AnchorageDailyNews article on Racism
"I'M SURE EVERYONE HAS HEARD ABOUT 'the drunken Native.' That I think is the prevalent stereotype that people have got about Native people, because that's all they hear about. ... Frequently they'll see Native people out there begging for money, and they'll assume that they're alcoholic. ... I think that generally speaking we're painted by a broad brush. It's like one Native does it and therefore all Natives (do)." -- Larry Merculieff
Film a testament to Anchorage racism both blatant and subtle
ATTITUDES: Organization sponsors classes to help people change outlooks.
By GEORGE BRYSON
gbryson@adn.com
Published: July 8, 2007
Last Modified: July 8, 2007 at 03:54 AM
Racial bigotry can be as big and ugly in Anchorage as anywhere else. But it can also be small, subtle and sneaky.
Like the time at East High School when the new ninth-grader -- a Samoan kid -- stepped inside a class for advanced students, most of whom were Caucasian, and the teacher asked if he was in the wrong room.
That's all that happened, says UAA student Daniel Pulu, speaking as a witness in a new 26-minute film on racial discrimination in Alaska. But he was young, and the experience really upset him.
"That was my first time encountering the stereotype that Samoans weren't as smart as the rest of the kids," says Pulu, a leader in the Polynesian College Council.
Or the way whites who enter restaurants are sometimes served first, even when Native Alaskans sit down before them.
If it only happened once, you wouldn't dwell on it, says Aleut leader Larry Merculieff, speaking as another witness in the video, "Anchorage Is My Home." But when it happens to you repeatedly, you begin to get suspicious.
"We'd come in, then another couple would come in that was not of color, and then another -- and they would be served first," he says. "That happened to me frequently. But if I'm with a white person, then they'll come (serve)."
Even then, the waitress would often address the white person first, as if they had the responsibility for placing the order -- "Which I always found peculiar," says Merculieff, who now serves as director of the Alaska Native Science Commission.
Jumping to conclusions about people based on their race or ethnicity, stereotyping them -- assuming a Native is poor or has an alcohol problem, or a Hispanic is living in the country illegally, or a young Polynesian is a member of a street gang, or a Muslim is a potential terrorist -- is more prevalent in Anchorage than most residents realize, the film asserts.
But everyone stereotypes others to some extent, says Alaska Legal Services director Andy Harrington. Even members of minority groups do it.
"I think of racism as a disease to which we're all susceptible, just as we're all susceptible to the common cold," Harrington says. "(Stereotypes) are intellectually lazy shortcuts. They are used to replace actual reasoning ... getting to know people as actual people."
RACIAL DIVIDES
That's what prompted the 11-year-old Healing Racism in Anchorage organization last year to commission the film, produced independently by the Leadership Anchorage arm of the Alaska Humanities Forum.
Filmmakers Erick Cordero, Mollie Boyer and Marie Husa interviewed about a dozen residents willing to speak openly about racial divides in Anchorage. Then they edited about 13 hours of footage down to a half-hour film.
Available for free to groups and businesses that request it, the film focuses mostly on relatively mild forms of racism in Alaska. But serious charges are leveled as well.
A black woman wonders why there's such an absence of professionals "who look like me" in the building where she works.
A Filipino-American mother worries whether the anti-immigrant mood that's grown more pervasive in America in the wake of 9/11 might bring harm to her children.
A Hispanic woman decries the popular acceptance of explicitly racist language in Anchorage.
"When the person next to you says a racial slur, and you think, 'Oh, gee, that was inappropriate ...' the fact that you said it to yourself and you didn't say it out loud to that person -- it doesn't help," says Angelina Estrada-Burney, a board member of the Hispanic Affairs Council of Alaska.
DIFFICULT CONVERSATION
Some people, however, want to change that.
Following the film's recent premiere at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center before 120 people, about a quarter of the audience remained longer to participate in a public forum on local racism. Then about a dozen people signed up to attend an additional month of weekly classes sponsored by Healing Racism in Anchorage.
Meeting at the museum for the second time Thursday evening, members of the class identified themselves either as targets or unwitting perpetrators of racism. But hardly any of them were surprised by what they saw or heard in the film.
"I was not moved. I was not shocked. I was not surprised," said Anchorage educator Dennis Arashiro. "My reaction was 'OK, yeah -- so what?"
