THE FIELD HANDS ARE NOW CRUCIFIED

The Department of Children and Families have long utilized a method to keep employees of color in their place. There are certain employees of color working undercover (or in a few cases in the open) to betray their peers. Now a different wind seems to be blowing throughout the DCF Plantation in which the field hands (undercover employees of color promoting ol' master's dirty work) are now in a precarious position. It has been brought to my attention by an employee of DCF Plantation that ol' master at Connecticut Juvenile Training School has decided 'the field hands' are now expendible. Historically we read how oppressors,tyrants, despots or powerbrokers use an ethnic group to betray others in the group; rewards for such dirty work range from an extra biscuit or piece of chicken (rewards in American South during slavery) to money,titles,or a pat on the head for luck. Yet, history also points out clearly how oppressors discard these villainous ethnic turncoats once an objective is complete.
The man of color approached me with these words in a parking lot on sunday at a DCF Plantation facility in Greater Hartford. He shared detailed stories of how management deceives or bullies employees of color by using ethnic traitors. Then he stood and laughed when saying "but the field hands are now crucified" because the DCF management no longer needs them. His words certainly gave me pause for reflection about injustices on the DCF Plantation and its satellite facilities..