Miami Dade Gives Former Offenders A Slight of Hope

Miami Dade Commissioners have recently voted to eliminate from the public employment application the question that required an applicant to answer whether he or she was subjected to a criminal record. It was called the "Ban the Box" on county job applications. Back in July I wrote a blog entitled "An Eternal Crime." My main argument was for government "to give those people back their lives by allowing them to be able to work to sustain themselves and their families, and not resort to criminal activities."

I applaud this new step in Miami Dade. It gives people hope. It has been estimated that 70 million Americans nationwide have some type of criminal record. I think it is counter-productive and ultimately ludicrous to keep those people from having an existence. They are people; they are here; they must live! When you say they should not be able to obtain employment, you have taken the mean of subsistence, life, away from them. And as a result, you have a backlash on the society which those individuals are part of. They resort to petty a life form and more crime, and with that, a whole generation and subsequent generations of them.

The commissioners of Miami Dade, led by Jean Monestime the Chairman, understood just that. People have to be able to earn a decent and dignified living. When you automatically subtract them from the job market, it is plain injustice. He wrote, "I made it a point of my chairmanship to reduce the income inequality gap, and this legislation will give people a chance to make an honest living..." It is reported that 19 states, 79 cities, and 21 counties have enacted such legislation to eliminate criminal history questions from their job applications. They recognize that people have to earn a living and certain mistakes in the past may most often not that people are societal threats. In contrast, as they have considered, it could do more harm by not allowing pass offenders to earn a normal existence and push them back to the underworld living and criminality.

It is understood that job seekers in Miami Dade would still undergo a criminal background check. Former offenders would still thus have to face the devil in their past. However, by allowing them into the door they would have a much fairer chance to prove their qualifications and their abilities to perform in the job market; and they could have a dialogue personally with their potential employers, proving to them that they have left behind bad behaviors that had pushed them to commit mistakes that no longer have any influence on them.

I praise the Miami Dade Commissioners who have supported this cause. President Obama and even the Pope have taken similar positions by visiting penitentiaries and pleading to help the offenders into rehabilitation. They both recognized that people could fail to certain vices. Yet, they should not be condemned to advance deeper into the inferno. They should instead be given a hand to adapt and improve their lives in their society. 

By E.C. GRANMOUN
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An Eternal Crime

In the movie “Life” Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence struggled with the fact of being condemned for life. They grew old, and they died. To most Americans who have committed certain mistakes and got caught and thrown behind bars, it is a similar experience. Whether they are in for life, or are out after satisfying their debts to society, convicts have often found themselves suffering the eternal nightmare of not being able to get employment and live a normal existence.

For those that are confined into prison for life, like Ray and Claude the characters in the film; whatever the cause, the severity, or even the baselessness of their cases; they must often resign to the fact that they are there for good, and they must settle with it. However, most offenders are usually liberated at a certain point. That’s where the eternal crime particularly takes hold. Once you were arrested, and you went to jail, it is like - life is over for you. You can’t vote; you can’t get a job; you cannot obtain financial aids for an education, and the list goes on. However, the worst part about it, the eternal crime against the offenders, is that they are not able to secure employment.

Recently, there has been a buzz about this issue. President Obama appears to have had it in the back of his mind to do something before the end of his term. He is talking about reform. He has commuted the sentences of a few nonviolent drug offenders that had been unfairly incarcerated for too long. And, he has even visited a federal prison setting as the only sitting president of the country to have done so. I praise the president. Further, Bill Clinton has confessed that his policies during his administration was wrong against criminal offenders. And, many Republicans are supporting Obama’s position, calling for reform in the justice system. Obama has defended his call for reform bluntly. He has declared, “Any system that allows us to turn a blind eye to hopelessness and despair – that’s not a justice system. It’s an injustice system.”

