System Failure...

"Alert, alert, Will Robinson, danger, danger!" said Robot B-9 from Lost in Space; reminding his young charge of the dangers lurking, the system failing. System failure - many systems can fail: family, friends, computers, social services, the government and I believe this list can go on and on.

But what do we do when the system fails us?  Do we jump ship? Leave it all behind? Or do we just implode as the system fails and all signals are lost. How do we know when the system will fail? Do we then just walk away from the wreckage of our lives, hoping that this system failure will not take us down with the ship?

The system has failed me, time and time again. And has it failed me because of the color of my skin? Although it pales in comparison to most, it is indeed colored. It has not been seen so because no one has bothered to check. How many systems have failed me?

Back before it was "in" I was fired for sexually harassing a vice president. How does one sexually harass a superior? Is it because the system in place was meant for him and not for me? Yet when the tables were reversed, it once again failed me due to the color of another's skin. And because my skin  pales in comparison with others, the system has failed me as well, time and time again.

Yet I will bring it back. I will be the one that other's will be hoping that Robot B-9 will be alerting all for the looming danger. I am writing a book entitled "System Failure". And everybody is in! Are you all excited yet? You should be. The very system that was put up to protect me and only failed me time and time again will pay its due, but this time to me.
The system itself will fail, as it has failed me.

System Failure...