DENIAL OF RACIAL ANIMUS LEADS TO MORE PROBLEMS

There are persistent rumors circulating around Connecticut Juvenile Training School about serious racial issues. At this juncture management has denied that racial discord exist; while complaints of possible right wing racial missives ( posted for employees of color to see), social media intimidation and plain verbal harassment are growing without check. CJTS continues painting some fictitious idyllic picture of their facility as working together in harmony : wonder if that is why there is such denial of right wing activity toward employees of color? For years segments of discord popped up at CJTS, only to be buried by management using threats of termination or other overseer type employees to quell any uprising among the natives.

At this juncture though, the racism is literally seeping out of fissures -of denial- created by white management, determined to maintain a facade of Eden like bliss at CJTS. No publicity firm from Madsion Avenue is capable of hiding what is becoming a real problem- racial animus directed at employees of color. While CJTS trumpets the opening of a new Middletown facility for girls in January 2014, issues of bias / racial animus stink like old fish heads in a June sun. Like those segregationists in the Civil Rights era South, CJTS management fight to maintain what they believe is a way of life ( staying in power plus hegemony over employees). Ah yes, the spirit of Mr. Charley hovers over CJTS like some wraith; attempts to whitewash (no pun intended ) what is going on defies all semblance of logic or reason. In the movie Ghost Busters a river of putrid evil slime flowed underneath a picturesque city. Then one day the evil flowed up from below with negative implications for inhabitants. Now we listen to CJTS officials offer stentorian claims of racial harmony on campus while investigation of right wing activity toward employees of color are quietly muted. That image of subterranean evil in Ghost Busters is relevant to the racial animus flowing underneath fake harmony at CJTS. We await the eruption.

" What hides beneath the dirt one day will come to the light."

   Evidently CJTS management does not believe in the above mentioned quote: like those tobacco chewing segregationist in the old South- they continue themes of  denial and thus head toward a precipice of disaster.