Weep for Brenda as she quits her job over the desktop hoodie on her company computer.
I needed to do something. The Monday after the trial ended, I went to my job at a small doctor’s office and made my computer desktop wallpaper (which was not viewable to the public) an image of a hoodie. This image had sprung up on the Internet and social media as an expression of support for the Martin family. It is meant as an acknowledgement that this senseless death had not gone unnoticed.
Then, at the end of the week, President Obama went into the White House press room and made history. He said that Martin could have been him. As the only president we’ve had who could say such a thing, Obama conveyed his experience being a person of color and told the world that his story wasn’t unique. Our president asked that we “do some soul-searching.” He let us know that he didn’t have much faith in politicians organizing conversations on race, but he said that he thought that in our families, churches and workplaces we might succeed.
But that’s not what happened in my case. On Aug. 1, at the end of a long work day, my boss called me into his office. Apparently, during the two weeks since I had selected the hoodie image for my computer desktop, some of my co-workers had complained. They felt that this image, which could be seen only when I logged in or minimized all the windows open on my screen, was inappropriate. My boss, looking distressed, told me that I had to change it. […]
Despite Obama’s request that we work to advance the conversation on race, I’m sorry to say that I was complicit that day in halting our progress on this task. An opportunity that should have been a prelude to a real discussion on the symbolism of the hoodie or the anxiety it provoked was lost. […]
I didn’t know Trayvon Martin, but his story touched me. What made me feel sad about his death was not going to dissipate with the removal of an image from my computer screen. And although the anxieties of my co-workers might be assuaged with its removal, I knew, too, that the silence that would be sure to follow would be misconstrued as progress. I wasn’t comfortable with that.
Where upon our uncomfortable Ms. Brenda handed in her resignation.
She wanted a discussion on race and her co-workers let her down. I’m sure when she explains that in her upcoming interviews, bosses at workplaces with workers of better moral fiber will just jump at chance to hire her.
Good luck, Ms. Brenda!
Thug Liberation!!!1!
Our president asked that we “do some soul-searching.”
So? I’ve asked that our president take a hike.
Think he will, Brenda?
A wannabe street tough’s aspirations to the Thug Life™ “tragically” cut short touched her? Really?
Or was it the outrageous fiction put forth by race hustlers and shameless hucksters in the Media?
I would love to hear what Brenda’s reaction would be if, instead of her posting the hoodie screensaver, a co-worker had posted a photo of Zimmerman or his/her favorite gun. You know, to start a dialogue on personal safety and the 2nd Amendment.
i would’ve let her have her stupid picture but she would’ve needed to shut her stupid whore mouth
Despite Obama’s request that we work to advance the conversation on race, I’m sorry to say that I was complicit that day in halting our progress on this task.
– Yes, yes sweetie. Teh Messiah has spaken and you, as a deeply faithful true believer, and white bread wannabee (once you’ve had black you never go back), must do all in your power to obey and fight back against your Western privaledged white guilt and support the cause and the magic Narrative™ with every fiber of your totally Marxo-Socialost dogma indoctrinated and mind dead being.
– For teh children!!!!onetyeleven111!!!
– “Marxo-Socialost©” is a protein wisdom copyright 2013.
Okay then. She’s working as at some (probably) minimum wage job in a crap economy and she decides to Take a Stand™ over Trayvon?
Practice saying “Do you want fries with that?”, honey.
Dear Brenda,
This whole episode was a test to see who was easily gulled by known liars. A test to see if you are able to do rational thought or not. You showed the whole of your office and your boss that you are not able to think rationally. This is not recommended in an employee who deals with the public.
They didn’t even fire you for that but you went further in demonstrating that you are controlled by emotional responses to the outside world by quitting, in this economy, though you may also believe that the economy is fine because the same people tell you that as told you to support Trayvon.
Now by writing this WaPo piece you have announced to world that you are ruled by your emotions and easily fooled by authority figures when they lie to you. You should be offered Susan Rice’s old job soon, you’re a perfect fit.
Conversation? OK. Thugs get slugs.
Your turn.
“…..there will be war and rumors of war, and the number of the beast will be upon the true believers and 666 shall be the number of the beast, and those that believe the beasts lies and blasphamy against God shall be cast down into the firey pit of the serpent….”
– Sic, sic, sic pretty well descibes the Socialosts.
– Its like what you see in Egypt right now (in spite of the mediots trying everything they can to spin it), the people are telling the MB to go home and kicking ass when they don’t, not the military, and the MB, so peace loving they use every moment of chaos to burn Coptic churches in their peace loving way, want nothing to do with that TRVTH, no sir-ree.
That’s pithy Pablo.
Now by writing this WaPo piece you have announced to world that you are ruled by your emotions and easily fooled by authority figures when they lie to you
She had admitted it to herself when she pulled the level for Obama. This was just her finally coming out of the closet…
Love this place!
