I really don’t get it!. Why should discrimination be boldly spelt out and everybody sees it as a normal thing. discrimination comes in different shapes and sizes, be it ethnicity, sex, skin colour……name it!. I see it everywhere and it is sickening.
I see discrimination boldly without any element of shame, where a certain organisation, whether public or privately owned, hires only people from a particular ethnic group…..I have seen this and experienced it too……once you enter, they tell you without courtesy that you don’t belong when they start speaking a particular language.
In another case where an organisation places an advert, saying “women are encouraged to apply” or “persons living with HIV/AIDS are encouraged to apply” when they know within themselves that they do not wish to hire a woman because they think……she may get married, or even pregnant…. and will be ‘distracted’ even when they know she is qualified and would be the best person to fill that position or nobody would want to share a toilet with a PLWHA. A friend of mine, recently saw an advert posted on the internet, called a friend who worked in that particular organisation and the friend told her not to bother applying for the job, that they needed a man for the position.Mschewwwww. Why do they do this?
Another scenario would be a situation where you visit an organisation, you find that most of the employees are some how linked………they are employed because they know a fellow employee, whether they are qualified or not for the job they are employed………they could be round pegs in square holes or that they can’t fit into any hole at all……….and this sincerely breaks my heart.
There is discrimination everywhere, and we getting so used to it as a way of life. Even the language we speak must be sensitive, and agreeable and not otherwise. We should learn to act and speak things in a manner that shows Love, Peace and Respect for each other.
We act now not thinking of our children, and the future generations or the future of an organisation. Sometimes I wonder, why we don’t look beyond the moment…….If we do…………..I bet we will have a better society not for now but for the future.
Imagine this: A patriotic sportsman was refused to represent Nigeria at the Olympics because he is not from a particular ethnic group and just maybe he would have won a medal for Nigeria.
A woman was refused a job because she just happens to be a woman and then can’t feed her children because she is a breadwinner and we all know how the circle is.
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