Man! Dude! Session #126

(D)ude: Man! Henrique did not get that job at the non-profit organization. Despite being Hispanic American and clearing the three rounds of interviews necessary for the job, his not knowing conversational Spanish really cost him the position.

(M)an: Dude! Aalim managed to not get hired in the nonprofit sector. Although he entered the sociology program at one of the online universities with satellite offices in the DFW Metroplex, his not knowing Spanish cost him a lot of career opportunities.   

D: Man! Henrique confided that because of his not having learned Spanish, a lot of non-profits looked at him as a cost than a benefit.

M: Dude! Aalim’s supervisor asked him pointblank if he wanted a job lower in rank than his internship.

D: Man! Henrique actually got offered a position as a phone operator and greeting specialist at one of the hospitals downtown. And, get this, the position usually only requires a high school diploma and some college.

M: Dude! What’s the matter with the status quo? What’s keeping US from integrating well beyond the scope of public school classrooms?

D: Man! Remember how everybody managed to segregate along the lines of socioeconomic status primarily, yet the washed up blonde/auburn guys and gals in the lower rungs always got amnesty if they were attractive and smart?

M: Dude! It was very uncomfortable trying to find a place at a table during lunchtime! And I read in the headlines today about a twelve-year-old boy who was taken off life support yesterday. Apparently, he was bullied at school and got into a confrontation that left him with a concussion and such brutal seizures that the doctors put him in a coma.

D: Man! Remember how our teachers always told us to fight back and learn to stand up for ourselves? It would be really interesting if a twenty-first century kid were to record a teacher addressing the issue of needing to fight back on a cell phone or any recording gadget hidden inside a pocket or wallet.

M: Dude! There was a girl who did a sting operation with her cell phone techs and found out a thirty-year veteran teacher was the culprit confiscating cash from students’ backpacks.

D: Man! Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Roberts appear to be downgrading Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. They appear to have forgotten history. I seriously think they are reading texts very similar to the ones Texas and Louisiana Public Schools under Governors Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal continue to adopt for their diversifying student bodies but without any trace of race relations at home and abroad.

M: Dude! I did not know that the Japanese-Russo War was such a source of oxygen for the Asian continent and that Togo Heihachiro was celebrated throughout Asia, prompting people as far apart in culture as India naming their heirs after the Japanese admiral.

D: Man! That is a piece of history that is blurred to favor instead the Occidental West, not the Oriental East.

M: Dude! The Republican Party has lifted the Paul Ryan misleading blueprint Path To Prosperity and replaced it with an even more unsound document entitled The House Republican Plan For America’s Job Creators: Empowering Families, Small Businesses, and Entrepreneurs. What about US, the middle and working classes and the poor?  

D: Man! They state in the third page of the latest document you listed, that they would favor quote unquote job creators by reducing governmental regulations on greenhouse gases and pesticides and another 184 that cost US American jobs.

M: Dude! The GOP Republicans want US to suffer as they wade about like lame ducks in the pool of sequestration that is in every way a sinkhole for the disenfranchised. The Americans that lose jobs as a result of regulations are large and small businesspeople.

D: Man! So the people hiring US will get regulatory leeway under the Republican Party’s Plan? Does that mean that the poor, working, and middle classes and their needs are not at all addressed in the Republican Plan?

M: Dude! Yes. Yes! Without business regulations, shopkeepers and storeowners will begin by abusing infrastructure as well as employee livelihoods. Remember that gift shop across from the Texas Occidental Franchise University’s main campus?

D: Man! The one that sold fudge and soap products side-by-side?

M: Dude! Please don’t remind me! But, you’re right about that being the place I’m referring to here.

D: Man! A lot of places sell their food items next to caustic products! There ought to be government regulations about what nonperishable materials you can place next to food items. The fudge at the gift shop was really unappetizing. I heard that the owner purposefully sold mediocre perishables so she did not have to incur too much overhead.

M: Dude! Imagine a world where that gift shop’s keeper’s mentality were the order of the day. Basic civility will be chucked out the door and even more so if Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is chucked as well.

D: Man! The Republicans are not for US! They are playing a perverse game of chess where all of US poor, working, and middle classes are stripped of our core respectability.

M: Dude! Human rights! The Republican Party Of Texas website proudly states that the Texas House Republican Caucus voted in opposition to Medicaid expansion as proposed under the Affordable Care Act.

D: Man! Under the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, anti-retroviral drugs are keeping so many HIV positive individuals alive! And the Medicaid expansion would only mean less disease transmission as a result of more education and self-care initiatives among the afflicted! You know, Bobby Jindal in Louisiana will have ample evidence of artificial selection as a result of the deaths incurred by US, but will remain adamant about the creationist mumbo jumbo remaining in public school curricula even as we die!