REJECTED by HR managers, Roger Eliott turned his rage into a spree that stunned New York.
OCTOBER 27, 1915
ROGER Eliott was a 22-year-old black man when he made a deeply disturbing speech to “exact retribution” against hiring professionals for rejecting him.
He was upset, he said, because managers continued to reject him summarily despite his belief that he indeed had the talent to ascend higher and become one of them.
“I’ve never even been invited to an interview … It has been very torturous,” he whined on a soapbox in the corner of Central Park, while delivering his roughly seven-minute-long diatribe that no-one really cared to listen to, save for three rather disinterested looking retirees who were lounging there anyway, his wife, this journalist, and a couple of stray dogs for good measure.
Instead of blaming himself and his own CV writing skills, Eliott blamed the hiring managers — and not just those who had turned him down, but “every spoiled, stuck-up, white brat” who “would have rejected me and looked down upon me as an inferior black man”.
The next day he went on a murderous rampage, stabbing and killing three women before riding to the HR department of J. C. Penney headquarters and shooting three male professionals there. He then remounted his steed and rode down the 5th Avenue, trying all he could to trample innocent passers-by before finally turning the gun on himself.
His story is at the absolute extreme end of the scale of scorned men taking rejection badly. But it’s, unfortunately, by no means the only story of its kind. The just remedy, then, seems to be for the media to bully back into obedience all those black rejects who so in vain aspire to qualified posts without the higher God-given order justifying it, luckily for them only to be turned down and put in place they belong.
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