Daily Surrender Requests

Jen:

Thank you for reading my

ramblings

. First let me address the math part of your response to shut me down.

No, I didn't have to use a calculator, because it's basic math. Also, I see that you fully understood, later why I was not going for the 9 hours round up instead of 8.57. Because that number after the decimal tells me it was closer to an half hour rather than an whole hour. LOL But you were not going to give me that , now were you? Nope, you just went and got that calculator and got a reality check.

The number 57 played a little visual trick on ya. .57 does not mean half of a dollar but a little more than a half of an hour in this equation huh? Which mean .57 is a litle more than 30 minutes which is less than 60 minutes. But using minutes we do not round up to the next hour. That's okay, you got it after you checked and compared the facts.

Because if we used your new math, we would have paid the good officer an excess of probably somewhere in the range of a 24 more extra hours of overtime pay...pretty cushy huh?

The gentlemen is getting paid for his time, not beyond his duty..he is not volunteering. When the man jump on to the platform and saw the train acoming, but he did it anyway, that's beyond his duty. Can you visualize the difference ? Can you see clearly through the glasses at the issue before you rather than my writing that has language that offense your way of thinking?

Do you know how to calculate overtime, vacation pay, I am telling you the brotha is getting paid for his time. Plain and simple.

My point is let's share the wealth and second let's not focus on one part of town to target your enforcement. Don't be selective in where you are going to perform your job. In other words, the officer working so many hours covering the whole city would help get drunks off the road. Or more officers being able to work the whole city will be able to get more drunks off the road. And if you are not doing that you are targeting a select part of town, where over 90% of African-Americans live work and play.

So, if you want to take your hat and tip it to the officer so be it. Do it. But me questioning, the accountability and the efficiency of a program that allow the one officer running the program to be the only officer benefiting from the grant money, is legit. Which explained my title to the post. If it is not a conflict of interest, please give me some reasons why I should not think that way. But calling me a racist, does not silence the conversation.


Second, I never called the officer a racist. Never. And yes, I do use the term raced whites and I use the term racialist. One speaks of the lack of identity and the other behavior. Plain and simple, and my use of the term and understanding of the terms in noway shape or form makes me a racist or racialist. But, you didn't know, so I forgive you.

I am posting your comments, because, it is obvious we are not talking about the same thing, and if not folks will lose their way in trying to communicate with one. Let's seek clarity. Peace

You scream for equality, which you have and then some, and yet you are the first to throw a fit and in doing so keep racism alive.

Nope not screaming or asking for equality. Nope not keeping racism alive. But I am writing my point of view.

Ok, I'll bite just this once, though I question what good it will do.





Racism Vs. Racialism

Racism is the act of one or a collection of many whom feel they are superior to others and openly discriminate against what they consider to be the inferior race or group of people.

Racialism is the belief that a race or group of people are inferior based on their appearance and/or genetics. So to say that someone is a racialist would require knowing them and speaking with them to gain an understanding of their beliefs, however to say someone is a racist one need only to view their actions and/or written statements in your case.

I've also noticed in your ramblings, I mean writings that you often use the term "raced whites" quite often. This simply means the white race and does not refer to racism nor racialism, it also says to me that you are in fact a racist and against anybody with pale skin. You scream for equality, which you have and then some, and yet you are the first to throw a fit and in doing so keep racism alive. Let me give you an example; If I go out to eat and a waitress who happens to be white is in a bad mood and gives me horrible service she's just a b*tch, but if you eat at the same restaurant and she is rude to you, you scream she's a racist. Do you see the problem here? You are being exactly what you are claiming to fight against. A good friend of mine, who just happens to have dark skin by the way, once said to me "It's ok to be irate and it's ok to be ignorant, but it's not ok to be irate and ignorant". Once again I invite you to let go of your hatred and/or educate yourself and join the Human Race.

As for my math....LOL. You said 8.57, good for you, you can use a calculator. I said and I quote "Working ALMOST 9 hours a day". Forgive me for using basic 3rd grade math and rounding up to the nearest hour. I suppose I could have rounded down to the nearest half hour and said 8 and a half hours a day seven days a week. Or perhaps I should have rounded up to the nearest quarter hour, as employers do, which would have made that 8 hours and 45 minutes. I just figured in the fact that unless this officer lives at the station, thereby eliminating his drive to and from work, and assuming that he doesn't end his shift precisely at a given hour that he probably gets a bit more time in. Generally a shift at any job is 8 hours a day 5 days a week. That tells me that this gentleman is going above and beyond his call of duty, and once again I tip my hat to him.

Regardless, assuming he gets exactly 60 hours a week, working 8 hours, 34 minutes, and 2 seconds, seven days a week still does not sound cushy to me