For the past couple of days I had been hearing a clinking sound coming from the back of my car when I drove.. Because I have a 1994 Honda Civic which is a salvage car I figured it couldn’t have been anything important until my tire started to wobble..
That’s when I noticed that my lugnut with the wheelstud still inside of it had broken off both back tires…
I drove over to Shell gas station to get an estimate on it.. Because I had been to this location for auto repair work several times before I trusted that I would get a good and fair price…
Well… A new guy was running the show.. An older white guy who after looking at my car told me that his hourly fee was $80 and that to finish replacing the lugnuts and wheelstuds on both tires he would need about an hour and a half.. The final price he quoted me was $210.00.
I couldn’t believe it… But something told me not to trust him.. I just had a feeling..
I stepped away and started calling other auto repair shops and one guy I spoke to informed me that price was steep and the guy was probably taking advantage of the fact it was late in the day and I really needed to get my car quickly fixed..
I informed the mechanic I would have to leave because I wanted to check the prices of other shops and the look on his face told me all I needed to know..
Driving home I stopped by a mexican shop and the guy quoted me a price of $40.00 for both tires providing I bought the parts which i did for $30.00.
Total of $70.00.
I watched while the guy lifted my car and removed the tire, knocked out the studs, and replaced each one and replaced the tire…
He fixed both tires in less than 25 minutes. I tipped him $20.00.
I told him that the white guy had quoted me $210.00 for the same job and had told me it would take an hour and a half… He looked at me in disbelief and reached out and hugged me…
I called my mother who lives in another state and she told me of her experiences dealing with white guys and cars.. She stated they are always trying to make a fool of people.
I told her I would call back to the shop that quoted me the $210.00 price and let them know my car was fixed for less than half their price.. Which I did.
I thought of an african friend of mine who buys cars from the auto auction and resales them.. He had recently sold a 2004 Infiniti for $3500.00.
I had seen the car which was extremely nice.. He informed me to never go to the white guys because they would have taken the same car and would have wanted a $2,000.00 dollar down payment and two years of monthly payments.. He informed me they would have most likely charged around $12,000.00 for the car.
He then said something that was very interesting and which I will never forget.. He said white people always try to get make a killing off of whatever they do.. Instead of being happy with just seeing a return on their investment.. He wondered aloud why making their money back plus $2,000.00 wasn’t good enough.
I remembered another incident where my power steering hose had started leaking and the hose cost about $80.00 from Autozone but I needed to find someone to put it on..
I called up Pep Boys here in Dallas, TX and was quoted a price of $400.00 to have that job completed.. He stated they had a four hour minimum and charged $99.00 per hour..
A friend of mine informed me of yet another Mexican shop.. They were fortunately opened on a Sunday. I pulled up and asked the mechanic to give me an estimate on the same job.
He stated $45.00 and it would take about 40 minutes..
A $45.00 job as opposed to a $400.00 dollar job!!!!
Mexicans are cheaper, do a great job, and work faster…
And unlike the white guys the Hispanics are trying to make a living.. Not trying to get rich…
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I am an American.. Yet my country, America, feels foreign to me.. I am losing my respect for what it means to be American…..
I work in a call center… Although I am happy to have a job I am sick of the job.. And more than that sick of the job market..
There are so few jobs…. And employers know it… I am sick of having no job security even though the company is making record profit… No insurance… Cut pay… And daily “reminders” of how “replaceable” I am.. WE are….
This whole work world is a fucking farce… The republicans say we should do away with minimum wage.. That we should remove the employees ability to negotiate any terms…
I think that is bullshit.. How can you “negotiate” with a multimillion dollar company that can import cheap labor… Cheap, low wage computer programmers and engineers from India and elsewhere???
At my job we were force to take a pay cut… Told we were mistakenly being paid too much.. Although the company is at record profit.. And those that did not do this were fired….
When you don’t have the ability to negotiate you are basically made to be a servant.. To take what is given you…
My mom worked many years in a government job. She was able to raise three kids on that job and even though she worked there for 30 years and was only making $9 an hour when she left the perks of the job where unbelievable..
Full benefits.. Comp time.. Vacation time.. And more than anything she had job security.. I am college educated and would take a $9.00 an hour government job anyday over my job which pays twice that…
I have no job security and the turnover rate at my company leaves me awake at night.. A tap on the shoulder is all one needs to be walked out.. No warnings.. No anything.. For any offense.. Whether intentional or not..
Corporate America is not a fair place for minorities such as myself and never has been… That is why so many highly educated minorities are overrepresented in Low wage government jobs… My stomach constantly hurts from the stress and fear of losing my job.. I’m pretty sure I have ulcers.. My hair is falling out and I have not had a good nights sleep in a long time…
The overtime i am forced to work for so many hours has caused my ankles to swell… Yet I continue because I have too… The days of a 40 hour work week with full benefits and job security are over… This is my America…
And ain’t shit I can do about it….
A friend of mine here in Texas was recently let go from a temp to hire bank job she worked for months.. The reason per the bank manager was the owner of the temp agency she went through refused to lower what she was asking and the bank chose a lower paid employee from another agency..