That's because he'd been aware that Anchorage had aspects of racism ever since 1961 when, as an 8-year-old, he'd just arrived here with his Japanese parents, Arashiro said. That's when his dad was told their family could not rent an apartment on Third Avenue because it didn't permit "Natives or Negroes" as tenants.
Which put his father in the absurd position of arguing that he wasn't Native or Negro, while simultaneously wondering why such discriminatory practices would be allowed in Alaska in the first place.
Attending the class and coming to terms with some of that history isn't easy, said Healing Racism in Anchorage founding member Patricia Partnow.
"It's a tough sale to whites, because we can avoid it," she said.
But you have to have a difficult conversation in order to have lasting and meaningful change, said group moderator Norwood Eggeling.
William Johnson, the sole black in the room, concurred.
"It's very difficult to have this conversation," he said. "We're just getting started with it here."
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Find George Bryson online at adn.com/contact/gbryson or call 257-4318.
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theSam!! says
Laundry day was today. I looked under my bed and inside my dirty clothes for loose change, stuff that I'd gathered here and there around Anchorage and especially at theAirport!!
See, during theWinter months when I worked at theAirport I spent a lot of time out in theCold standing & walking theRamps and often used vaseline on my lips and face to keep my skin from drying out from theCold.
Well, I kept up theMoisturizing!! habit up until midJune when I finally lef theSecurityJob, and I must say,
albeit jokingly,
that even theSimple act of holding One's had out in front of them-to an Stranger looks like your begging for change!!
Case in point: a few times I was walking around in Uniform!!
With a stupid orange safety vest on, and would reach in my pocket for my mini-jar of Vaseline,
Pop theLid off, swipe a dab with my finger and then hold my dabbingHand close to me, palm up while theOtherHand capped & put theVaseline jar away.
Someone softly touches my hand when I'm not looking and "Clink-clink!!"
There's quarters in my palm.
I'm not making this up people.
after that I put Vaseline on my lips when I went to theRestroom.
Either I was thought of as "begging for change" because I was a Native, and considered an Poor security guard, or else Masi-theOwner of theEasyKart machines was walking by after reloading up his machines and took pity on me!!
LOL
-----------------------------------
Last summer, 2006, when I worked forGuardianSecurity as an patrolOfficer.
I'd walk downtown a few times hours before I had to report to work down on PostRoad where they keep OperationsBldg & theFleet of DutyVehicles.
One time I went into that big fancyHotel, wheretheHilton blg is located on theCorner.
It was anRumRunner restaurant, as they have two of them in downtown anchorage.
The young kids at theCounter looked at me, an clean cut Native in an relatively clean black uniform with a clean backpack and they told me that I should go to theBar up theStreet.
Now, nobody but a few people at theBar and in theRestaurant, theTwoKids-male & female and of course ME was there.
But I knew that according to theWay those kids acted, I was not welcome at that establishment.
fine, I thought.
No harm done.
So I go South, up theStreet and then I cross over to theOther RumRunnerz bar and I go inside (still in uniform, looking nice and "normal")
I see the place is packed withTourists of every stripe and age,
and I find an place to sit down.
I wanted to eat a good meal before driving an securityPatrol 8hrs and perhaps being asked to do 6more hours of OverTime as well.
My friends, I sit there over 30mins and not One waitress, nor theStandingMgr at that time, would acknowledge me. No one.
Of course, there were some Black folk, elderly & middle-aged nearby that were finishing up their meal and they sat for about 10mins talking and they too Noticed that I was being ignored.
Finally they left, smiling in sympathy at me and soon I was left by myself in that big section.
If you walk into RumRunnerz today, I sat off to theRight, you have to step Up though, through that Bannister looking rail that surrounds that particular section.
yes, covert and overt Racism exists here in Anchorage.
yes, Whites and nonWhites are guilty of thePractice.
We all need to cease such behavior.
And another place, called GasLightLounge,
Last summer I had applied to work for them, as they had placed an PaperAd looking for Security, for BarTenders, for Servers.
theManager at that time was Samoan.
He wouldn't talk to me, and for what ever reason, I was not hired there to work.
As for other places to eat and visit.
I've had good experiences with the rest of theDownTown bars and restaurants.
My fave hangout is Humpy's!!
