Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Uppity Funders and The Doctor From India Who Used The Caste System On Me

I'm looking into funding, as all startups usually need funds if they want to grow fast. So I've been around a few sites and I came across this one site, and I just thought they were perfect. Everything they said sounded like an exact match for me and my two startups.

Well, they have a problem.

Of course they dressed it up in disguise, but I saw it right away. All I could think was, are these super intelligent people falling victim to the human condition of ignorance? I had a tiny bit of hope they were not, so I hit enter to find out. Yep, the results were. “You did not get excepted into our program, if we open it up in the future we will contact you” LMAO, super smart people being ignorant? Yes, they can fall victim to it, and they did.

You see they only asked me 4 questions.
  • Did I go to college?
  • Am I planning on going to college?
  • Will I be enrolled in college soon?
  • None of these apply.

How could you know who I am or what my startups are with those 4 questions? Now your site did not say, we only want college educated people. No it did not say we only want young people in college. Or we only want people planning to go to college. No, you knew that would be inappropriate so you hid your ignorance, just like the doctor from India.

Let me tell you about this doctor. I worked in a hospital, and my job at the time was a nurse assistant. Which is a wonderful job that I absolutely loved. I love taking care of people. No matter who they are. So it was in my first few months at this hospital, and I noticed this cute really short woman from India. She most likely immigrated to our great country, because she still had a very strong Indian accent.

I would see her talking to her patients and she was absolutely lovely, and wonderful and charming and I could tell her patients really loved her. So one day I came around the corner and entered the doctor dictation area. I was two feet in front of her face and I smiled and said hello, how are you?

This is what happened: She gave me the look of “how dare you talk to me” The look of “You are below me” The look of “You are scum of the earth and the scum of the earth have no rights to talk to me” She refused to say one word to me. Yep, she made sure that in the 4 seconds that she looked at me that I understood, I should never speak to her, because I am a person way below her, and basically I do not exist. I was astounded. How could this kind person I've seen be so pleasantly polite to her patients, treat me as if I do not qualify to talk to her? How could she treat me like I have no rights to be alive in the country I was born in?

A few weeks later, I was on the elevator, and some visitors to the hospital were on it with me. The door opened up and low and behold there stood the cute little Indian doctor, she had to get on the elevator with us, and you know what I did? I put on a great big smile and said Hello. Well, she was in a dilemma, she hated me because I was way below her, and I was not to talk to her, but if she did what she did to me before in the public view she knew she would be judged. So she had to succumb, and grumble a hello to me.

Oh Yeah! It was so sweet. Her ignorance exposed. You see, what is she going to do, the day her car rolls and I'm the one who pulls her out of the wreckage, and ties a tourniquet around her bleeding, dangling body part? Then I go back to the car and get her grandson out before the car explodes into a fire? She will probably scream "I'd rather die, then have you touch me" I mean after all I have cooties. 

What is she going to do when a human being she believes to be lower then her, helps her, in her time of need? What if that person is me, the one she so rudely disrespected, because of her ignorance? She believes that not all humans are the same. Not all people deserve respect and dignity.

Yep, America has it's scar, Racism, and the way we enslaved Africans and treated them like they were so different from us. India has outlawed, the Caste System, yet it still is ingrained on the people. We have outlawed slavery, but we still have had to, and have struggled with racism.

What the hell is wrong with people? Why do we walk right into ignorance and pretend were so smart? “Oh were not judging humans, were being business like” Yeah Right. By not letting me into your little funding group because I refused to answer the college questions, you just did an Indian Caste system/ American racism ignorance behavior.

You see I have been to college, but college never worked out for me. They mostly wanted my money and they had no idea how to shape my gifts. And I have gifts! And really, come on, Bill Gates, Mark Zurkerberg, okay I'm not smart like them. Yet, there are so many people that are successful and they did not complete college. Why would you focus on this? Every idea is an opportunity. Not just the ones from people who go to college, or graduated from college, or intend to go to college. Are you crazy? How can very intelligent people be so ignorant? Well, that doctor was super smart, but she had her countries history ingrained into her being. Maybe your funding group has something ingrained in you?

I would never be interested in your group in the future, because you lack the human condition: passion for all beings. Oh you can judge on skin color, birth placement, education, age, male or female, all you want. The truth is: the ignorance you displayed has only accomplished one thing ~ not looking at the idea. 

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