Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Looking at the Worst Towns in America: Sundown Towns | Prism of the Past

Sundown towns are STILL a thing in America. People of Color are still being harassed and discrimated against in such towns. We have sundown towns and neighborhood in and around Dayton. Oakwood, Brookville, Miamisburg, Carlisle, Kettering, Bellbrook, Union, Phillipsburg, Tipp City, Beavercreek, and Springboro. Let's not underestimate that most Trump supporters are from sundown towns all over America. We as people of Color need to be vigilant as are antiracist and progressive whites and others. May James Loewen rest in peace. Thanks, Dr. Loewen. Without your diligent work, this painful aspect of America would've been forgotten and victims of racism are being told that "it's in the past" and "don't make it about race."
Be sure to read his book before bigots, racists, and anti Critical Race Theory censors ban this book.

Sunday, July 07, 2019

The End of Ebony Magazine

 Ebony Magazine Cover from Spring 2019



Sad news for Black media. Johnson Company magazine, Ebony, is on life support. The once-iconic Black news and celebrity magazine, the Time magazine of Black America, abruptly fired all of its staff and writers with close to no notice.

I used to read both Ebony and Jet magazine and was looking forward to the next issue.  For decades, Ebony and Jet has been one of several Black-owned publications that gives us news that are not reported in mainstream media.  The writers and editors bring objective news information pertaining to Black America as well as entertainment and fashion.  It was that magazine that cover fashion and started Fashion Fair fashion events to various cities around the nation because Black women weren't allow to model fashion due to Jim Crow and general American racism.  Those shows were very popular among Black women and Black organizations.  The company also started Fashion Fair cosmetics that are still sold in department stores around the country. 

It's so sad to see the magazine I grew up as a child and teenager gone forever.  I hope someone buy the archives so we can read about historic milestones of Black America without distortions and lies so often offered in mainstream media.

With so few news outlets catering to Black America, this is the biggest blow to our collective history as well as getting accurate information without bias and distortion that often comes from mainstream media outlets. 

Rest in peace, Ebony and Jet!

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Here's the scoop from The Atlanta Voice:

Ebony and Jet magazines fire remainder of staff, may close
Legacy publications beset by financial issues by Miana Massey, Atlanta Voice
Ebony magazine — along with its sister publication Jet — has potentially closed its doors for good.

Former employees of the company took to Twitter last week using the hashtag #EbonyOwes to air out their frustrations with the company, as it has fired all of its employees with little to no notice.

According to USA Today, members of Ebony magazine’s digital team say they’ve been fired and haven’t received their final paychecks in the latest controversy to hit the struggling publication that has chronicled black life in America for decades.

Michael Gibson, co-chairman and founder of Austin, Texas-based Clear View Group, which owns Ebony, declined to comment to USA Today on the digital team’s dismissal, citing a “policy of not commenting on any employment practices or issues.”

The Chicago Tribune previously reported how Ebony was being pressed by the National Writers Union to pay more than $200,000 it alleged the magazine owed to freelance writers who contributed stories back in 2017. The drama sparked the hashtag #EbonyOwes on Twitter.

According to a report on Ebony.com, the magazine’s previous owner, Johnson Publishing Co., filed for bankruptcy liquidation in April, which Ebony said would not affect its operations.

“EBONY Media Operations, LLC brands, which include EBONY magazine, EBONY.com, digital magazine JET and jetmag.com and its related businesses, have viably operated independently of Johnson Publishing Company dba/ Fashion Fair Cosmetics (JPC) since Black-owned Ebony Media Operations, LLC (EMO) purchased the media assets of JPC in 2016. Black-owned investment firm CVG Group LLC assisted in the formation of EMO,” a statement read. “EMO is unaffected by the Chapter 7 bankruptcy announcement regarding the dissolution of JPC. EMO is not able to comment further and is not familiar with the facts or events of the JPC business.”
The first issue of the iconic magazine hit stands 74 years ago and took the industry by storm.