I eat there once a week, and sometimes, theNightCrew's got their heads up their asses by letting me sit 10-30mins without acknowledgement before someone decides to take my order,
I don't go there for theBad service,
I go there for theGreatFood!! and to that end, I still tell my friends to eat at Humpy's.
maybe I'll start eating there earlier in the day, as this recent weekend I ate lunch there and was in & Out in 90mins.
I ordered some food, forgot to order appleCrisp alaMode and yet they brought me my Crisp. So someone remembered me!!
And also last year, during theMonth that I moved down here to Anchorage. I saw the advertisement that NSA northStarAgency had on television.
My parents even gave me a ride there at that business on Boniface.
I met with theBlackman that everyone there in theOffice called "LT", probably because he was an Leiutenant!! in that organization.
As I waited to speak to theLt, I noticed theAgencyOwner giving out paper paychecks to all theWaiting employees that were sitting on theCouches. theOwner said hi to me and I never saw him again.
After theLt talked with me, he sent me to go get my Alaska Criminal History report print out from theAlaskaStateTroopers office on East Tudor.
I bused there and back, with my "No criminal history" Report in hand and let NSA have a copy.
They scheduled for me to see theLt a few days later that week to interview.
I kept going back, twice, maybe 3 times as each time that I showed up to Interview, theLt wasn't there.
None of theSamoan ladies in theOffice(theOwnersWife!?, theBlackGirl/secretary, and some otherSamoan girls/daughters of someoneImportant there) were able to reach theLt by phone.
They kept telling me to come back. I did, and gave up after the 3rd try.
Racism and bigotry, intolerance and hate is also committed by Samoans & Blacks, and sadly-by Natives too.
Of course by now, you already know that theAlaskanNatives, as proud and noble people as they Can be. They too have their Alcohol problems, drugs, domestic violence, sex crimes and assaults way out there in theVillages!!
And those Natives also practice discrimination and reverseRacism.
I've experienced it from them, I've been denied further employment in theVPSO program by theVillage!! I once worked in,
after I left that particular village under duress, meaning that I'd had enough of their shit and left after one bout of Vandalism and attendant Apathy from all leaders and parents & relatives of theGuilty parties was too much for me.
Even theStateTroopers and that one Lt GregLavin, whom at that time was in charge of theVPSO program statewide, told me on the telephone that he talked to theVillage!! and then decided to Not let me back into theProgram.
did anyone care to talk to me and hear my side of the story?! NO.
did anyone care about me and about my rights?! NO.
of course, later on I hear all theHorror stories about me.
I hear all theBad things I did and what a monster and pervert I was etc.
I expected that, and from time to time I still have someone from theVillage!! talk to me and update me on local events.
theState too, those Whites in charge of theVPSO program are racist and unfair.
theState needs to pay for that and it will.
Both Racist & Unfair, even to include those AST that recruit and hire into theAST ranks.
For I have applied to AST from 2000 till end of 2004.
I should be an Trooper by now, I should have been one in 2001.
It hurts to not be allowed to do what I grew to love out in theVillages!!
Alaska Village Public Safety. That truly was a calling, even being AST would be acceptable.
For it does take someone very special, with lots of wisdom coupled with Life's experiences and good moral foundations to work far from civilization and to be at many times, theCalm in the eye of theStorm.
White people are, for the most part, in charge of theState and of this country yes.
But they are slowly losing their prominence, and they are scrambling privately to keep hold of their power.
It's true, you need to be up here to understand, or else to experience it as an Minority where ever you are to understand theOvertness and subtleness of Racism.
it isn't pretty, it isn't fair and yet at times it's necessary for our (us Minority's) progression in life. For us to learn and grow and to move on. But I'd rather do without theRacism and learn my lessons some other way thankYou.
Looking at this news article Online gets me mad.
I was going to take my time about posting my recent experiences while working at theTedStevensIntl Airport and theSubtle racism, apathy, neglect I experienced from theAirportPolice.
I was going to be nice when I would finally publish what I already have written up and is sitting here on theServer.
But no.
I'm going back and will post those experiences later on today.
I'm pissed off.
Racism and it's attendant negativity just denies you and me and others meaningful employment, meaningful relationships and a chance to be a part of certain Causes or forms of work.
