[StBernard] Expanding higher ed access for low income students

[Westley Annis]

Wendy,

As a friend of mine says, "If it was easy, they'd get anyone to do it.
Instead they call us."

I'm building a combo shed/playhouse in my backyard.  I'm doing it myself
with assistance as needed.  Yep, it's a lot of hard work, been working on it
over a year now, but when it is done, I'll be able to say "I built it."

This do-it-yourself attitude spills over into a lot of things I do.
Luckily, I have learned to recognize some things that are "easy" and to let
others do it for me.

There is no doubt that there is discrimination out there, but that is a
morality issue and you simply cannot legislate morality.

I've got a couple of people that I have help me out occasionally on various
jobs when I need to have an extra hand.  With the knowledge they have, they
would be minimum wage hires, but I always pay them more than that.  

Again, nothing forces a woman to take a job for 35% less pay.  If every
woman refused to take the pay offered, it would climb.

If you are truly talented, skilled, what have you, there is always a better
position out there, you just have to find it.  I've taken lower paying jobs
just to tide me over until I could find the one that matched what I was
looking for.

Westley

-----Original Message-----
John,
 
 
   You're funny...and I hate the do-it-yourself network, why, it's never
that easy!!!! lol...you're right in that Mr. Gardner may have succeeded, but
would he have been as successful, done it so quickly(6 months). Granted the
biggest reason for the attention to his success was that he was a blackman
breaking into and succeeding where one hadn't before. Dumb luck, or the
Grace of God, opened that opportunity up to him that was no where in his
previous work history or would have put him onto that road. Working hard is
always a sure thing, in that as long as you work hard you open up that
opportunity. BUT, as hard as any woman works right now, she is still only
making $.65 to your dollar, making us far from equal in work, frustrating
us, and knocking us down when we do work hard- black women, the stat gets
lower, much like buying cars. There are other discrimination as well, I was
denied a job at the Crinimal Sheriff's office, because I was a woman, even
though I scored in the 90 percentile, and 75% of the men hired fell below
80. I worked hard, studied for tests, did well....yet wasn't rewarded. Well,
later I was when the Justice Department charged them with discrimination,
BUT at the time I wasn't. Was that my fault for not trying? Had I not been
as stubborn, I may have quit trying and some people can only have that door
shut so many times before they feel like giving up. Hell, how many times
since Katrina have we all felt like giving up. Some don't have the stamania
for life long fights because they are always playing catch up and some are
never taught how to catch up. They are just told to keep working and you'll
get there. at $.35 short, you can't say that's fair.
 
Wendy



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