These two words - hopelessness and despair - bring me back to the film ‘Life’ again, where Ray and Claude are desperate for a way out to freedom that would never come. They are condemned for life. And, so are millions of our brothers and sisters out there who had served time behind bars for whatever reason, big or small. Whether it is a petty crime as shoplifting, or a serious act of murder, once somebody had been behind those bars, getting a serious or even a trashy job in these United States of America is next to impossible. Employers would not hire someone with a criminal past, whatever it had been. Whether a person has voluntarily admitted to his criminal past or not, it does not make a difference. He simply would not be hired once this background check had been conducted. Especially with the advent of the computer, the Internet, the social media and all, the bad history of a person is just a click away; plus, taking into consideration other discrimination factors.

One may judge, “well, the employers are right; the persons should not have committed any offense anyway.” But, remember! Jesus said that the person who had not sin should cast the first stone. And, nobody was worthy of doing so. We all should be able to discover some dirt in our closet past, as we may infer from President Obama., that the commuted prisoners had only succumbed to mistakes similar to his or ours. Then, why would we condemn the others for life? Why would we not allow them to live on?

When you take the mean of labor from a person, you just plainly take his life. That’s what we do when we don’t allow people who have been in jail to get a job. We literally murder them; and, with them all those depending on them, children, wives, husbands, and any others. And, with that, we are forcing them to live a permanent criminal life. If I may put it this way, the USA has ended up as a crime producer society in this circumstance. Those people who are not allowed to work, they must certainly have resorted to more crime. A man has to eat!

If Obama or anybody else wants to do some real justice, some real reform that would benefit these true helpless and desperate victims, and the American society at large, they must advocate laws that do not crucify the offenders after they have served their dues. They should not force the offenders to commit more crimes by being unable to secure normal and legal employments. As Obama mentioned, there should be measures in place to accommodate the individuals released from incarceration to reintegrate them in society. However, the Number One issue I advise the government to consider is to give those people back their lives by allowing them to be able to work to sustain themselves and their families, and not resort to criminal activities. We actually need legislation that bars employers from discriminating against people who had been in jail, at least for not-so-serious offences. 

By E.C. GRANMOUN
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The Natural Controversy of Same Sex Marriage

There was a time when the man was the sole dominant face of society. Women and children were subordinate. Then, you had the wild animals, the plants, and the lifeless objects. Later, varieties of human kinds began to intermingle. Some groups overcame others and subjected them to servitude. And, the story of society has moved on. Recently, the Supreme Court of the United States passed a landmark ruling that made it legal all over the territories of the giant nation for people of the same sex to unite into marriage. As everyone may already know, this is only the advancement of the popular trend that through time has transformed this nation from the state of paternalism to a free and liberal society where individuals’ choices are respected, if they are not intruding on others.

In the history of this country, there are several such events to remember, such as Women’s suffrage, Slavery emancipation, Equal Rights, Abortion, and so forth. Those are issues of diversity that a majority of the citizenry had come to agreement that people should be allowed freedom to exercise; or, the highest court of the law has ruled so. Still, the recent gay marriage ruling that makes same sex marriage legal all over the United States is one of a kind. Most people do not have an issue with human rights or equal rights. Therefore, they would not make a big fuss over the liberation of people of same the same gender to marry. You find two major arguments against this. One, that I immediately neglect and would not even discuss it, is the religious opinion, that it is not the will of God for individuals of the same sex to marry. I don’t even want to go into this; for, I would have to satisfy a whole debate on the nature of God and religion in which I am not interested.

The second argument involves the ‘natural’ approach. Many very rational individuals who would not have a problem with the equal rights aspect of the ruling have remained very uncomfortable when contemplating nature and its predispositions of mankind. These would agree that the women, the Blacks, and everybody else should be free and enjoying the same rights as the white males. They may also accept the fact that due to certain constraints abortion may, in most cases, be justified.  However, they cannot reconcile with the fact that two individuals of the same gender would involve in sexual intercourse together. They see it as counter to nature. They argue that naturally there is the male and the female. Their sexual organs are naturally placed to fit their purposes. The human beings should not deviate from such a predisposition. And, to solidify and authenticate their arguments, they have raised the fact that we only conceive when we utilize the sexual organs as predisposed by nature.