Racism denies us minorities that equality factor that we long hope for and work to achieve amongst our White peers. Racism should not exist at all.
If Racism didn't exist at all. I'd probably be married to an old time friend of mine, a beautiful young Mormon girl I met 20yrs ago.
If Racism didn't exist I'd still be a part of that CorporateChurch of Jesus Christ that I am an member of, in name only. I'd have that Family, that nice job, those associated responsibilities that I worked hard to achieve and everything that I wanted in theChurch was denied to me.
By my white girlfriends, by my white church leaders, by my white mission president, by my white church friends.
Sometimes I really hate White people and you all know why if you've kept up on my Blog, I don't really hate them-I just dislike theRacist ones.
If Racism didn't exist, I'd be an StateTrooper, I'd have an vehicle, an house, and wife & kids too.
But my time will come.
I'm just being reserved, held for better things, this my God tells me.
And I hate it, I want to have fun, to party and have friends and to enjoy life NOW.
Not to help hold together theHuman race when theBad times come.
fuckit.
I'm posting my recent securitasUSA employment experiences.
If only to tell others, because, in the end, it helps keep Racism in check.
To tell theStory and to be heard and read by others.
Don't let anyone including Yourself be kept down, especially kept down by yourself.
You don't need a fucking church to help you,
you don't need an fucking state granted "yes you may" to exist and be happy.
You just need your own morals and your integrity that you've built up and kept strong over your lifetime to help you.
And yes, you do need God.
God is everything, without God and Christ, we are all nothing, we die.
their influence and love is as palpable to our spirits and our existence as theSun is to our eyes, to thePlants and our planet.
Take that influence away, we'd drop in our tracks, Literally.
We humans have much to be thankful for to God,
we shouldn't be practicing evil things like Racism and Discrimination.
And lest I give an negative impression here.
I have White friends. They are wonderful. They're honest, they're mean too.
They're numbers stretch from Nome, to Tennessee.
From SanDiego to Israel. Yes I have white friends.
Everyone should own a few White people!!
In fact they're theOnly ones that contact me via Phone, cellText, Email.
None of theOtherMinority friends of mine contact me.
Whites are reliable. As friends I know of none better. And I have served in both Military and LEO capacitys and fought alongside whites, my brothers and sisters I do trust.
Well, I've got to go looking for some emails now.
always,
theSam!!
samuellflyinghorse
anchorage, ak
Film a testament to Anchorage racism both blatant and subtle
ATTITUDES: Organization sponsors classes to help people change outlooks.
By GEORGE BRYSON
gbryson@adn.com
Published: July 8, 2007
Last Modified: July 8, 2007 at 03:54 AM
Racial bigotry can be as big and ugly in Anchorage as anywhere else. But it can also be small, subtle and sneaky.
Like the time at East High School when the new ninth-grader -- a Samoan kid -- stepped inside a class for advanced students, most of whom were Caucasian, and the teacher asked if he was in the wrong room.
That's all that happened, says UAA student Daniel Pulu, speaking as a witness in a new 26-minute film on racial discrimination in Alaska. But he was young, and the experience really upset him.
"That was my first time encountering the stereotype that Samoans weren't as smart as the rest of the kids," says Pulu, a leader in the Polynesian College Council.
Or the way whites who enter restaurants are sometimes served first, even when Native Alaskans sit down before them.
If it only happened once, you wouldn't dwell on it, says Aleut leader Larry Merculieff, speaking as another witness in the video, "Anchorage Is My Home." But when it happens to you repeatedly, you begin to get suspicious.
"We'd come in, then another couple would come in that was not of color, and then another -- and they would be served first," he says. "That happened to me frequently. But if I'm with a white person, then they'll come (serve)."
Even then, the waitress would often address the white person first, as if they had the responsibility for placing the order -- "Which I always found peculiar," says Merculieff, who now serves as director of the Alaska Native Science Commission.
Jumping to conclusions about people based on their race or ethnicity, stereotyping them -- assuming a Native is poor or has an alcohol problem, or a Hispanic is living in the country illegally, or a young Polynesian is a member of a street gang, or a Muslim is a potential terrorist -- is more prevalent in Anchorage than most residents realize, the film asserts.
But everyone stereotypes others to some extent, says Alaska Legal Services director Andy Harrington. Even members of minority groups do it.
