Hurt? You want to know if I'm hurt? It's as if a punk band from central Pennsylvania was doing a version of Marvin Hamlisch's lovely song, 'Memories.' I'm dying, here.
Most of the time I spent at a nameless state university is 'too painful to remember,' such as the hours of boredom, but the soggy, colorless water paints that still run together in memory are still warm, even if Marvin went cold on us. It was the most racist hellhole I've ever spent a few years dealing with on a daily basis. At the end of the worst unpleasantness, I filed an affirmative action complaint, in house, and it was mishandled. Our affirmative action officer was negligent, and all the faculty who know full well that I had faced an extreme hostile and discriminatory environment clammed up, fearful of retaliation, in spite them having both tenure and a union to protect their supposed free speech.
One of the mini-agendas, and this one is small, like a mouse's midget cousin, is to invalidate the statutes of limitation that protect colleges and other institution from action against their institutionalized bigotry. Though there may have been a time frame in which I could have taken further action, the situation was exceptional for sheer ability to prevail against the victim. Penniless undergrads cant' pay lawyers to fight their cases, so it is reasonable that statutes of limitation be lifted, so to allow people to recover damages long after the fact. A college can be a real slimy bastard. This one was. Hint, it's in the Western corner of Pennsylvania, where racism has been alive a well forever.
Most of the time I spent at a nameless state university is 'too painful to remember,' such as the hours of boredom, but the soggy, colorless water paints that still run together in memory are still warm, even if Marvin went cold on us. It was the most racist hellhole I've ever spent a few years dealing with on a daily basis. At the end of the worst unpleasantness, I filed an affirmative action complaint, in house, and it was mishandled. Our affirmative action officer was negligent, and all the faculty who know full well that I had faced an extreme hostile and discriminatory environment clammed up, fearful of retaliation, in spite them having both tenure and a union to protect their supposed free speech.
One of the mini-agendas, and this one is small, like a mouse's midget cousin, is to invalidate the statutes of limitation that protect colleges and other institution from action against their institutionalized bigotry. Though there may have been a time frame in which I could have taken further action, the situation was exceptional for sheer ability to prevail against the victim. Penniless undergrads cant' pay lawyers to fight their cases, so it is reasonable that statutes of limitation be lifted, so to allow people to recover damages long after the fact. A college can be a real slimy bastard. This one was. Hint, it's in the Western corner of Pennsylvania, where racism has been alive a well forever.
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