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Re: Felonys, Misdemeanors, and Background checks....
Posted by Rae on 10/09/08

    I TRULY AGREE ! What good is moving into the future if you are so
    oftenly confronted with your past! We are all human, and we have all
    made mistakes, no matter how large or how small. I believe a great
    amount of Ex-offenders out there have paid or completed their crucial
    debt to society. So why should they suffer further consequence when
    these debts have been paid already! Or in other words, WHY PAY TWICE?
    It just isn't right! They say your past is suppose to make you
    stronger, and if you have developed into a new person as a whole why
    shouldn't society take this into consideration and look at you for who
    you today and not for what you were 5 years ago? Society is making the
    huge mistake of leaving those ex-offenders with a small gleam of hope
    not none at all! AND THEN THEY EXPECT TO BETTER THE ECONOMY? YA RITE !
    How about actually taking the time to hear us as individual speak? Why
    must we constantly feel hopeless and ashamed because of one mistake in
    the past. Why must we who have learned our lesson, not be given a
    chance to prove who we really are in our efforts to change? What ever
    happened to a second chance?
    This is discrimination! Maybe not the illegal kind but the social
    kind, the feeling of being left out. We are constantly skipped over
    and not given the time to prove ourselves, because of the next
    individual out there with the record clearer than ours. Honestly, what
    is shown that this individual has learned? and if so, what does this
    person's life value? There has seemed to be nothing learned!

    In fact, What is a record? Nothing but a mere form of document, one
    that claims to explain your history in 4 short sentences. Does this
    record state your past or present struggles? Does this record truly
    explain your personality in detail? Does this record justify your
    beliefs and values? and does this record expand in detail of the
    efforts you have accomplished today? The simple answer is No.
    So then what exactly is the purpose of this thing called record? To
    leave those people who today are working harder than those with a
    clean record hopeless? To destroy the pride and dignity that we once
    possessed and so dearly tried to improve? To eliminate us one by one
    being in efforts to show that we are no longer needed on the face of
    this earth? This thing called record is nothing but a document of
    destruction, poorly written and unstrained. This record, claims to
    know you more than you know your self. and if this is so, we might as
    well make efforts to make this record worse, being that we have
    nothing promised for tomorrow.

    Let's think present! Give ex-offenders another chance!

     
     

 
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