"I think of racism as a disease to which we're all susceptible, just as we're all susceptible to the common cold," Harrington says. "(Stereotypes) are intellectually lazy shortcuts. They are used to replace actual reasoning ... getting to know people as actual people."
RACIAL DIVIDES
That's what prompted the 11-year-old Healing Racism in Anchorage organization last year to commission the film, produced independently by the Leadership Anchorage arm of the Alaska Humanities Forum.
Filmmakers Erick Cordero, Mollie Boyer and Marie Husa interviewed about a dozen residents willing to speak openly about racial divides in Anchorage. Then they edited about 13 hours of footage down to a half-hour film.
Available for free to groups and businesses that request it, the film focuses mostly on relatively mild forms of racism in Alaska. But serious charges are leveled as well.
A black woman wonders why there's such an absence of professionals "who look like me" in the building where she works.
A Filipino-American mother worries whether the anti-immigrant mood that's grown more pervasive in America in the wake of 9/11 might bring harm to her children.
A Hispanic woman decries the popular acceptance of explicitly racist language in Anchorage.
"When the person next to you says a racial slur, and you think, 'Oh, gee, that was inappropriate ...' the fact that you said it to yourself and you didn't say it out loud to that person -- it doesn't help," says Angelina Estrada-Burney, a board member of the Hispanic Affairs Council of Alaska.
DIFFICULT CONVERSATION
Some people, however, want to change that.
Following the film's recent premiere at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center before 120 people, about a quarter of the audience remained longer to participate in a public forum on local racism. Then about a dozen people signed up to attend an additional month of weekly classes sponsored by Healing Racism in Anchorage.
Meeting at the museum for the second time Thursday evening, members of the class identified themselves either as targets or unwitting perpetrators of racism. But hardly any of them were surprised by what they saw or heard in the film.
"I was not moved. I was not shocked. I was not surprised," said Anchorage educator Dennis Arashiro. "My reaction was 'OK, yeah -- so what?"
That's because he'd been aware that Anchorage had aspects of racism ever since 1961 when, as an 8-year-old, he'd just arrived here with his Japanese parents, Arashiro said. That's when his dad was told their family could not rent an apartment on Third Avenue because it didn't permit "Natives or Negroes" as tenants.
Which put his father in the absurd position of arguing that he wasn't Native or Negro, while simultaneously wondering why such discriminatory practices would be allowed in Alaska in the first place.
Attending the class and coming to terms with some of that history isn't easy, said Healing Racism in Anchorage founding member Patricia Partnow.
"It's a tough sale to whites, because we can avoid it," she said.
But you have to have a difficult conversation in order to have lasting and meaningful change, said group moderator Norwood Eggeling.
William Johnson, the sole black in the room, concurred.
"It's very difficult to have this conversation," he said. "We're just getting started with it here."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Find George Bryson online at adn.com/contact/gbryson or call 257-4318.
---------------------------------------
theSam!! says
Laundry day was today. I looked under my bed and inside my dirty clothes for loose change, stuff that I'd gathered here and there around Anchorage and especially at theAirport!!
See, during theWinter months when I worked at theAirport I spent a lot of time out in theCold standing & walking theRamps and often used vaseline on my lips and face to keep my skin from drying out from theCold.
Well, I kept up theMoisturizing!! habit up until midJune when I finally lef theSecurityJob, and I must say,
albeit jokingly,
that even theSimple act of holding One's had out in front of them-to an Stranger looks like your begging for change!!
Case in point: a few times I was walking around in Uniform!!
With a stupid orange safety vest on, and would reach in my pocket for my mini-jar of Vaseline,
Pop theLid off, swipe a dab with my finger and then hold my dabbingHand close to me, palm up while theOtherHand capped & put theVaseline jar away.
Someone softly touches my hand when I'm not looking and "Clink-clink!!"
There's quarters in my palm.
I'm not making this up people.
after that I put Vaseline on my lips when I went to theRestroom.
Either I was thought of as "begging for change" because I was a Native, and considered an Poor security guard, or else Masi-theOwner of theEasyKart machines was walking by after reloading up his machines and took pity on me!!
LOL
-----------------------------------
Last summer, 2006, when I worked forGuardianSecurity as an patrolOfficer.