 Founded by John H. Johnson in November 1945, the black-owned publication has striven always to address African-American issues, personalities and interests in a positive and self-affirming manner.

Editions of Ebony featured some of the biggest stars in Black America, including issues covered by Diana Ross, Sidney Poitier, as well as President and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama.

Monday, July 01, 2019

Black Man Was Nearly Beaten To Death In Oklahoma

Shawn Carolina(Shown with his family in the photo above) was nearly
beaten to death by white supremacists in Oklahoma. 
The mainstream media won't cover this and neither do racist Colin Flaherty
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You won't hear this from Colin Flaherty nor from Faux news because this doesn't fit their racist rhetoric about Black men.  Blacks are the victims of real hate crimes in America.  The news media and law enforcement along with the American public don't take these crimes against Blacks seriously because of white supremacist society's devaluation of Blacks and Black life.

This man pictured above is Shawn Carolina.  Mr. Carolina was nearly beaten to death by two white/white presenting thugs in the parking lot of Brickhouse Saloon in Shawnee, Oklahoma. 

According to Raw Story, Mr. Carolina was beaten by two White men in the parking lot.  The men shout out racial slurs as they beat both men.  Here's the rest of this horrendous story:

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White men caught on camera brutally beating Black Oklahoma man while yelling racial slurs.



Two white men over the weekend were caught on camera brutally beating a black man and his friend while yelling racial slurs.
Local news station KFOR reports that Shawn Carolina of Shawnee, Oklahoma this weekend was in the parking lot of the local Brickhouse Saloon, where he had just finished having drinks with a friend.
In the parking lot, the two men were confronted by two other men who had been in the brewery with them. The two men proceeded to viciously beat Carolina and his friend — and as they walked away from them, one of them shouted out, “You’re dead, n****r!”
Shawn’s wife, Jamie Carolina, tells KFOR she was appalled by the men’s actions.
“After they knocked him out, why continue to beat him?” she asked. “They just pounded on him like he was nothing.”
Shawn Carolina was taken to the hospital to be treated for injuries that were described by KFOR as “life threatening,” and he is still in the hospital recovering from the beating.
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Shawn Carolina family has set up a Go Fund Me Fund to help out with medical expenses:
So far, not one ounce of sympathy coming from Oklahoma's Republican governor, Kevin Stitt.  As a matter of fact, most nonblack Oklahomans voted for the white supremacist president who wanted to rollback hate crime protections for victims.  He's the same guy who said that the alt white protesters are "good people".  Good people, my a@@!
May he and his family receive the help they so need and put those punks in jail for life and to get justice they so deserve.

Sunday, June 30, 2019

The Roxbury(Boston) Murders: 40 Years Later: The Estuary Project

11 black women were murdered in Boston 40 years ago. A local artist is remembering them across the city.


These are six of eleven women who were slain in Boston.
They are young and beautiful Black women with futures ahead of them.


The following has been written by a good reporter by the name of Dialynn Dwywer of Boston.com in commemoration of the 40th year anniversary of the Boston Murders.  The unsolved serial murders of Black women have galvanized the Black community and the emergent Black feminist coalition, The Combahee River Collective and many known Black feminists around the country.  They were demanding accountability from the city, the police, and the citizens of Boston regarding the deaths of so many Black women in that city.  They discuss the misogynistic culture as well as the racism Boston is notorious for back in the 70s.

Here's the story of Kindra Hicks who is trying to commemorate the victims by erecting a collage of balloons at various locations where the women were murdered.  

