Evil Genius
What's worse then an evil genius who was caught? Answer: One who has not been caught. Just this afternoon, I was walking around PS when this lady approached me to sell me something. I thought it was charity to help ex-convicts fund their education or something. Turns out, when I took the pens from her, it was actually from some be a millionaire organization and the words "This is not a charitable organization." jumps out from the brochure of sorts. Immediately, I began to have a million thoughts running through my head. Some about money, some about the organization. To sum it up, I felt uncomfortable.
Then, afterwards, I started to think about everything when I finished my mission to obtain the yellow cloth. Why did I feel uncomfortable? Do I want to help ex-convicts? Yes I do. Then I reasoned that the non-charitable part of it must have been the main factor of unease. There was recollection of things that had been said to me in the past regarding such, incidents.
But what's wrong with it? There was once when a lady tried to sell us something. She was quite critically questioned by my companion that day. And it all sounded reasonable, the logic and all. She could be working somewhere with a proper job instead of selling such things.
It's like selling tissue paper, if you think about it. Those poor old men and women walking around selling tissue paper. If there was a choice; IF they were rich would they have to do that? Maybe they could get a job. But MAYBE they might never get one. And this goes for exconvicts as well. For all the yellow ribbon movement, the crux still falls on employers whether they want to hire them.
The record. That blackmark on your name follows you forever. Like they say, it is a second prison. Why? Why have such a record if it increases the likelihood of rejection, are bias against the exconvicts themselves. Everyone makes mistakes; how severely punished you are is another thing in itself. If exconvicts could, say, be talented enough to hold a high paying job or even pursue a college degree but all is thwarted by this blackmark, is it fair? If the worry is that one is educating a potential criminal, what about an evil genius who was never ever close to being caught. Isn't that even more scary?
And all the sociological stuff that I studied about class, deviance etc came to mind as well. Let's hope they do get another chance.
SrslyJude
2:55 AM
