HOSTILE MILIEU FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR:MANAGEMENT PROTECTING THEIR OWN

The DCF Plantation website has been contacted about recent incidents at Connecticut Juvenile Training School involving employees of color. Sources indicate certain white employees are / have been creating a hostile workplace environment for employees of color. Most recently a white employee had the unmitigated gall to place negative missives about people of color in public places. Then to add insult to injury, the white employee is verbally harassing employees of color- which includes a black female Union Steward. Several employees of color have gone to CJTS management and objected to this new form of racism (2013 style); however the vociferous protestations from people of color [ to Human Resources] is lost in management's indifference toward these complaints. A hostile milieu for people of color is nothing new at CJTS; in the past a resident was assaulted by a white employee ( read post Weather Gone Wild or "All Eyes On Me" ) with a mild rebuke as discipline. Those administrators paid to run CJTS either are oblivious to a hostile milieu toward employees of color or protecting one of their own. All over CJTS people of color groan under the weight of white oppression and neglect: who is listening? If anything, it seems as if, complaints of a white person creating a visible hostile environment would be met with concern. This is not the case on the DCF Plantation where business as usual has always meant whites protecting their own.