While in Hartford recently a lawyer stopped me and inquired about my ongoing battle for racial justice as it relates to Department of Children and Families / Connecticut Juvenile Training School. I responded by saying that an arbitrator ruled against DCF's termination of me and to restore job, benefits etc. The lawyer said to me " Cornell DCF et al. do not give a damn about going to court and fighting these lawsuits or arbitration. It is public money they use therefore it does not matter to them.Those people in charge of state run agencies are only interested in winning, in the final analysis this kind of thing [ claims of racial injustice by employees of color ] continues to occur. What is really sad is that these white people running DCF / CJTS do not learn anything nor is change made."
Those words from a legal mind struck home as I reflected on all the effort that went into pointing out CJTS blatant discrimination against employees of color. All DCF publicity person did was deny all charges and claim I had no valid basis for making such allegations. Even when Freedom of Information documents from DCF proved beyond doubt that white management disciplined employees of color more severely and with greater frequency-- talking heads within the DCF Plantation stayed on message i.e. "there is nothing wrong."
Well clearly something is " rotten in Denmark" and just because the white overseers at DCF do not acknowledge wrondoing does not mean it is not valid.
Is that lawyer telling the truth will they [ DCF ] ever learn anything?
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