My friend was only making $10.00 per hour… The agency owner also refused to tell her she did not have to report the last day and she was there when her replacement showed up.. How classy..
Then the agency owner refused to place her elsewhere even though she had a flawless record and told the unemployment office she quit.. Even though she didn’t..
And this friend mentioned to me that she sees why people choose to stay on welfare… This job market and the people who are in positions of control can make a person give up…
Completely….
At this point I’ve been thinking more and more about getting disability… Looking forward to it actually.. For $1,000.00 bucks a month I will gladly walk away from my job…
It’s either I struggle financially or kill myself from job stress and I choose the first option…
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So today when I got off work from working 7 days straight I was so tired… But I had put off buying a couple of very important items I needed and I decided to stop at Walmart on the way home…. So I stopped at the Walmart on Forest Lane in Dallas, TX and parked as quickly as I could because it was like 150 degrees and my air condition didn’t work….
I ran into Walmart for all of about 20 minutes and frankly did not pay attention to the fact the spot was supposedly a handicapped spot…..
So when I came back to my car I had a ticket….
I said no sweat I would pay it….
Until I found out that the ticket was over $500 dollars and that Dallas had not only recently criminalized parking violations they had doubled the fine…..
Needless to say I was shocked that a parking violation could immediately be worth over $500 dollars…. And i knew immediately that there was no way I would pay that……
At all…..
That’s an outrageous fine and one that I believe doesn’t suit the violation…..
I am aware that cities and towns are in budget crunches which has prompted many of them to criminalize violations that are normally civil matters… This is how they get around the federal ban on “debtors prisons”…. See, when the criminalize it- regardless of how minor it is – they immediately reward themselves with the ability to threaten jail time over it…
And to impose extraordinarily high fines on the general public…..
I have never gone to jail…… But this type of behavior by the city/municipality/ county authorities makes me view jail differently… I am not afraid any longer to sit these tickets out…
This is a recession and while I was willing to pay maybe $200 for that ticket half a grand they will never see from me….
So I guess that they will lose in the end anyway because in jail they will have to feed me and I will damn hard to make sure I get my dental done or at least some of it completed…. I’ll just let them know I have a bad toothache while I’m in there…. That will show them….
Instead of getting money they will actually be losing it…. Lolol…
Greedy bastards………
Way to go Dallas!!!! I’m going to take from you every penny I can get!! And thats including the meals and healthcare and dentists…….
In all seriously though, these types of fines only make people lose their reservation of jail…. Only a fool would pay that type of fine……. For a 20 minute parking violation…….
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The worst city for the upward mobility of blacks in America is Memphis, TN.
The city seems to take a sick and twisted fascination in being unusally cruel to its most numerous and desperate citizens who are overwelmingly African Americans.
Memphis, TN is still living in the Civil War Era where their is constant friction between its white and black citizenry. There is also a lack of employment and especially white collar employment for many of the highly educated African Americans forcing a large number of the college educated black residents to have no choice but to move to Atlanta, GA and Dallas, TX for better opportunites.
Crime is rampant and Foreclosures/Bankruptcies top the US state Charts. The Mayor is Mr. Wharton, a grinning, cheesy, old, white ass kissing African American man who has never done anything in his life but suck the governments teat and he is continuing to do so.
Companies in Memphis such as Technicolor, Kelly Employment Services, and Direct insurance are among many in Memphis, TN who have been repeatedly sued for abusing their African American employees and for discriminatory hiring practices.
Indeed the City of Memphis turns a blind eye to abuse and discrimination of any kind so long as the blacks in power are getting a cut of the revenue.
It’s simply how the game is played in Memphis, Tennessee which is real nasty.
The former Mayor of Memphis, Mayor Willie Herenton, who was mayor for 16 long miserable years has decided to run for Senate and chances are he will will. The man is one money hungry bastard and about as crooked as they come but the foolish, undereducated residents that make up Memphis, TN will no doubt put him in power.
The City Chief of Police is a high yella slick bastard who is also “in the club” one might say and knows his position is secure for life even though the crime in Memphis is off the charts.
Memphis TN is a prime example of why a US City should never EVER be ran by a black because under the Mayorship of Willie Herenton the City of Memphis saw major businesses LEAVE, with only hard labor Factories remaining, and it also saw a tremendous spike in crime. Memphis TN also has one of the highest AIDS/HIV number of residents in the US and the City is so sick it even smells Sick.
Companies like Memphis Daily News who operate out of Memphis TN rummage through court records and find the most humiliating of court cases relating to personal tragedies, foreclosures and divorces and post them all ONLINE to try and humiliate these individuals even more than they already have been humiliated and intimidated.
If you are African American, Please think twice about moving to Memphis, TN. It is a shithole with the rudest, most hatefilled, backasswards motherfuckers you will ever come across in your life.
All the City has going for itself is Beale Street and Elvis Presley, one long dead and the other which should be. Beale Street is mostly filled with whites, beggards and honkey tonk bars and if you are black the Police will mistake you for a common criminal and run you off or beat you. And folks I am talking about the BLACK COPS.
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Why is Africa So Fucked Up?
Now seriously. What the fuck is going on with Africa?
