Author: Natasha Sapp

There is a contentious war on employment centering around not just women and mothers but who is classified as good enough to work more than in a fortune 500 company…but who is good enough to work in a front office, who is good enough to work even management at fast food, who is good enough to be in your employ often based on attractiveness.

Putting aside the biblical proportions and implications, individuals, young or old, religious, non-religious, who frankly don’t want to hasten the day we all have barcodes on or foreheads displaying our bank account balance to one machine, our medical history to a robot charged with dispensing treatment, care, preventative measures, our traffic history to the police, car insurance carrier, spending habits to our financial adviser now an A.I. with one of those off-putting computer generated voices, and let’s think practicality.

Here is a man who believes great is the world today, but greater are the things to come, willing to do his part in seeing the achievement of that possibility… Indeed I too see a deeper vision.

Worse than the hodgepodge throwing together of superficial, supposed facts to make a point no one really cares about anyway, the undeniable, tangible fact the Pew study they cite is from 2007 before the financial crisis turned the country on its head, worse than the blatant race touting and race shaming are the correlations, extrapolations and amalgamations made between Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and The Triple Package in reference to criticizing American parenting, American education and American success.

…let us likewise remember this young man completed the sentence before him, met the specific additional parameters for behavior and rehabilitation while in juvenile detention, which is part of why he is getting out when he is. The additional stipulations to sentencing suggest that, had he not met the behavioral expectations, he could have been held longer than the year given.