Looking at this simplistically, one would almost empathize with the naturalist viewpoint. On the other hand however, there is a test that the above could never satisfy. It is the fact that the human being has never remained in synch with nature. In fact, society and civilization are almost directly the opposite of nature. In nature life was brute and short. In civilization, life is refined and sophisticated. The point is, the human being has never remained on course with nature, but has traced his own route in the wilderness of nature to better his own existence. If we could agree to this, and we must agree; we could never force anybody to live according to the laws of nature simply because their ways are not to our taste.

The human being departed early from the course of nature. The man realized if he did not move away from the rudiment of nature to build his own suitable and enjoyable existence, he would not last but very shortly. He went against nature, moving from an isolated and lonely existence, forming social entities, building defensive structures, and organizing and planning to cohabit with nature’s savagery. Today, the days of the man are long, prosperous, and enjoyable. He is in fact ready to lead the most formidable battle with the savage nature. And, he would not allow anybody to push him back into the natural state. Should not the naturalist allow the gay man and woman the liberty to also enjoy his or her life according to the freedom of society?

The Supreme Court ruling has enforced just that. Gay people have the rights to redefine their lives from the rudimentary nature just like anybody else. Of course nature may have destined the sex organs, in some aspects, for reproduction. But, the gay human being may have come to view reproduction very differently from nature. Hence, he may choose to alter it, to alter its usage to fit his new consciousness. You and I may not be in that state of mine. But, who are we to say that the other person is wrong? Should we also say that the human being had to still be living in caves and huts? Should we say that a woman should still be condemned to conceive twelve children? I don’t think so. Then, let us all agree that the human being remains free to experience with nature the best way enjoyable to him.

 I don’t think I would offend anybody either if I try a little prediction. I don’t even want to mention marijuana. Most places are already taking some type of approach at legalization of it. It should not be too long before this highly preferred ‘buzz’ is considered just like alcohol all over the United States. Do you see another one? What about prostitution? They have claimed that it is one of the oldest ventures. Could you foresee the man and the woman free to liquidate this prize of theirs on the corner or all over the social media? The last may appear at first upsetting to many. But, don’t be! This should be considered as one of the most ancient practices of man as well. Some people have translated the version of Eve and Satan in the Garden of Eden as a seduction of the woman by the snake. This is radical. Yet, I believe that one of the big contests that we may undergo during our days is the liberation of sexual intercourse between humans and animals.

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In The Shoe Of Miss #Dolezal

A majority applauds her. Some consider her a villain. Me, I call Rachel Dolezal “An Ultimate One-Woman Revolutionist.” To those who applauded her, to those who cursed her, I would say that it was all the consequence of her revolution. I call her a revolutionist because a revolution is most definitely a radical undertaken to alter a certain course. Rachel Dolezal took the most stringent approach in her attempt to participate in the struggle of the Negro being.

When the news erupted, my initial reaction was that she simply wanted to live as a black person. I could not figure anything wrong with that; except of course that she may have violated the law by lying to maintain the blackness. I had yet to learn much about her background, her life, and her work in the black community. After I had arrived to know more about the life of Miss Dolezal and her position vis-à-vis the Negro race, I have reserved nothing but praise for her. And I would encourage her to consider any pitfall from this as a backfire of her endeavor.

What is the best way to understand the suffering of another human being than to experience the suffering yourself? Perhaps if the slave owners had subjected themselves to the experience of the Negro slaves, they would have had a change-of-heart that other human beings should not have been treated so inhumanly. Miss Dolezal went all the way to even alter her physical stature to adopt the Negro identity in order to live like a black person. We may never know exactly what might have pressured the lady to go that way. People have speculated that she is crazy, that she is a liar, that she is a phony, and all. Some of her action may force us to certainly empathize with the above. Her parents have described her as a pathetic liar; her adopted brother has painted a mentally displaced picture of her; and other people are just baffled by her comportment. Yet, what Miss Dolezal did was just trying to be as Negroid as Negro could be. She adopted a Negro identity and attitude; she altered her hair and skin color; and she joined the Negro person to live like one.