I'd walk downtown a few times hours before I had to report to work down on PostRoad where they keep OperationsBldg & theFleet of DutyVehicles.
One time I went into that big fancyHotel, wheretheHilton blg is located on theCorner.
It was anRumRunner restaurant, as they have two of them in downtown anchorage.
The young kids at theCounter looked at me, an clean cut Native in an relatively clean black uniform with a clean backpack and they told me that I should go to theBar up theStreet.
Now, nobody but a few people at theBar and in theRestaurant, theTwoKids-male & female and of course ME was there.
But I knew that according to theWay those kids acted, I was not welcome at that establishment.
fine, I thought.
No harm done.
So I go South, up theStreet and then I cross over to theOther RumRunnerz bar and I go inside (still in uniform, looking nice and "normal")
I see the place is packed withTourists of every stripe and age,
and I find an place to sit down.
I wanted to eat a good meal before driving an securityPatrol 8hrs and perhaps being asked to do 6more hours of OverTime as well.
My friends, I sit there over 30mins and not One waitress, nor theStandingMgr at that time, would acknowledge me. No one.
Of course, there were some Black folk, elderly & middle-aged nearby that were finishing up their meal and they sat for about 10mins talking and they too Noticed that I was being ignored.
Finally they left, smiling in sympathy at me and soon I was left by myself in that big section.
If you walk into RumRunnerz today, I sat off to theRight, you have to step Up though, through that Bannister looking rail that surrounds that particular section.
yes, covert and overt Racism exists here in Anchorage.
yes, Whites and nonWhites are guilty of thePractice.
We all need to cease such behavior.
And another place, called GasLightLounge,
Last summer I had applied to work for them, as they had placed an PaperAd looking for Security, for BarTenders, for Servers.
theManager at that time was Samoan.
He wouldn't talk to me, and for what ever reason, I was not hired there to work.
As for other places to eat and visit.
I've had good experiences with the rest of theDownTown bars and restaurants.
My fave hangout is Humpy's!!
I eat there once a week, and sometimes, theNightCrew's got their heads up their asses by letting me sit 10-30mins without acknowledgement before someone decides to take my order,
I don't go there for theBad service,
I go there for theGreatFood!! and to that end, I still tell my friends to eat at Humpy's.
maybe I'll start eating there earlier in the day, as this recent weekend I ate lunch there and was in & Out in 90mins.
I ordered some food, forgot to order appleCrisp alaMode and yet they brought me my Crisp. So someone remembered me!!
And also last year, during theMonth that I moved down here to Anchorage. I saw the advertisement that NSA northStarAgency had on television.
My parents even gave me a ride there at that business on Boniface.
I met with theBlackman that everyone there in theOffice called "LT", probably because he was an Leiutenant!! in that organization.
As I waited to speak to theLt, I noticed theAgencyOwner giving out paper paychecks to all theWaiting employees that were sitting on theCouches. theOwner said hi to me and I never saw him again.
After theLt talked with me, he sent me to go get my Alaska Criminal History report print out from theAlaskaStateTroopers office on East Tudor.
I bused there and back, with my "No criminal history" Report in hand and let NSA have a copy.
They scheduled for me to see theLt a few days later that week to interview.
I kept going back, twice, maybe 3 times as each time that I showed up to Interview, theLt wasn't there.
None of theSamoan ladies in theOffice(theOwnersWife!?, theBlackGirl/secretary, and some otherSamoan girls/daughters of someoneImportant there) were able to reach theLt by phone.
They kept telling me to come back. I did, and gave up after the 3rd try.
Racism and bigotry, intolerance and hate is also committed by Samoans & Blacks, and sadly-by Natives too.
Of course by now, you already know that theAlaskanNatives, as proud and noble people as they Can be. They too have their Alcohol problems, drugs, domestic violence, sex crimes and assaults way out there in theVillages!!
And those Natives also practice discrimination and reverseRacism.
I've experienced it from them, I've been denied further employment in theVPSO program by theVillage!! I once worked in,
after I left that particular village under duress, meaning that I'd had enough of their shit and left after one bout of Vandalism and attendant Apathy from all leaders and parents & relatives of theGuilty parties was too much for me.