Please read the story below:
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This is one of several balloon installments throughout Boston in commemoration of the women murdered in 1979

The artist behind the memorial project, Kindra Hicks


Forty years ago, the body of 29-year-old Daryal Ann Hargett was found by her landlord in her South End apartment.
The social worker, who was described as quiet and serious by those who knew her, had been stabbed to death. She was the fifth black woman to be murdered in Boston that year, and she wouldn’t be the last.
By the end of May 1979, the number of women murdered in Boston would rise to 12. All but one were black.
The bodies of the 11 black women — all between the ages of 15 and 34 — were found in Roxbury, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, the South End, and Back Bay. 
Kendra Hicks, a local artist and community organizer, will remember Hargett’s death on Thursday with a 24-hour art installation near where the 29-year-old’s body was found. Since January, Hicks has been putting up temporary artwork for each of the women who died in the rash of violence 40 years ago.
“One of the things I wanted to pose really was, ‘Who gets memorialized in the city and who’s allowed to be memorialized? Who has monuments erected in their name?’” Hicks told Boston.com.
A Boston native who grew up in Egleston Square, Hicks said she started doing community organizing work in her teens. Through her activism, she began studying black feminists and black feminism, which led her to discover the Combahee River Collective.
“The Combahee River Collective is a black, queer socialist collective that was here in Roxbury from 1974 to 1979, and they were one of the groups of women who basically responded to these murders when they were happening,” Hicks said. “They were creating literature for the women in the neighborhood when these murders were happening.”
It was about a year and a half ago that Hicks said she learned of the string of murders that rocked the black community at the time and decided to create artwork that would commemorate the 40th anniversary of the women’s deaths. With the help of a Kickstarter campaign and a crew of volunteers, she has been designing the installations for the 10-part memorial she calls “The Estuary Projects.”
“This is a guerrilla art project, so we don’t have any permits for them, so we’ve been putting them up and then going in and also taking them down,” Hicks said.
Putting up the artwork without permission is part of her message, she said.
“Taking space out in the city, on purpose in the public and without permission is very intentional as part of the project,” Hicks said. “Because I really do want to say that these black women do deserve to be memorialized.”
The installations go up early on the anniversary of each woman’s death near where they were found and come down 24 hours later.
“The other reason why I wanted to do installations is because the installations are really invitations for people in the community to remember our collective history but also what we survived in our community,” Hicks said. “So I knew that an installation right smack in the middle of where people are walking and spending their regular lives was going to be the way that I was going to be able to invoke that in people. To kind of spark that attention of, ‘Oh, what’s this thing that’s in the middle of my neighborhood and what does it mean?’ I wanted them to be very prominent and I wanted it to be visible and I wanted it to be public and I wanted it to be in the midst of people’s everyday doings.”
Hicks said the project has become very personal for her. She started it off by communicating the names of the 11 victims in the Bay State Banner, hoping she would be able to reach family members and friends of the women.
Then she spent hours reading about the women in newspaper archives — learning how the young women lived and the details of their violent deaths.