Many black females, and even black young men, have continually been trying through time to approach closer and join the Caucasian being. Throughout colonization and even to now, many black men and women have procreated with white individuals, and those kids have benefited significantly by having associated with their Caucasian progenitor side. More recently, we have seen black women crowning with long hair that sometimes makes it almost impossible to determine their race from behind. And more absurdly, many young black individuals have bleached their bodies to make them appear more light skin.

Miss Dolezal does not fit within the above disorder. She was in contrast on a mission to discover Black, to live black, and to fight on the side of the black person. Of course she could have done it some other ways, probably more effectively, that people could have comprehended her better and commonly accepted her. However, I guess she wanted to do it that way, or some way. She might have miscalculated the eventual outcome; bu,t that was what she wanted – to identify, live, and struggle like a Negro. With that, she certainly attained some highs and lows. (1) She received a scholarship to Howard University. Well, perhaps she would be capable as a white woman to obtain financing for her education some other ways. (2) She has been a professor of Afro-American Studies. She could be a professor of any other subject of her liking. (3) She became head of a NAACP chapter. It is very likely that she could ascend some other echelon. (4) She was also Head of some police order. Likewise, it is claimed that she was victim of hate crime and other abuses.

Now, Miss Dolezal, a Caucasian woman, entered the Negroid shoe not for the superficial aspects that most Blacks have done, (white privileges, better skin color and hair style). She appears to have had a deep sense of wanting to experience the life of the black person and to fight along side of him. She stated that she expected her strategy to fire back. Anyway, that was what she wanted to do. She did it. Most often, that is the way a revolution ends. You win some; you lose some. Miss Dolezal has now been somewhat derided over the media. Nevertheless, she would remain that one white woman who had gone so far as to enter the Negro’s skin to fight along with him.

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The Red Cross’ Fiasco In Haiti Goes The Haitian Way

When the earthquake of January 12, 2010 occurred in Haiti, the tiny and impoverished island nation automatically became the focus of the rapacious media. Some people took it as a natural catastrophe. Many considered it a punishment for the cursed land of voodoo, zombies, and demons. No matter what, the most astonishing sentiment was the outpouring of grief and support: (1) People from everywhere, from all denominations of life sprung forth to collect aid for the population in difficulty; and (2) so many God-loving individuals willing and ready to offer the necessary assistance to booster the Haitian people back to normal existence.

It did not take long for the benevolence, sentiment of helping and giving to recede, however. Haiti and its misery; its hundreds of thousands of people under tents; its down-ridden mountain tops; its piles of garbage; its young men and young women in the infernos of the slums; all the dreams of repairing Haiti; and its incompetent, ignorant, and corrupted leaders under the strong arms of imperialism; they all reentered the shadows. There was one new sphere to the phenomenon yet. It was the news about how much the poorest nation of the Americas was being abused and exploited by the so-called good Samaritans. And, one of these major villains was the Red Cross. Recently, the headlines about this organization’s squandering money destined to help victims of the earthquake were plentiful. One of them read, “How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti and Built Six Homes,” by Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Laura Sullivan, NPR. Above the title, they showed a couple of minuscule shacks on dirt ground with two kids and their bikes and a woman.

The recent news should not be surprising.

Back a couple of years earlier, the bell had already rung. The controversy was about a plan of the Red Cross to construct a luxury hotel and conference hall with money that was donated to help poor and displaced Haitians. Therefore, as everything else in Haiti, the aid organizations arrived and maintained the same irreconcilable mentality of chaos and fiasco of Haiti.

According to the above article, “The Red Cross received an outpouring of donations after the quake, nearly half a billion dollars.” And for an institution with a reputation of successful philanthropy in the American society, the Red Cross has failed badly in Haiti. In fact, it is mentioned that the Red Cross used the Haitian crisis as a mere opportunity for fundraising; and, the organization has claimed success publicly. But, on the ground in Haiti, and according to verifiable records, it has shown that “the charity has broken promises, squandered donations, and made dubious claims of success.”  For instance, (1) they said that they have given homes to some 130,000 individuals. Investigative reports could account only for 6 newly built homes. (2) They offered an ambitious plan to “develop brand-new communities.” None was built.