Even theStateTroopers and that one Lt GregLavin, whom at that time was in charge of theVPSO program statewide, told me on the telephone that he talked to theVillage!! and then decided to Not let me back into theProgram.
did anyone care to talk to me and hear my side of the story?! NO.
did anyone care about me and about my rights?! NO.
of course, later on I hear all theHorror stories about me.
I hear all theBad things I did and what a monster and pervert I was etc.
I expected that, and from time to time I still have someone from theVillage!! talk to me and update me on local events.
theState too, those Whites in charge of theVPSO program are racist and unfair.
theState needs to pay for that and it will.
Both Racist & Unfair, even to include those AST that recruit and hire into theAST ranks.
For I have applied to AST from 2000 till end of 2004.
I should be an Trooper by now, I should have been one in 2001.
It hurts to not be allowed to do what I grew to love out in theVillages!!
Alaska Village Public Safety. That truly was a calling, even being AST would be acceptable.
For it does take someone very special, with lots of wisdom coupled with Life's experiences and good moral foundations to work far from civilization and to be at many times, theCalm in the eye of theStorm.
White people are, for the most part, in charge of theState and of this country yes.
But they are slowly losing their prominence, and they are scrambling privately to keep hold of their power.
It's true, you need to be up here to understand, or else to experience it as an Minority where ever you are to understand theOvertness and subtleness of Racism.
it isn't pretty, it isn't fair and yet at times it's necessary for our (us Minority's) progression in life. For us to learn and grow and to move on. But I'd rather do without theRacism and learn my lessons some other way thankYou.
Looking at this news article Online gets me mad.
I was going to take my time about posting my recent experiences while working at theTedStevensIntl Airport and theSubtle racism, apathy, neglect I experienced from theAirportPolice.
I was going to be nice when I would finally publish what I already have written up and is sitting here on theServer.
But no.
I'm going back and will post those experiences later on today.
I'm pissed off.
Racism and it's attendant negativity just denies you and me and others meaningful employment, meaningful relationships and a chance to be a part of certain Causes or forms of work.
Racism denies us minorities that equality factor that we long hope for and work to achieve amongst our White peers. Racism should not exist at all.
If Racism didn't exist at all. I'd probably be married to an old time friend of mine, a beautiful young Mormon girl I met 20yrs ago.
If Racism didn't exist I'd still be a part of that CorporateChurch of Jesus Christ that I am an member of, in name only. I'd have that Family, that nice job, those associated responsibilities that I worked hard to achieve and everything that I wanted in theChurch was denied to me.
By my white girlfriends, by my white church leaders, by my white mission president, by my white church friends.
Sometimes I really hate White people and you all know why if you've kept up on my Blog, I don't really hate them-I just dislike theRacist ones.
If Racism didn't exist, I'd be an StateTrooper, I'd have an vehicle, an house, and wife & kids too.
But my time will come.
I'm just being reserved, held for better things, this my God tells me.
And I hate it, I want to have fun, to party and have friends and to enjoy life NOW.
Not to help hold together theHuman race when theBad times come.
fuckit.
I'm posting my recent securitasUSA employment experiences.
If only to tell others, because, in the end, it helps keep Racism in check.
To tell theStory and to be heard and read by others.
Don't let anyone including Yourself be kept down, especially kept down by yourself.
You don't need a fucking church to help you,
you don't need an fucking state granted "yes you may" to exist and be happy.
You just need your own morals and your integrity that you've built up and kept strong over your lifetime to help you.
And yes, you do need God.
God is everything, without God and Christ, we are all nothing, we die.
their influence and love is as palpable to our spirits and our existence as theSun is to our eyes, to thePlants and our planet.
Take that influence away, we'd drop in our tracks, Literally.
We humans have much to be thankful for to God,
we shouldn't be practicing evil things like Racism and Discrimination.
And lest I give an negative impression here.
I have White friends. They are wonderful. They're honest, they're mean too.
They're numbers stretch from Nome, to Tennessee.
From SanDiego to Israel. Yes I have white friends.
Everyone should own a few White people!!
In fact they're theOnly ones that contact me via Phone, cellText, Email.
None of theOtherMinority friends of mine contact me.
Whites are reliable. As friends I know of none better. And I have served in both Military and LEO capacitys and fought alongside whites, my brothers and sisters I do trust.
Well, I've got to go looking for some emails now.
always,
theSam!!
samuellflyinghorse
anchorage, ak
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