Today I was reviewing an offender's data sheet before his plea (does he live in our neighborhood? work at my favorite restaurant?). Name, Address, Employment - nothing of interest. But then I get down to Ethnicity.
In the Ethnicity blank he wrote:
Christian (Methodist)
ahahahaha *cough* haha *gulp* hahahaha *spit*
Now usually this would just be a sad case of an under-educated offender. Not a problem for me - kids drop out of school to take care of their own families, when things are fucked up at home, for financial reasons, addictions, etc - sometimes school just isn't a priority and when you are a kid you are just too young to realize (or care) how it may affect you in the future...
But I digress. THIS particular dude is not an under-educated bum. He is a junior.in.college. A white upper-class male who's father is an attorney. In fact, he attends the same outstanding institution at which I'm completing my master's program.
I don't know, is this a negative reflection on me - that someone could get through three years of college, at my university, and not know the difference between ethnicity and religion?! I am not pleased.
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