Jun 18 2008
Misguided and Undecided!
What is going on with people’s mindstates lately? In the past 2 days I have come across some of the RUDEST, MISINFORMED people. I work in a government agency where our customers are other government employees, but because the people upstairs see me as an administration peon, they tend to forget who is really in the driver’s seat. I AM! So take your superior attitude and SHOVE IT!
There was a young lady that came down to the lowly bowels of the basement yesterday supposedly to check on her print job and send a message from HER superior. She looks like she had recently stroked out & her weave was a mangled mess pulled back into a ponytail that brought to mind matted squirrel tails. And the ever-flirtatious supervisor here in my office was working his “magic” on her. I use the term VERY lightly because for those that are misguided and undecided I am sure his spiel works. But for any woman with even the least bit of sense and/or self-confidence, the game he spits is old & tired! So this young woman comes downstairs and immediately begins talking to the supervisor only as if I and my other young black female co-worker are not even here. She looked directly into my office and continued to only address him. As their pointless conversation drew on, my co-worker and began to notice that the questions the supervisor was asking were VERY pointed. He began to discuss how a Republican administration affects the federal government workers differently than a Democratic one. And she didn’t understand. She is a black woman that works in the office for one of Pres. Bush’s faith-based initiatives and once Bush is gone, so is she. He said you will see when Obama takes office. She gasped and said: “OBAMA!?!?” He coolly responds: “Yeeeeeah!” He knew he had her then. He then begins to make stereotypical remarks talking about broadcasting urban radio over the loudspeaker in all the federal government facilities and other things that she had certainly discussed with her other ill-informed friends. He asks her if she is a Republican, she says: “Not really.” Which to me means: “Yes but because I am black I can’t admit it outright, but when I am with my majority white friends, I wear it loud & proud.” She confesses to be an independent. He then proceeds to tell her that he voted for Hillary (a bald faced LIE). She then explains that he is not the first black man that told her he didn’t vote for Obama. Now call me crazy but based on my initial impression of her, I don’t think she knows very man black men, despite her APPEARING to be a black woman. She then follows up with: “There is something not right with him… people aren’t checking into his background.” Did she not know that he has written TWO books detailing his life and background? All the while I am sitting here both laughing and getting upset because he is slowly allowing her to show her whole hand. He then says: “Isn’t he a Muslim?” WHY WOULD HE SAY THAT!?!? She then says: “He says that he isn’t, but his father…”
At this point my coworker, had had ENOUGH! She stood up in her doorway and says: “Can you all get from in front of my door with that?” The young lady responds: “UH OH, OBAMA FANATICS!” She then had to be escorted from the office by the supervisor as she had ignited a fire that she could not put out. I had been quietly listening to the conversation wondering WHO this young lady was friends with and what they discussed in their conversations. How dare she make assumptions about US after she had come down here spouting her half-assed knowledge. Needless to say, when her work was ready to pick up yesterday, she went to my supervisor to retrieve it and did not dare step foot beyond his office door.
