SCOUNDRELS,SCALAWAGS AND SUCKERS

In times of desperation [ among people] suddenly there appear scoundrels,scalawags, and suckers. These are desperate times to be sure at the Department of Children and Families plus Connecticut Juvenile Training School in Middletown. A community coalition recently sent DCF a Freedom of Information request; seeking to find patterns of bias against employees of color. While CJTS went all out celebrating Black History Month with residents of color, non-white employees are going to Human Resources lodging complaints against a white Youth Services Officer. Scroundels in the form of DCF/CJTS management are using talk of over hauling their policies as a smoke screen to punish employees who  voice any opposition to injustices. Certain activists-such as the DCF Plantation 5- who launched a class action lawsuit three years ago are being targeted by management, with intense scrutiny and threats of job loss. Then there are Scalawags [employees]  on the DCF Plantation going to management with data of interest on how the employees are acting or talking. In this segment of my story it is necessary to point out a historical truth-no oppressor can carry out a plan of conquest without without inside help [ scalawags]. While at CJTS we find the following: (1) i'm just here to do my job and see nothing going on, (2) just leave me alone and give me overtime, (3) management will give me a title in exchange for betrayal of fellow employees. Finally there loom the suckers (non thinkers and self absorbed) who have no clue as to what is going on around them. When management promotes a theory of obfuscation those suckers embrace it. When all is said and done scroundels,scalawags and suckers reign supreme.