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Monday, December 03, 2007

all colored to the back of the bus NOW

no, it's not 1955, or is it?
Swimming in Rosa Parks' Footsteps: Workers for the Wealthiest Still Struggle for Dignity
Posted by Eliseo Medina, AlterNet
...........On Thursday, December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks put in a full day at her department store job in Montgomery, Ala. After work she got on the bus, paid her fare, got back off and re-boarded through the bus’s back door (as was required of black passengers at the time), and took a seat in the “colored” seating section…
On Friday, August 31st, 2007, security officer Wisly Jonatas clocked out of work at 11 p.m. after his evening shift on Fisher Island, an exclusive, private island off the coast of Miami, Fla. Like all Fisher Island service workers, Wisly took the ferry to and from the island for work every day. Tired from a long day at work, Wisly walked onto the ferry and sat down in the ferry’s segregated employee lounge…...........


.................Wisly had just taken his seat in the ferry’s segregated employee lounge when the ferry captain summoned and reprimanded him for not following a newly-instituted rule that prohibits workers from walking past island residents’ parked cars on the ferry to get to the employee lounge. For his insubordination, Wisly was forced to get off the ferry and wait for the next one. Five days later, he was fired from his job on the island….............

2 comments:

Commander Zaius said...

Doesn't suprise me, you've read some of my stuff relating on how a great many the newcomers to the coast feel they carry special status.

Unknown said...

yes, i have read your pieces on them.

i shouldn't be surprised but i am each and every time i read something like this.

the FIRST people i make friends with (at work or wherever) are #1) security and #2) the building maint/janitorial crew

how anyone can think they are above another (based on job) is beyond me

my momma didn't raise no dummy