Why the organization failed so badly?

The investigators pointed out some common issues. (1) A dependence on outsiders who did not even speak the Haitian language. (2) Discrimination against Haitian workers and job applicants. (3) Organizational lacking of developmental project expertise. (4) Too much overhead costs. The Red Cross itself has admitted that the event in Haiti was a trying moment for them. One project manager stated that the reason why a certain project failed was that they “didn’t have the know how.” Another blamed micro management from Washington D. C. that caused everything to take “four times as long.” Another major issue the organization raised for the failure of completing projects was the difficulty of clearing land titles in Haiti. The investigation has revealed however that the Red Cross has simply done a very bad job.

They wrote. “Instead of making concrete improvements to living conditions, the Red Cross has launched hand-washing education campaigns…,” these were “not effective when people had no access to water and no soap.” And, when the cholera epidemic broke out a few months after the quake, “the biggest part of the Red Cross’ response – a plan to distribute soap and oral re-hydration salts – was crippled by “internal issues that go unaddressed,”…”

The Red Cross’ fiasco in Haiti goes the Haitian way.

I remember in college how they instructed us that American business people  and officials would break the law once they were out of the United States territories. They would act according to the norms and vices of their host countries. The moment of the earthquake in Haiti proved such an American tendency. When the disaster had just struck, the world came in mass, painting a picture as if Haiti was going to be rescued forever. After a little while, however, it was the big question. What happened to all the money that had been collected? The answer was muddied.  Haiti remained in its misery; a mass of people had not exited the tents; and those who had found the badly constructed shacks were rejoined the same life of misery in the slums and ghettos.

Many nations, particularly the big so-called friends of Haiti had promised much money. That likewise has remained controversial. The donors have claimed they have already given out much. Haitians officials and critics have not agreed to the claim. No matter what, the philanthropists, the organizations, the mercenaries, all have come and gone. Many players, Haitians and foreigners, have cashed out majorly. It is the Haitian way. There is no law, no rule; everything goes the corrupted way. In fact, the reporters pointed out that it has remained a norm for the organizations to botch “delivery of aid after disasters…” Therefore, in Haiti it should not be surprising. It has gone as always – the Haitian way. 

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This Electronic Age Reveals the Young Men in Peril

One young man dead; the police to blame; Baltimore erupted into flame; such has been a common affair in the black communities in the great United States of America - Florida, New York, Missouri, New Jersey, California, South Carolina, and on and on. Some children are in peril. A nation remains divided. What is going on? Who is to blame? I recall one day I was picking up some food at a tiny café in Little Havana Miami. I overheard some White Hispanic officers, a half dozen or so, talking about how they despised young black males. I was terrified. They had one familiar argument. The young black men had an attitude. I went my way. They went their ways. Yet, I felt that young Afro men in America were facing an uphill battle.

It is about 20 years later that I am writing this blogpost. In the white house, there is a half-black-half-white president of the big white men’s country. People should mistake that the relationship between Black and White in the United States must have highly improved. It in contrast, appears to have deteriorated. During the last few months, or at best the last couple of years, a rash of cold murdering of young black men by the police all about the country has proven that the issue of race in the United States is still to be reconciled. 

This murdering of young black men by police should not be taken for anything new in this country. In fact, the mistreatment of poor Blacks here has ever remained a common affair. In general, black people in the United State have been kept a degenerated and deprived mass. No wealth, no suitable education, no well organized structure to serve the Negro interest, people of African origin here are left in a conundrum of societal inefficiencies that have held them captives of their white Caucasian compatriots, as destined from their backdrop of slavery. It is not a surprise that the young black men have developed attitudes, and the police the keeper of the dungeon have brutalized them. However, the new age of social media has brought to light what used to customarily be done in darkness.