Not “my computer”, but “your employer’s computer” – big difference.
Probably figures she can make the big bucks in the inevitable workplace-discrimination lawsuit.
Even more probable that someone put her up to it…
– Her employer didn’t build that, Messiah said so!
– In any other century these skankettes and their bretheren would be relagated to County mental health clinics and forgotten.
– Al Jazeera’s english channel has stopped broadcasting.
Now that’s a freakin’ joke. There’s certainly grief there, Tracy Martin and Sabrina Fulton, but their larger-than-life exposition of it, and theirs and their agents who are using Trayvon’s death to blame-game elements not even at fault I see as disingenuous at best. Blame is always shareable, so, let’s look at Trayvon’s ‘family’, such as it was, and get the bigger picture, that Trayvon Martin’s death was as much resultant of bad parenting as it was hoodies in the dark, or White Hispanic racism, or guns doing what they are supposed to do.
Tracy Martin divorced Sabrina Fulton when Trayvon was only three years old. Tracy Martin hooked up (‘married’) Alicia Stanley (who, by all accounts, did the real work of raising Trayvon for almost a decade). Tracy Martin, antsy-pantsy, then divorced Alicia after hooking up with Brandi Green, owner of that Sanford condo. That divorce yanked Trayvon away from Alicia Stanley (his ‘rock’, and a good person, if you do due research) and flung him back to his bio-mother Sabrina Fulton, who by that time had a ‘newer’ family. Trayvon was but the ex-husband’s son. And, without Alicia, Trayvon found Trouble in the lure of the street, and his intro to thug culture.
This ‘mother’ Sabrina (who threw Trayvon out of her home three times; third time resulted in his exile to Sanford) who was but a bio-mother, the one you see crying on CNN, knew very little about the later-edition Trayvon. Sabrina’s been coached to ‘know’ her son. Dad Tracy had little to do with raising him; there was always another Brandi to hook up with.
Now, after, these two ‘parents’ spend time together, coached by lawyers and handlers, who only want to wring every bit of political capital (and jingle capital) they can out of the untimely death of Trayvon Martin. A death that would never have happened if he’d had decent parents who actually gave a damn about him.
But, instead of focusing on the culture that allows kids to become thugs, and their ‘parents’ to dodge their obligations to their get, let’s tear down the institute of marriage some more, shall we?
– Here is an Englesh version OnTV Egypt live stream. (The longest HTML link I’ve ever seen!)
serrd8, that’s one of the things that always galled me about the parents of Trayvon and, by extension, the media.
The parents of Trayvon were long divorced, and Trayvon was staying with someone who wasn’t even his parent. Some exceedingly obvious questions that should have been asked, (why was Trayvon staying with someone other than Mom or Dad, for instance) yet were ignored, all in order to push the “racist crackers with guns want to shoot down the black man” narrative.
The fact that Mom and Dad are profiting from the death of their son tells me all I need to know about why Trayvon met his untimely death.
Now Blake, who are we to judge the
avariciousgrieving parents of young Trademark? Don’t all parents of “tragically murdered” yoots trademark their dead child’s name on their way home from the funeral parlor?– Don’t all parents of “tragically murdered” yoots trademark their dead child’s name on their way home from the funeral parlor EBT office scum sucking race baiting lawyers building Kentucky fried chicken restaurant ?
typical whorehouse flower
*hothouse*
This gal even I could sell a used car to, if it were on blocks and on fire.
Whorehouses have flowers too, y’know. Just watch that your watering can is galvanized.
Wait, is this the WaPo or the Onion?
– “I wouldn’t recommend getting your watering can anywhere near that whorehouse flower. She has a lip desease they havn’t identified yet.” –Cousin Ernie, Lampoon Christmas vacation
Actually, unless Barry had gone to schools more like what Trayvon had gone to and less like what Barry actually had gone to, no, he can’t actually say he could have been Trayvon back in the day, either. Never mind the Indonesian public and parochial schools. Punahou and the Miami-Dade public schools Trayvon went to might cover the same grades, and teach the same age kids, but as far as environment, they might as well be on different planets.
Every time I think our “friends” on the other side can’t become more shallow, more superficial, and just plain idiotic? They surprise me.
Jeebus. In a sidecar….
The Monday after the trial ended, I went to my job at a small doctor’s office and made my computer desktop wallpaper
i’m sure that’s part of her duties?
Are we sure this isn’t some as-yet-undiscovered clause in the ACA?
I say our good Miss Brenda was merely ahead of the curve. If only she could have held out until Jan 1 2014…
Damn, I’ve got a leftover “by”. Insert in the previous message as you see fit.
she’s been ploocked more times than the rose of tralee biggest whoo-er on fifth avenue i’m told
or so says caddyshack maggie o’hooligan
FORGET MUMIA, RESURRECT TRAYVON!
