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Mom and Dad suffered ethnic and religious discrimination : Jann Scotts Journal
Jan 20th
My mother and father were 2nd generation Americans . My grandparents on my father’s side had immigrated from Southern Italy. Grand parents.on my mother side emigrated from Poland. My parents met at a high school dance in 1932.
They had both changed their last names to Americanize.their future.
They both had stories of extreme prejudice when they were children. Name calling, insults, race baiting , religious discrimination …..I heard all of the stories growing up. On occasion I was subject to some of it myself even with a fully Anglo name.
When I see hatred toward Mexican immigrants or African-Americans in this day, I can’t help but think the discrimination my own family faced in the early 20th century.
Both my parents were Roman Catholic so I had a lot I f religious training. I go to mass to this day. I am one oi f those people who never had a problem with the church…. and I think my parents made sure I was safe. But I have had a close spiritual connection with Mother Teresa, pope John Paul, Michael Moore, Governor Jerry Brown, St. Francis of Assisi.
During the 1960s my dad ran a company in very white wasp Connecticut and he did something unthinkable… he hired Hispanics and African-Americans ….. I think it was after he heard Martin Luther King speak….. he said “the exact same thing happened to me and my parents…. we can’t let thus go on. It stops here with me in this company.”
Of course he was a combat vet from wwii and fought in Patton’s. 3rd Army. Gen. George Patton was the 1st general to integrate his troops when he called up a crack Negro Armoured division to break through Nazi lines when Patton’s white troops were surrounded. They ended up being the most accurate gunners If the war. My dad never forgot them. “They saved our lives…yes my life” he said The Negro troops also had the only top-secret night vision. Eisenhower had put Negro troops in charge if the red ball express which had night vission…..and so did their tanks.
So when I was a little kid growing up in my father’s company I spent my summers working on all black crews…where I learned how to work.
…pace….and about black American culture. I never learned prejudice. I actually learned cool colloquial terms, gospel music, military jargon and how to drink Gin and chew tobacco at the same time. That takes practice.
In my own company today in 2015 in Boulder we practice no discrimination. That is we give equal pay and opportunities to all people’s. Who ever does the best work gets paid and promoted.
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study 50 percent dope deaths are teens, Boulder
Jul 8th
As Boulder descends into drug hell with addiction at epidemic levels Jann Scott goes after Boulder Colorado city officials for pushing dope onto it’s children . Boulder Colorado has legalized drugs. There are hundreds of drug Emporiums. Children go in and buy drugs every day. And then they overdose and die. The city is composed a bunch of pedophiles to allow this to happen. Teenagers laugh at the adults because they are stupid. Now the kids have created a huge underground syndicate of drug dealing.
LAST NIGHT I LEARNED ABOUT A FRIEND I TRIED TO HELP WHO KILLED HERSELF AS THE RESULT OF BEING INVOLVED IN BOULDERS DRUG TRADE.
Trinda ended her life in her garage on Saturday with a bullet to the head. At one point she had 22 years in NA. The last 6 years were rough. There was the divorce, the relapses, the treatment centers, the new younger musician drug addict boyfriend and finally the 200,000 square foot marijuana grow center. Her recovery consisted of heavy sedatives and marijuana. Then there was the CU student intern who overdosed on her drugs and died in her den. There were the cops, police investigations, no knock warrants, DUID stops for her and the boyfriend. There was the coke, the H. the pills, the drinks and there was the sorority image to uphold. There was the money and the prestigious family. In the end it all worked against her. She would not “drop the anvil and get back in the boat”
Sometime last Spring she went completely mad, full on with paranoia, delusions and drug induced psychosis. And finally, after she could not take it anymore , she ended it all. She went to the gun store , bought a hi powered hand gun and shot her self with one final act of destruction.
She chose not to work through the pain into health, but kept using until the dope took her life. It all really went to hell for her when she opened the grow center. ” this was a really stupid idea I know it” she once said. “I can’t stand the pot . it makes me psychotic. I have to take narcotics to make the feelings go away.”
For you and I who want to live clean, it is petty simple; don’t use, stay away from people places and things who will try to ruin our lives. and we get to live happy joyous and free for eternity.