Young black men in America have always been more exposed to the injustice of racism. Ever since slavery, where such young men were lynched for the mere fact of looking at a white female; or when they were condemned for crimes committed by other people; and, the actual brutality of the law enforcement on them simply for the fact that they are Negroes. Black people here in general have suffered most often silently under the racist system that has marginalized their race. No one wants to condone any illegal actions of the young black folks. Yet, it as criminal for the white police to go about massacring them mercilessly. 

Everything was done in the dark until cameras started to branch out on all standing structures, and individuals with smart phones and tablets were ready to snap a picture of any action at every joint, every angle. I remember Rodney King, with his face all bulged up, and all the protests in Los Angeles and all across the country. Then, there was no more, as if the police had stopped brutalizing black men. This was 1992, the age of camcorders. Today, is the age of social media. Not only that a camera is posted at every angle of our activities, the network of people are up and ready to transmit with the tapping of a finger to every corner of the globe and even up into the heavens. Nothing is hidden; no place is too far.

Hence, the peril of the young black men in the United States is exposed. Not only that, this society incarcerated the Blacks in slavery for centuries; not only that these Blacks were abandoned to failure by the exploiting and racist society at liberty; now the young black men have been revealed to have been suffering extreme discrimination, brutalization, and even extermination by the judicial institutions of the country that not only render false judgments to imprison the young black men, but also allow the brutal racist police forces to exterminate the young men. It is no longer a secret. The electronic and social media society must have clearly acknowledged.

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Always Keep Your Mind and Your Eyes on Your Child

A child is dead and a dad is behind bars – sad story that one would not wish to hear. When I am walking about with my social worker’s mindset and I observe a parent walking in front with a child behind, it automatically rings the alarm bell. This parent does not take 100% charge of the child. Those are certain criteria that the child welfare worker considers when investigating the family environment. Very often you hear that a child is dead from heat exposure after having been left in the vehicle by a parent. Your heart is tearing apart thinking about the suffering that such a child must have gone through to meet his or her demise. And, such incidents that could have been averted.

This father James Koryor, as reported by NBC News, is arrested on “suspicion of manslaughter and child abuse…” It obviously appears to be a case of negligence of him. Detectives revealed that he went to the liquor store, “bought a bottle of gin, drank it on the way home and fell asleep inside his house.” All along, there were two children of his in his care. At the end, the younger one, 2 years old, was found unconscious in the vehicle and died in the hospital. His 5-year-old brother either exited by himself or taken by his father. Surely one could detect gross negligence here. The father went out to buy liquor with his children, he got drunk on the way home with the children still in the vehicle, he lost his sanity, and he abandoned his responsibility of the children. According to the police, the younger child "struggled to get out of the vehicle before dying."

Now, even though this father was overly negligent, we all still need to take note. For, in many other cases we have heard relatively sane and stable individuals who have forgotten their kids in vehicles and who have suffered the same ill fate. We are living in a highly pressurized and even inflated society. People are usually on the run, and occupied by a multitude of activities. People’s minds are often full with worries about all different types of concerns about life. And often time, it gets to some certain degree that people have lost control. Perhaps you and I have already developed the skills that would keep us away from such a tragedy. Yet, we must have a message for the others. Always keep your mind and your eyes on your children.

As the social worker, it beeps when I observe a child walking behind the parent. When I say that your eye should always be on your child, I mean that you have a certain attitude that you must develop to make sure that you cannot forget your child. Number one would obviously be to not get drunk with your child in the car. Number two, which must in reality be number one, you should keep such a close watch on your child that the possibility that you could forget him in the car should be zero. When I am caring for a child, I automatically know that I am the protector of the child. (1) I know that I have to provide for this child in my care. (2) I know that there are things that I must refrain from doing with this child around. (3) I also give the child his limit, particularly of what he should stay away from and what he should not do. And, we all would be safe. 

When relatives in the home asked the older sibling for the smaller one, he responded that he was sleeping. They automatically assumed that the child was in a room somewhere.  With your mind and your eyes on your child, it is very unlikely that you would undertake any activities, allow the child to undertake any such activities, or to forget the child long enough for such preventable tragedy to occur. The lesson to learn is. Do not assume. Make sure to check and verify when you are not sure. We don't want to waste our little love ones.

  

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