As a black person the Continent of Africa, especially the subsaharan part ran by blacks, is just too damn backwards for this to be 2010. And what the fuck is up with the Junjaweed and Tutsis? Can somebody tell those assholes that their names just sound stupid.
Now I lived in Atlanta GA for around 8 years and now I reside in Texas. I have met so many highfalutin Africans who are quick to say “well, the leadership is bad” but dammit already – why sit around for centuries while a handful of corrupt robber barons break the whole damn country and have everybody dirt poor while they go shopping in Paris.
I blame the African people for that.
Now I know that the problems on the continent of Africa are not so simplistic to get to the root cause and I also know that the white man’s colonization did more harm than good by basically raping the continent for all of its natural resources – but Africans have to take responsibility for something.
It makes no sense that in so many parts of Africa people are still living like this is 1000 B.C. What kind of sense does that make.
When I see people from America go to Africa and dig wells so the people can have water I am so dumbfounded. Why couldn’t Africans drill a hole in the ground to get water? Why are they still allowing babies to be raped over there and why arent the Africans, especially the males, standing up for their women?
When those black bastards come to the states the first thing they do is enroll in college and find a white woman, yet they leave their own flesh and blood to struggle.
I just cant get some blacks. Some blacks are so assbackwards. So many blacks have really bought into the white man’s propoganda that blacks are less of a race which makes them run to dilute their blackness.
How sad.
I wish that blacks would get more involved in Africa but then again I know that really wont happen because we are so damn cash strapped and oppressed here in America for us to be fighting for those losers overseas to have freedom and electricity and clean running water.
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Where Is My American Dream?
Funny.
I never thought I would find myself 32 years old and unemployed struggling to keep a roof over my head yet here I am.
Where did I go wrong in life?
My grandmother (rip) always use to tell me as long as I kept my head up, my nose clean and my legs closed I would go very far. Now, I really didn’t take her literally but I understood what she meant.
She was a Mississippi woman. A mississippi black woman. The farthest she ever went in school was to the 8th Grade and in those days that qualified her to be a teacher in her small rural town. She married early and had children. The greater world was something she didnt know about. And probably didnt care about.
I was ambitious. I always wanted to see the world. I could never make sense of the poverty around me. I knew at a very young age I wanted to go away to college. I use to lock myself in my bedroom and simply look out the window for hours and daydream. Sometimes when I would look up in the sky I would see huge airplanes flying over my small rural home located in the Mississippi Delta and I would get excited. Who was on those planes and where were they going?
I would envision some child my age on the other side of the world doing the very same thing as I. Maybe a kid in Africa dreaming of America or a kid in rural China. My only link to the world was television since my folks were poor and we could never travel.
Even at a young age poverty bothered me. Spiritually and emotionally and mentally. It bothered me moreso when I would look at the excesses of the rich and think of the waterhose my mother had to run from our house to my grandparents house just so we could have water when our water was turned off. I remember the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous with Robin Leech was a popular show at the time and I would get so depressed watching it my mother would actually turn off the television.
Didn’t these people know there were so many people struggling. Did they even care? That was then. This is now. Now at 32 years old I have more of an understanding of the “Free Market” system and I also have a deep appreciation for it.
However, I also see that the system is broken. It has allowed large multinational companies and a few wily individuals to “profiteer” off the backs of those most desperate. It has allowed those with the knowledge and finances to simply take advantage of those who dont have these resources so readily available.
Funny. And sad. That the richest man in the World by many estimates is a rather large man named “Slim” over in Mexico. A country so poor its citizens are risking life, limb and freedom to escape. Yet he is sitting on top of the world.
To those Free Market champions who say that rich people create businesses that employ people and that they should have no regulation – Just look across the border at “Slim”. Look at how he’s made himself unbelievably rich by charging outrageous interest and pushing the desperate into awful loans.
Yet here I am. 32 years old. Single and no kids. And barely a roof over my heads. Never before have I been so disheartened at the “optimism” of America. Never have I felt so rejected.
I was one of those black people who went to college. Who played it straight. Who didn’t ride the welfare system or have kids out of wedlock. Yet I’m struggling. Where the fuck is my American dream?
Yes. I know we are in a recession and many people are struggling. But when I look at blacks overall, we have fallen off. Big time. Something is going on here and its super ugly.
Racism. Discrimination. Stereotyping of others. I see this everytime I walk into an interview and see white faces peering at me. I wonder what must be running through their minds. Yet I never get a call back. Nothing. There seems to be almost a disdain by many whites that I have a home and a college degree.
Ironically, many of the whites Im sitting in front of to interview never even went to college. How do I know this? Many of them state it to me. Yet they are employed and I am not.
Blacks/African Americans – whatever America wants to call us need to wake up and get our act together and start helping each other just like every other race helps each other.
Im tired of looking around me in the black neighborhood seeing damn near every other black struggling just to make it. Im tired of seeing all the stores in our neighborhoods ran by immigrants or other races.
We need to take ownership. Ownership.
Im tired of relying on the white man to provide me with the American Dream.
For the first time in my life I’ve decided to simply create it myself because from the looks of things the white man aint about to provide it for me.
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