Q: What's OOO?

A: I once received a communication in which the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) officer's title was misspelled.

Opportunity was spelled oportunity.

I started calling him the Oportunity Opportunity Officer (OOO).

Idea being that it was discriminatory to deny someone a job in which being able to spell was a job requirement because she couldn't spell.

Q: Lower the standard.

A: No, have a double standard.

Have one standard for white applicants, and another, lower standard for black applicants.

Somebody has to be able to spell.

But you don't have to be able to do the job to get the job, hold the job, and be promoted, along with everybody else, and manage people who can do the job better than you could. You have the race card to play.

Q: Can you give me a concrete example?

A: When I was sacked at the Department of Commerce, I went to the EEO officer, to protest.

There was nothing he could do for me.

Q: Why not?

A: Because his job was to play the race card, on behalf of black employees. To game the system.

That's what Clarence Thomas did for Anita Hill, when she worked for him. Show her how to get over on Whitey.

She didn't mind learning that.

Only when he demanded a quid pro quo for being her mentor did she demur.

Q: I don't like that example. Give me another one.

A: Brenda used to work in the Florida Department of Corrections.

The DOC had a black Secretary. His memos were written in ebonics. They were ungrammatical, and had spelling errors in them. They were like something out of Amos 'n' Andy.

Kingfish, talking big.

Why didn't anyone take him aside and tell him he needed some help. He was embarrassing the state, his department, and the black race. It was un fucking professional.

Q: Why didn't someone?

A: Out of prejudice.

Some peckerwood--Jeb Bush?--thought it would damage the cause of racial equality to have him upgrade his shop. They wanted him to look ignorant.

You help people by teaching them to spell. Not by letting them strut around not having to spell.

Q: Oh, Lord. He's calling Jeb Bush a racist.

A: I'm calling everyone in state government above the Secretary of the Department of Corrections a racist.