“It becomes overwhelming for me because you get to know all these women, and I’m creating an installation for each of these women,” she said. “But you also have to familiarize yourself with how they were taken.”
That impact is why Hicks said each of the installations features an alter and starts with a 9 a.m. ceremony where attendees light candles, say prayers, and sing songs for the victim.
The moment of remembrance is a reflection of her own process through the project, she said.
“There is a political statement that I’m making with these installations,” she said. “But it’s not lost on me that these are people and that these are women whose lives were lost. So the ritual and the ceremony is a way to honor them and to honor them as people who are our ancestors and as people who were taken in these moments.”
As she was developing the project, Hicks heard from the families of two of the women, and then a family friend showed up at one of the installations and was able to connect her to a third family.
“People are stumbling on the installations and being like, ‘Oh I knew this woman or I was around during this time,’” Hicks said. “And they start telling stories and kind of remembering.”
The installations, which run through May, are just the first part of the project.
For part two, Hicks wants to bring people together who were moved by the installations and work together to develop “alternative systems” for the neighborhoods.
“The story of the project for me is that the end of the world has come for black and brown people multiple times again,” Hicks said. “We’ve experienced things that could be considered apocalyptic. Similar to the time that we are in now. We’re having a lot of conversations about what’s happening in the world — climate change, politics, family separation, state violence — and it feels like a lot. Everybody’s kind of like, ‘Oh my God, what’s going on, the world is crumbling around us.’ So the installations are a reminder — no actually we’ve been here before. We’ve survived these kinds of things, and we’ve done it by being creative, by coming together, and by creating new things. So for me, I really want us to see this ending, this ending of the world, as an opportunity for us to build the new world.”
That’s why she chose to call the works and process “The Estuary Projects” — it’s meant to symbolize an ending and beginning at the same time.
“The other thing with an estuary is an estuary has its own ecosystem,” Hicks  said. “And so actually at the moment where an ending and beginning meet, where the river and ocean meet, there’s something brand new that’s created there. There’s like a brand new ecosystem. So I’m trying to signal us to think of this as an estuary moment.”
Another memorial in a different location
After the installation for Hargett, works for six other women will follow through May: 17-year-old Desiree Denise Etheridge, 22-year-old Darlene Rogers, 31-year-old Lois Hood Nesbitt, 19-year-old Valyric Holland, 30-year-old Sandra Boulware, and 34-year-old Bobbie Jean Graham. Artworks remembering Christine Ricketts, 15, Andrea Foye, 17, Gwendolyn Yvette Stinson, 15, and Caren Prater, 25, have already gone up and been taken down.
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While we can't bring the victims of the Boston 1979 murders back, we can memorialize their lives and help their surviving family members and their loved ones to survive as well as to help young Black women, men, and their children to avoid pitfalls and to beat the odds stacked against them in this increasingly racist, polarizing society. We can do this by mentoring, nurturing potential talent of our young Black girls and boys, etc.
Here's a pamphlet we need to read:
Also, visit Kendra Hicks' website:
The victims:
  • Christine (Chris) Ricketts, 15
  • Andrea Foye, 17 
  • Gwendolyn Yvette Stinson,15
  • Caren Prater, 25
  • Daryal Ann Hargett, 29
  • Desiree Denise Etheridge, 17
  • Darlene Rogers, 22
  • Lois Hood Nesbitt, 31
  • Valyric Holland, 19
  • Sandra Boulware, 30
  • Bobbie Jean Graham, 34

