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[V] This may be a sore subject with some of you, but 'let the truth be told and hypocrits be damned'! A little back ground first. My father emigrated to the US from Jamaica after WWII. The time being what they were (late 40's), my dad couldn't get to realize his dream of being a building arcitech, so he settled for work in the railroad. He worked for the New York Central Railroad in New York City. The only work he could (allowed) get was working in the mail and bag-gage department. He either worked in Grand Central Station, the West Side yards or in their facility in New Jersey. He eventually left that job and worked for the New York Transit (subways) until he retired after 25 years of service. Al-though, he went from conductor to train dispatcher in that time, he had to endure alot of bias (directly and indirectly [mostly racial]). The same thing happened to my mother when she worked for the hospital system in New York City. Her's was both racial and age, as she got older.[V] [V]Now, on to my dilemma. Recently, I've come across the same bias in an inci- dent involving me, my foreman and the manager of our shop, where I work. Al-though I presently can't go into the details behind it, it was noticed by many of my co-workers (white & black). Some of them said to me that this looks like it's racially motivated. Although I've tried not to think in terms of that, the more this issue drags on, the more I'm starting to see it for what it is. Even my union rep-resentative (who is black), is beginning to see it too and is doing his best to fight it, although he says the cards are stacked against me. It seems, after 10 years of service, that some people out there, still think in terms of color as op-pose to intellegence. These comments will probably be traced back to me, but like I said before, "LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN AND THE HYPOCRITS BE DAMNED!!" gfj-A Real Railroader-A REAL AMERICAN!!
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