'IF THE SHOE FITS'
“If the Shoe Fits” 2/7/2022
Upon reporting to my part-time job at Home Depot in North Carolina on February 2nd, I noticed a large pamphlet on the table in the employees’ break room, titled: “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Playbook – activities and materials for associates at The Home Depot.” I approached the assistant manager on duty, to question him about the appropriateness of this kind of propaganda in the workplace but he refused to discuss the matter with me. The next day I requested a meeting with the store manager to discuss the matter. I told him that the pamphlet was Marxist propaganda and that I objected to its dissemination by Home Depot. He gave me the phone number of the district HR representative to whom I spoke. She assured me that the pamphlet was for informational purposes only, but then she said that if I was unhappy with conditions at Home Depot, I was free to leave. I asked her why she would say such a thing and reiterated my objections. In further discussions with the manager, he told me that there were “numerous complaints about you discussing politics while at work.” Yet It is Home Depot that has brought politics into the workplace, specifically Marxist indoctrination including video modules that employees are required to watch e.g.: about “unconscious bias,” which along with “equity” is part of the Marxist corruption of our language and our institutions.
Page three of the “playbook” is intended to illustrate the difference between “Equality” and “Equity.” Equality is defined as “everyone is treated the same way, regardless of different needs” and gives the example: The coach gives all of his players the exact same shoes. Equity is defined as: “ensures just and fair opportunities and outcomes, allowing individuals to reach their full potential” and uses the example: The coach gives all of his players shoes that are their size. The only good thing about this pamphlet is that it illustrates the abject stupidity of the people who wrote it! No doubt the writer of this drivel has a degree from a prestigious liberal arts college: the philosophy is straight out of the writings of Karl Marx and the examples are the product of indoctrination and limited intelligence.
Since the Home Depot HR department saw fit to issue this pamphlet under the cover of Black History month, I think it appropriate to recount some of the history I have learned. The equality and freedom which Americans have enjoyed for more than two centuries, bequeathed to us by the Founders and paid for with the blood of heroes, is the engine for the innovation and wealth creation which turned this country into the greatest in human history. Our ancestors, who marched shoeless into the Valley Forge encampment in the winter of 1777 created a system that provided its citizens with a standard of living they could not have imagined, including, of course, shoes of immense variety and numbers. The pamphlet includes descriptions of figures from Black history, including the great educator Booker T. Washington and the great orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Not mentioned in the pamphlet is someone who had incalculable impact on the lives of Black Americans, the great emancipator Abraham Lincoln. All three of these extraordinary men had one thing in common: membership in the Republican Party. I bring up this fact to illustrate how the Marxists have damaged education and the teaching of history along with the understanding of economics. Equity is the punishment of hard-working, law-abiding citizens and the rewarding of con artists e.g.: the founders of BLM, who are under investigation because $60 million in donations are unaccounted for.
To return to the mundane part of my story: while at work the following day, I was approached by another assistant manager who instructed me to put a mask on. I replied that I would not, as I had not worn a mask at work for approximately 2 months. She then asked me to accompany her to see the manager, who told me that if I would not wear a mask I would not be allowed to work as that was Home Depot policy. Interesting, considering that at no time during our previous interactions had the manager said anything to me about wearing a mask nor even seem to notice that I was not wearing one. Perhaps that is because a number of other employees have not been wearing masks or have worn them down around their chins, perhaps using the manager's intermittent mask wearing as an example. I asked him a hypothetical question: “If it were Home Depot policy that all employees must wear their undergarments as outerwear, would you comply?” He said: “If I wanted to bring home a paycheck, I would.” I responded: “That’s the difference between the two of us.”
It is long past time for all Americans to recognize the rot in our educational system, to stand up to the Marxists and petty tyrants and reclaim our freedoms. It is past time to root out the corruption in Government and elsewhere, including the big pharmaceutical companies which are pocketing billions during the pandemic. If a small group of shoeless patriots can win a revolution, it is not too much to ask for their descendants to take a stand for the freedoms they gave us. From Canadian truckers to soccer moms in Loudon County, Virginia, people are fed up with the lies, stupidity and tyranny. It is time to take the mask off, lace up your big boy shoes and join the battle.
Gene Comiskey
Tryon, North Carolina