Sunday, April 16, 2017

New Black Bachelorette

The New Black Bachelorette


Romeo Rose is already pissed by ABC's selection of Rachel Lindsay, a
Sista, as being the first Black woman to head the upcoming dating series,
The Bachelorette


Back in February 14th, ABC revealed its first Black Bachelorette, Rachel Lindsay to star in the upcoming Bachelorette season.  For fifteen seasons since its inception, nay, fourteen, no Women of Color has ever star in the series.  JoJo Fletcher, a young woman of Persian and White descent, presided over the show last year.

Rachel Lindsay is an accomplished Lawyer from Texas, a conservative Republican state where the former bigot whose goes by the moniker "Romeo Rose" used to live.  I wish her well.






After 14 years of whitewashing, ABC finally cast Rachel Lindsay as the first Black bachelorette.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Joe Morrissey confirms child with former receptionist - NBC12 - WWBT - Richmond, VA News On Your Side

Joe Morrissey confirms child with former receptionist - NBC12 - WWBT - Richmond, VA News On Your Side


Creepy!


HENRICO, VA (WWBT) -

Virginia Senate candidate Joe Morrissey confirmed during a radio program on Wednesday morning he is the father of a child with his former receptionist.
Speaking on the Jack Gravely Show on WLEE radio, Morrissey confirmed he is the father of the 9-week-old baby, Chase, and said the mother is his girlfriend and former secretary, Myrna Pride.
"I am as engaged in Chase's life as a man could be. I'm super proud of Myrna and I love Chase," said Morrissey. "Chase is my blood. We had our baby, we love our baby."
NBC12 was the only TV station in the studio during the radio broadcast. 
"You seem to keep walking through the bullets, man. You seem to keep walking through the bullets," said Gravely about Morrissey's ability to continue his political career despite a long history of scandals.
Morrissey has scheduled a press conference with Myrna and Chase for 3 p.m. Thursday in front of his law office.
The former delegate is currently running for the Virginia Senate as an Independent in the 16th district, after the Democratic Party of Virginia rejected a number of his signatures for the primary. He faces competition from Senator Rosalyn Dance, who also called into the broadcast.
The race for Morrissey's former delegate seat now appears to be a two-candidate race between Leonidas Young and Lamont Bagby. David Lambert expressed interest in running for the Democratic nomination, but also came up with fewer valid signatures than required. Party officials say nearly half the 151 signatures submitted were from outside the 74th district or did not qualify for other reasons.
Pride was at the center of a case which led Morrissey to plead guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor charges in December. Prosecutors said he had a sexual relationship with her while she was 17 and working as a part-time receptionist at his law office. Morrissey, then a delegate, entered an Alford Plea to the misdemeanor count, which means he does not admit guilt, but understands there's enough evidence for him to be found guilty at trial.
"Myrna is 19 and some odd months, the baby is nine weeks old. Sit down and do the math," Morrissey said on the program Wednesday.
A judge sentenced Morrissey to 12 months in jail with six months suspended. He served three months at Henrico Jail East while on work release to practice law and serve in the General Assembly.
Morrissey also later faced forgery charges stemming from the case, but a Henrico judgedismissed those charges in April, saying the prior plea agreement included an immunity clause stating no future charges would be filed in connection to the case. The judge felt the clause was so broad the perjury charges would raise double jeopardy concerns.
Prosecutors must now decide how to proceed in the case. The judge urged them to bring the matter to an appeals court, as he felt the public has a right to a hearing.

Sunday, March 08, 2015

UNAPOLOGETIC: TN State Representative Sheila Butt's Racist Comments on Facebook

UNAPOLOGETIC

                                                    This is TN State Rep Sheila Butt
                                                     Look beyond the smile, people!


State Rep. Sheila Butt wrote a Facebook post in January that critics thought painted her as a racist, if taken at face value.
Any elected leader who believes this country needs an “NAAWP” deservedly would face scorn and ridicule. She never would be taken seriously again for the rest of her political career and likely have to go home in shame.
There’s just one problem. No one seems to hear what Butt is telling them.
The Republican from Columbia said she did not mean “National Association for the Advancement of White People,” as her critics charge. They thought she was playing off “National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,” or “NAACP.”
In January, Butt responded to a social media comment on Islamophobia by writing, “It is time for a Council on Christian Relations and an NAAWP in the Country.”
The Republican from Columbia, 63, said she meant “National Association for the Advancement of Western Principles,” and she really doesn’t care whether critics believe her or not.
“I know what I was writing,” Butt said as I spent a morning and afternoon with her at the State Capitol last week.”I am not going to apologize for something that I did not mean. It’s not going to happen.”
Butt describes herself as a Christian, conservative woman, in that order. The second-term legislator said she’s the most non-judgmental person you would ever meet. Furthermore, she said she does not rate people by race, creed or color. And she’s offended by anyone who thinks otherwise.
- See more at: http://columbiadailyherald.com/news/local-news/unapologetic#sthash.Jy43MYz5.dpuf




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Here's more racism from Ms. Butt:



My take:  As you and I can see, Right wing racism is in your face in 2015. This occur in less than one month after the racially and religious motivated killing of a Muslim family in Chapel Hill, N.C.  Islamophobia is at an all-time high.  Keep it up, conservatives!


Bonus reading:  The Chapel Hill Shooting- Abagond
                            The Rant(March 5, 2015)

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Connecticut Fraternity Gets Away With Calling Black Sorority Women Racist and Sexist Slurs

This article first came to my attention at Rawstory.com regarding harassment of Black sorority women at the University of Connecticut.  So much was covered on the race-and class baiting street harassment video that we don't pay attention to the real victims of street and university harassment. It's us Black women, Women of Color, ethnic White women, working/lower class women who bear the brunt of such harassment and it's not always men of Color, ethnic/working class White men.  It's the upper class men such as the frat boys pictured below.

Connecticut frat brothers get ‘no punishment’ for racial attack on ‘whores’ in ‘fat black b*tch’ sorority

How can those guys get away with such racist evil?  




