DB> Lets take this to Netmail... I've a feeling you're local to the L.A. 
 DB> area as there's a real quick turnaround time with our mail. I think 
 DB> you're getting freaked out for the wrong reasons. Black people are 
 DB> not the only folks getting stomped on. Its the nature of the modern 
 DB> day corporate environment. I just got back from San Francisco and 
 DB> while in a cabdriver bar with some friends, met the owner. He's an 
 DB> attorney (big time) and walks the slats on weekends for something to 
 DB> do. He used to be a cop, worked the same station where I had a lot of 
 DB> cop friends. When I asked him why he quit being an officer he 
 DB> answered: "I made sergeant and just before my promotion I was called 
 DB> into the Captain's office and was told my promotion was being rescinded 
 DB> because of Affirmative Action... the promotion numbers didn't come out 
 DB> right and I had to step down for someone who didn't qualify with the 
 DB> scores I'd worked for and achieved... So I said screw it and decided 
 DB> to do something else with my life." 
   This happens more often than folks would like to admit - particularly in 
police departments in larger cities.  I know of at least one case within a 
certai communications company where a middle manager was moved to another 
city 
for 90 days, and then moved back home.  It seems there was a level of 
management that had to Go Away, and he was the one that they wanted to keep - 
but they could only do it if he wasn't there when the ax fell - so they moved 
him.
 DB> Life is what you make it D.E. Sometimes you get what you deserve and 
 DB> sometimes you don't.  
 DB> Keep in mind... the above sentence has a double meaning.
   Ah yes - MANY folks still walk the streets that don't deserve to continue 
to breathe the same air as the rest of the folks - and many are still down 
who 
deserve to be up.
   It is the nature of life among those who reason.
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