Friday, August 10, 2012

FREE WILL, NO WILL

The British philosopher John Locke once wrote about the concept of 'free will.' Locke basically said that the will is free, allowing you to do what is necessary, unless of course the will is hindered in some manner. He then goes on to use an illustration about a person sitting in a room looking at a door. The person at this point has free will, in so far as they can move toward the door. However, upon reaching the door this person discovers it is locked, now there is no free will due to an obstruction (locked door).
  The concept Locke writes about- free will- is in full effect on the DCF Plantation and it's satellite sites throughout Greater Connecticut. There are employees of color working on DCF Plantations that choose to exercise a God given right of exercising free will as it relates to denouncing, exposing, and demanding for bias-racial injustice to stop. But as Locke states, often, obstruction stops an exercise of free will. Let me list a few of the "locked doors" fighters for justice experience on DCF Plantations: (1) administrators do not acknowledge there are racial issues, (2) the unions representing employees of color negotiate with management on safe issues, (3) other employees side with management to betray their peers, (4) conditions of bias and racism are part of a culture that is normalized by management on DCF Plantations statewide. Now we can fully understand how /why there is really no "free will" on DCF Plantations in spite of mechanisms touted as giving a voice to employees (Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action, etc). Now a statemnt has to be made, there is a charade being played out on DCF Plantations called free will, no will.

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