“This is definitely not UConn’s finest hour”: Community Uproar Against Campus Racism




Christine Wilson (left) and Noel Cazenave (right) speak at the town meeting on campus racism hosted by the African American Cultural Center. (Photo by Ryan King/The Daily Campus)
Christine Wilson (left) and Noel Cazenave (right) speak at the town meeting on campus racism hosted by the African American Cultural Center and Asian American Cultural Center. (Photo by Ryan King/The Daily Campus)
“Privilege will ruin our reputation,” Brittney Yancy, a victim of harassment by members of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, said to a round of applause at a town hall meeting hosted by the African American Cultural Center last night. “And if it goes unchecked, this is how it impacts our community. It will determine who matters, who is protected, who gets access and who is worthy of justice on this campus.”
Audience members including student leaders and UConn alumni felt disrespected by responses from some of the panelists who were giving comments on community, civility and respect.
The forum was held in the Student Union at 6 p.m. on Monday and featured panelists UConn Police Chief Barbara O’Connor, Vice President of Student Affairs Christine Wilson, Dean of Students Eleanor Daugherty, Sociology Professor Noel Cazenave and Director of the Asian American Cultural Center Angela Rola.
The focus of the meeting was a confrontation which occurred on Sept. 29 between an African American sorority and a historically white fraternity.
Greek students belonging to the fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha verbally accosted members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) sorority after painting on a spirit rock, using racially-infused hate speech.
“We were called whores, and after establishing that I was a university professional I was verbally accosted, and intimidation tactics were used,” said AKA Graduate Advisor Brittney Yancy. “They called me a fat black bitch, not just a fat bitch but a fat black bitch.”
Although sanctions were administered against PIKE including the loss of rock painting privilege, individual members at the incident were not punished.
“I have to deal with the fact that the student who has verbally accosted me received no punishment,” Yancy said.
After Yancy made her remarks, Wilson talked about diversity and access and Daugherty expressed a shared commitment to make everyone on campus feel safe and heard.
UConn Political Science Professor Evelyn Simien addressed the panelists during question and answer: “We don’t want to hear about your job descriptions or the statistics,” she said.
Siemien asked that the panelists to “go off script and speak from your heart as a human being that’s not so invested in your administrative job description.”
One particularly thought-provoking question demonstrated the double standard which the incident raised.
“Had the perpetrators been black men and the sorority girls been white, wouldn’t the results have been different?” Simien asked.
O’Connor did not have an answer for this hypothetical situation.
Khalifa Miles, who was at the incident that night, said he felt disrespected by the chief’s response. “As a chief, you have the supreme command in running these police officers that serve this university, so how is it that you don’t have an answer?” he asked. “Do they have free reign to do whatever they want?…There has to be a protocol. There has to be some type of training put in place for these men to adhere to. I think it’s highly disrespectful for you to address these concerns with: I do not have an answer.”
One student said she doesn’t understand how the university can say that they promote safety when some students don’t feel safe.
“Things like this happen, and what I’m trying to say is that when things happen we try to talk to everyone,” Wilson said in response.
There was also debate over how the investigation was handled. Diondra Brown, president of AKA, said she was told by Wilson that the group filing the complaint could not appeal the decision made by Community Standards. At the town hall meeting, Wilson said that she learned the group could in fact file an appeal of the decision.
“Why is this information just now being communicated to us?” Brown asked.
Victims involved also found out at the panel that they could file individual complaints against members of Pike in addition to a complaint against the organization as a whole.
“I appreciate this conversation,” Yancy said. “But I think what is nauseating is the lack of transparency. It would have been great to know that someone needs to follow up on an individual complaint so we can take the appropriate actions.”
Yancy was visibly upset when this information was revealed to her during the town hall, prompted by a question from the audience.
“I silenced (the girls) that night when they were visibly upset. I said do not react. I told them to let me do all the talking because I’m sure my authority and the process is going to get this right,” Yancy remembered. “The lack of transparency about the appeal process is so disheartening.”
AKA plans to appeal the decision made by the university department of student affairs. Many members of AKA were not asked for their testimony during the event and many feel that the case was mishandled.
“It is almost inconceivable that the university has made no effort to investigate the women that were there that night,” said Cazenave.
Noticeably absent from the meeting was any member of PIKE or other non-African American sororities, which was seen as indicative of a lack of perspective and understanding shown by the groups.
“Why is it that none of the historically white sororities show their support for their fellow sororities? Is it because they don’t see them as women because they’re too busy seeing them as black, or is it instead that they align themselves with PIKE because they see themselves as being white,” Cazenave asked.
President Susan Herbst also came under fire for her lack of commitment in trying to promote a more inclusive environment.
“The Herbst administration has certainly not articulated any vision for diversity at UConn instead I’ve noticed that there has actually been a dismantling of the universities previously existing efforts to promote inclusiveness,” Cazenave said.
Herbst was also criticized for not being in attendance for the meeting.
“I remember a time when we had university professors that actually attended events like this,” said Cazenave.
In efforts to move forward, speakers addressed particular initiatives currently being made to promote a more inclusive campus environment.
“We try to hire and maintain a diverse faculty and staff,” said Wilson.
Stephanie Sponzo, a member of the student development committee of USG said “the lack of passion from the administration” was saddening, given the passion that the students affected brought to the town hall meeting.
In regards to what needs to be done about issues like these, panelist Cazenave said: “Change has to come from the top.”

