Anyone who's read some of my posts on this blog will have read about me whining about a situation where I was denied unemployment in 2013 by a local health provider company. This was the situation where the area I was working in had no Latinos in it and I got a pretty rough ride there.
I was brought in with three other people in a work-to-hire situation and told that if we kept our noses clean, that we would be hired. I might add that the other three people were white and some people at that location wanted to keep their workplace that color and made that known. We all did our work and all four of us should have been hired.
After six months, the three white people were hired and I was let go right before Christmas. I also got the more than slight feeling that racialism played a major role in the decision.
I've been so angry about this injustice since and, while not officially diagnosed, have been feeling extremely depressed since.
A while ago, just on a fussy whim, I went over to whitehouse.gov and wrote a long message to President Obama, outlining the situation and saying what had happened to me. It must have been about four months ago, I didn't figure anyone had even read the message.
Then just today, in fact, a few minutes ago, I got a call from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission! They had been referred my message and wanted to talk about it! And so I did...
Oh, and thank you Mr. President. I know you probably never saw my message personally, but because of the action of some nameless but hard working functionaries, you get the credit. :-D
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