Posted on 06/27/2012 8:06:52 AM PDT by Albion Wilde
An unemployed Brooklyn man missed a job interview Tuesday for the best of reasons: He was saving the life of a 9-month-old boy who was blown into the path of an oncoming subway train by a gust of high wind.
Like a superhero without a cape, Delroy Simmonds jumped onto the elevated tracks and hoisted the bleeding child — still strapped into his stroller — to the safety of the platform as the J train bore down on them.
The father of two then shrugged off his courageous, selfless act.
“Everybody is making me out to be some sort of superhero,” the father of two told the Daily News on Tuesday night. “I’m just a normal person. Anybody in that situation should have done what I did”...
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I am glad you posted this. I know there are a lot of decent very good blacks, but it is easy to loose site of this with story after story of the dysfunctional masses in that community and the socially disproportionate 95% support for a horrible president. It is frustrating and it builds anger in all of us... probably even more amongst the decent blacks who don’t want to be associated with “the culture.”
I search out good stories like this and good role models like Thomas Sowell, Condi Rice, Herman Cain and locals to help me stay balanced and fair.
We must treat all we meet as individuals and figure out who they are on the actions we see. It has to be frustrating to be a conservative black person.
Bless you,Mr. Simmonds.
Bless you,Mr. Simmonds.
GREAT JOB Mr. Simmonds!!!! I hope the firm you were going to interview you hires you.
Amen to your post!
This is most definitely a “God at work” story. Way to go Delroy!
He looks vaguely familiar. I’d like to think he’s one of my school’s graduates. It’s possible. He’s not one of mine — the only Delroy I’ve taught had a different last name.
Kudos to Mr. Simmonds for a courageous and selfless act that saved the life of an innocent child.
I’m sure that after this Mr. Simmonds will not lack for job offers.
“Somehow, I don’t think he’s going to have any problem being offered a job.”
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Indeed. He’ll be all over the NYC media and rightly so.
What ever happened to that other guy who performed an heroic lifesaving act on the NYC subway system. I think he actually laid on the tracks and shielded someone.
As someone who has to interview candidates, if someone came into my office to interview, the baseball cap would be a negative.
Appearance and grooming count, to me at least. If there were plugs, rings, posts and visible tattos, that would be a negative to me. However, if I see that someone has made an effort to remove those devices, that would count as a positive.
If this guy was going to visit a friend, I wouldn’t think twice about his hat or much else, I would probably be more focused on his face and posture. And to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, perhaps he was going to take his hat off for the interview.
But to me, I wouldn’t hire someone for any position if they don’t present themselves well. Without the hat, the guy looks like a reasonable candidate to me.
I immediately posted this to my facebook page.
Good news is nice for a change!
God bless this man and his family, and may they prosper!
Well, politics aren’t really the issue here. If the man jumped down and saved the kid, that is a postive thing regardless of whether he is a flaming liberal or a Tea Partyer.
Also, his appearance is only important to me in the context that he was going for a job interview. If that were not the case, I would find nothing about his appearance to sway me negatively. (I don’t like the thug look, but I don’t really view the hat as the thug look. The hat, in conjunction with baggy pants with the underwear showing, etc., well, THAT is different. And, like most normal people, I DO make judgements on that basis.
One of the things that irritates me to no end is people who castigate others for making judgements on appearance. Now, I do draw the line. I am not going make judgements on someone who has bad skin, scars, is overweight, is unattractive, is of a different skin color, etc. because...they cannot, for the most part, control those things.
But if someone comes in for an interview wearing Pippi Longstocking striped stockings on her legs, goth makeup and green dyed hair, well, that is different. They CHOOSE to be that way.
Same way with people who dress like gang bangers. They may be nice people, love their pets and be faithful to their wife, but if you dress like people who assault other people, you shouldn’t be surprised if people treat you that way.
To reiterate: I don’t see this gentleman the same way.
Seems appropriate attire for that type of job. God Bless Mr. Simmonds, and may he find a job soon.
“Behold a man”
I'd send him a suit but he appears to be a mite taller than I am lol...
Good Job Mr Simmons, and good luck at your next job interview, which I somehow think won’t be long in coming.
I meant to add that you do NOT go to apply for a job as a maintenance man in a 3 piece suit. He wouldn’t get in the door.
Just out of curiosity, I wonder if someone will establish a fund for him similar to that re: contributions to the bullied schoolbus granny. I also wonder how much executive attire one must don for a maintenance job. I know people who don’t even own a suit. They have work clothes. They attend church in their work clothes.
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