Perhaps cynical, avaricious, delusional, misinformed assholes whose one “argument” (or more properly technique) is shouting “raaacist” (until they profit from shakedown settlements) are not the best choice to advance the national dialogue on race. Just a thought. (“boy”, hears Maureen Dowd, unspoken, yet she claims to hears it just the same, Precious. )
– Speaking of teh old cow, do you get the idea she is a little bit pissed for losing her seat at the Progressive table?
Brenda…. just make believe Travon was in his 68th trimester. It will make it easier for you.
Cold, anchovy, very cold.
I denounce anchovy.
I denounce myself for laughing at anchovy’s remark.
I denounce leigh for her remark about trademarking Saint Trayvon’s name.
I double denounce myself for agreeing with leigh.
At the rate I’m going, I just may have to put myself on double secret probation.
You know, the cynical previous employer that I am, now an employee who finds himself constantly distracted by the drama queens infecting my work environment, wonders if just perhaps Brenda may not have been such a wonderful employee, and her employer, knowing her well, allowed this to play out so they could avoid firing her and having to pay unemployment… …showing that she has been played even more gratuitously than others have suggested above.
Blake, we’re all on double secret probation.
Meanwhile, Sybrina Martin is out denouncing the Stop & Frisk laws in NYC. She’ll be doing motivational speaking soon.
” She’ll be doing motivational speaking soon.”
for “scam de system” i’m sure.
” could avoid firing her and having to pay unemployment”
yes so young and stupid and insubordinate.
The “Reverend” Al better watch his skinny behind.
“The “Reverend” Al better watch his skinny behind.”
black folks problems ain’t money. they are something else.
I’m surprised that the Left hasn’t managed to find a deep pockets Saddam to fund parents and has to do this whole dance for the money. Must be because both funding the lawyers and the dance itself are the really important things.
*loving parents who presented the most graceful bearing of grief I’ve ever seen”
That speaks volumes about how idiotic this lady is. Its not real hard to learn the truth about how “loving” his parents were. She’s a terrific example of the core Obama voter.
Dear Ms. Brenda:
If your side of the coveted conversation on race consisted of hoodie wallpaper, you were doing it wrong. Conversation implies some communication of ideas. Verbally. Bumper stickers, protest signs and (least of all) computer desktop wallpaper are not conversation, and are not persuasive to people with more than a few synapses to rub together. At best, these are conversation starters, but they are not the only way to start a conversation, nor are they necessarily the best.
Try again. If you want that conversation, you need to do better.
Sincerely,
A Middle-Aged White Guy
White people. If it wasn’t for white people and their goddamned
affinity for people like them that blacks definitely don’t have and it wouldn’t matter if they did because raaaacistprivilege, the lives of all black people would be absolutely awesome. Fucking Whitey.The last time Amash brought the issue to a vote, the GOP leadership backed him. But no one expected the vote to be that close, and the GOP leadership does not want to get into a pissing match with Obama about which side is stronger on terrorism.
Or which side is more pro-liberty.
To read this Moran piece one would think it was the ‘rats that voted this down against the wishes of the GOP. I guess he doesn’t expect his readers to have looked at the vote.
Go Team R!
Hoodie wallpaper was her unilateral attempt to create a solidarity ribbon for Trademark. In her office, among a handful of her co-workers. For a few seconds. At the very beginning of the workday.
Because self-referential meta ideas just have that much power.
There’s the problem. Or do you read Moran so the rest of us won’t have to? ;-)
what’s with this “our president” bullshit anyways
Finally, a good point from the joyous-footed one.
Back when Bush was President, he was “your President”.
Based on her demonstrated conversational skills, I expect her letter of resignation went something like this:
Dear [Former Employer]:
Because people in this office are unwilling to have a real conversation about race, I hereby resign.
#Justice4Trayvon
“Because people in this office are, like, unwilling to have a like, “real conversation”, ya know about race and stuff, I’m, like, resigning.”
FTFY
The real point is that she somehow imagines her resignation will be making a stronger point than her sticking around and having a real conversation about race.
Possibly. In a sane world.
A real newspaper would have interviewed her former co-workers to get their opinions. But Teh Narrative would not be supported by a great many WTF headscratchings.
oh jesus god it’s started
hide your kids hide your wives
the shit is gittin real
I didn’t know Trayvon Martin, but his story touched me.
This sums up the whole problem in a nutshell. Nobody knows Trayvon; they only know the story of Trayvon, and it’s a twisted fairy tale cooked up by race hustlers and the professionally aggrieved. But hey, let’s all quit our jobs rather than let anyone puncture our illusions!
(Also, it’s really cute that she pretends to empathy toward Zimmerman, what with his having to live with the awful ‘fact’ that he murdered an innocent choir boy.)
I blame global
warmingclimatechangedisruption.an innocent choir boy.
Whoa, someone heard Trayvon sing?
Was he a contralto, an alto, a mezzo-soprano, soprano or a by-god genuine coloratura?
Beatboxer.
Bargain-counter tenor?
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