Privileged White men can do whatever the heck they want without consequences.  The epitome of White privilege.

Black women who report harassment by nonblack men are called paranoid, playing the race card, and boys will be boys and we need to be silent. That's not right.  Let's call them out on their racist sexism.

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Womanist Musings: George Sodini: Misogynist and Racist

Womanist Musings: George Sodini: Misogynist and Racist



Past posting from Womanist Musings regarding George Sodini's misogynistic racism.  I see the similarities between yesterday's Santa Barbara shooter and Mr. Sodini.   Mr Sodini's right-wing racism and Eliot 

Rodger's.  This serves as proof that the war on women, working/middle class people, and people of Color are real and deadly!

According to Renee Martin:


White women and people of color are routinely referred to as angry and castrating and yet the violence of White men is always viewed as an anomaly.  Limbaugh recently referred to Obama as an angry Black man for daring initially to speak truth to power regarding the Gates incident, however the ways in which White men use hate speech and violence to maintain their undeserved privilege is never seen for what it truly is – fear and anger run amok.
Sodini may be only one man but his body represents much of the anger that White men are currently experiencing at the thought that power dynamics could possibly change.  Some may not go as far as to murder innocent people, however just as one would not turn your back on a wounded animal, so to is it dangerous to take the threat that they pose lightly.  This is not about how Sodini felt as man but specifically how he identified as a White man. 


Monday, March 17, 2014

Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell, RIP

First Black model, Ophelia DeVore


Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell, a former model, agent, charm-school director and newspaper publisher who almost single-handedly opened the modeling profession to African-Americans, and in so doing expanded public understanding of what American beauty looks like, died on Feb. 28 in Manhattan. She was 91.
Her death was announced on March 6 on the floor of the House of Representatives by Sanford D. Bishop Jr., Democrat of Georgia. At her death, Mrs. DeVore-Mitchell was the publisher emeritus ofThe Columbus Times, a black newspaper in Columbus, Ga., which she ran from the 1970s until her retirement about five years ago.
Long before the phrase “Black is beautiful” gained currency in the 1960s, Mrs. DeVore-Mitchell was preaching that ethos by example.
In New York in the 1940s — an age when modeling schools, and modeling jobs, were overwhelmingly closed to blacks — she helped start the Grace del Marco Modeling Agency and later founded the Ophelia DeVore School of Self-Development and Modeling. The enterprises, which served minorities, endured for six decades.

Ms. DeVore's modeling career have paved the way for Black and Women of Color supermodels, Donyale Luna, Naomi Sims, Beverly Johnson, Iman, Tyra Banks, Halle Berry, Grace Jones, etc.

Rest in peace, Ophelia!


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