting first jobs. and older people never having enough to retire. ( doubly so on both fronts for people of color )
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Fifteen officers are currently on administrative leave, according a Torrance police spokesman. The officers identified by The Times were involved in at least seven serious or fatal uses of force against Black or Latino men since 2013.
just a few bad apples /s
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Gobs of positions available in medicine! (Also, technically, sort of a service industry) You just need some training (LPN usually 9 months, RN 2 years, BSN 4 years, MD 11-16 years) and willingness to put up with abuse, overwork, crappy pay for required level of training and being targeted for execution by brain dead cultists. Oh, yeah, thatās why there are gobs of positions available. Sigh
(Sorry, off topic. Rant done)
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All the Walmart greeter positions were filled?
Sometime in the early 1980s, corporate America and its servants in the GOP decided that the prospect of a modestly comfortable retirement was what economists call a āmoral hazardā (and what Xtianists call āan affront to the Protestant work ethicā).
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Not sure if that was the article I read on the subject, but in the one I read, one of the students said it was the FOURTH course sheād been in with this professor. He still didnāt know who she was after at least a minorās worth of courses, if not most of a major.
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Sure, but how many students does this prof have per semester? How large are the classes? And does he also fuck up the names of white students? Seems like Fordham is mid-sized (about 16000 students altogether, undergrad and grad), so depending on popularity of his upper divison courses, he could have large sections.
Iāll admit, Iām shit at remember names. I try, but Iām still shit at it. Guy could be an asshole with racist tendencies, of courseā¦ thatās not uncommon among professors who feel that educating is the least important part of their job. But he could also just be bad at remembering namesā¦
FWIW, here is the profs āRate my professorā pageā¦
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Yeah, thatās a good point. Although, I have to say (as someone with moderate face blindness), if youāre in a position that requires you to recognize people and you know you have a problem with it, you come up with face-saving ways to compensate.
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31 reviews, so I hate to make a judgment call on that.
I would be curious to know if the positive ratings all come from, say, white students. Weāve certainly seen that: a teacher whoās phenomenal if youāre the right race/gender/religion, but otherwise to be avoided.
ETA (as Iāve now posted twice in a row already)ā¦
Iāve only now read the Root article, and they say the students were both first-years, and that the one student had had 4 CLASSES, not courses, with the teacher. The other article I read (I should go find it) said courses, which is an entirely different scenario. I trust the Rootās research to be solid, so this could literally be a case of the other journalist not understanding the difference between ācourseā and āclassā. It definitely makes a difference in understanding what the heck happened.
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Agreed.
There could also be other things happening that weāre not privy too from this article. He might have had other complaints against him, from other students or from his colleagues.
Me too, but itās hard to know. But the school does seem like itās white majorityā¦
Yes.
ETA: Here is the article they quote:
It seems more clear that they mean over 4 individual classes, not that she had been in 4 courses with him.
I think his email probably had more to do with his firing than him mixing up the namesā¦ He kind of did the whole ālook what Iāve done for Black people, arenāt I a good allyā bullshit instead of, you knowā¦ just apologizingā¦
but I also think this points to other issues that more often face women and especially women of color in academia - that of job instability. He had recently gone from an adjunct to lecturer, and he lost his union protections as a result.
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Totally! Why is it so hard for some people to say āIām sorryā?
ETA: sorry, I was on a call and used the wrong paragraph to respond! Multitasking isnāt as easy as the kids say it is!!
I meant to respond to:
But your point about how the instability of academic work ā which usually affects women and people of color most ā is still a component in this situation is so true; itās definitely a crucial piece of the puzzle.
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They donāt want to believe that they might harbor racist sentiments even though they understand they are a byproduct of a racist society?
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Almost too sad to post, but stories like this are important.
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Reinstated for reasonsā¦the explanation given by the arbitrator in this case is some next-level bs: 
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I think this man should add more zeros for the damages describedā¦
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Once upon a time, āan eye for an eyeā was meant as a moderating concept of justice, rather than, for example, executing someone for stealing a loaf of bread.
At this point in U.S. law enforcement history, it would be the exact opposite ā OMG youāre going to treat me as violently as I treat others? Oh, the horror!!1!1!! ā but still it would be a good start toward restorative justice.
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