Showing posts with label african american women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label african american women. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

My Love And My Loss by Dee Sumpter

My Love and My Loss

"My Love And My Loss" by Dee Sumpter

My love and my loss - handling the murder of a daughter - Column Essence, Jan, 1996 by Dee Sumpter

My daughter, Shawna, was taken from me by violence. I always dreamed that I would watch her grow up, get married, have children of her own and make fun of my graying hair. Instead I buried her just two months after her twentieth birthday.

When I arrived home after work on February 19, 1993, I didn't think much of the fact that Shawna's car wasn't there. I told myself she just wasn't home yet. I was making dinner when her boyfriend called. He was concerned, but I reassured him that she was probably with her godson. She adored that baby. But then her godson's mother called and asked us if we had seen her because she hadn't picked up the baby yet.

I knew immediately that something was wrong, and my heart flew into my throat. Shawna was very responsible, and this was completely out of character. I began to pray, but I tried not to panic. I was sure that any minute she would pull into the driveway.

Then I went to her room and saw her coat in the closet and her purse on the bed. Why was she out in the freezing cold without her coat? Where would she go without her purse? Now I was frightened. I called Daryl back and asked him to come over so that we could try to figure out where Shawna could be. Were we forgetting something? Did she have a meeting or class to attend that evening? Everything kept coming up blank. We decided to call the police.

I had beard that a person had to be missing for 24 hours before the police would take a report. But when I called, they took my information without protest. That cheered me up a bit. Still, I kept hoping to hear the sound of her car chugging into the driveway. Suddenly Daryl screamed and ran into the living room. He told me to call the police. Shawna was in the bathtub. She had been strangled.

The following months were like a nightmare. Each day was more of a struggle than the last. just to get up and leave the house was almost too much. It seemed that everywhere I looked - on the television or in the newspapers - there were other mothers who were suffering the loss of their children.

I had to do something. But what? Nothing would bring back my child. Maybe if mothers suffering this very special grief came together we could ease our pain. We could act as support to one another. Why not make a place where we could talk about our children and work toward recovery and healing in our own lives and in those of our other children and loved ones?

I founded Mothers of Murdered Offspring (M.O.M.-O.) for that purpose. Although our name begins with the word Mothers, we welcome anyone who has suffered a loss. We want to heal not only our own families but also those around us.

My heart still aches when I think of Shawna. The numbness has worn off. I wake up with my pain, and I lie don with it. My mind plays tricks on me, and I sometimes hear Shawna's laugh. I glimpse her in the mirror, trying a new hairstyle or testing my lipsticks. When those memories come, all I can do is pray.

I realize how blessed I was to have her as long as I did. Remembering those years sustains me now. Shawna was a shy beautiful and loving young woman. Her smile lit up a room. She and I were friends and confidantes. We giggled over silly things and talked each other through hard choices. We had our mothers-daughter disputes, but she respected my opinion.

My work with M.O.M.-O. has given me hope. Every, child has a right to a future. When I speak at schools and around the city and across the country, I know only one thing can stem the flow of violence in our communities: It is love. And love is only truly, love when you give it away. Shawna would be so happy to know that I love her enough to keep living.

Dee Sumpter is the mother of three other children and the founder of M.O.M.-O. in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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

Friday, October 09, 2015

Raven-Symoné: I Wouldn't Hire Any Black Sounding Names!

Raven-Symoné is a certified nut job. She says that if she wouldn't hire any Black sounding names. Yet, her name is!

The View co-host is a very eccentric woman. The entertainer gave up the squeaky clean Cosby, Disney kid image and came out a raging lesbian and celebrity agitator. She's a kush rolling, Marlboro Light smoking, multi-hair dying, nutjob who fell off the wagon.

Since the Cheetah Girls broke up, Raven went wild. She had a secret pregnancy. She got involved with bisexual model/actress AzMarie Livingston and running her mouth like she's a genius of Black culture.

Raven-Symoné Pearlman joined The View in Spring 2015 along with Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Bahar, ABC's Paula Faris, comedian Michelle Collins, actress/activist Candace Cameron-Bure (of Full House fame).

The ladies debate the latest "HOT TOPICS" and often get a controversial theme going.

Today on Friday's episode of The View, Raven-Symoné does something that's not so Raven.

She pops off about the know-hows to an earning a career. She claims that having "Black names" won't get you hired.

On a segment titled "Are You Judged By Your Name?" the former Cheetah Girl, donning a fire engine-red mohawk, said she wouldn't hire anyone with a "black" sounding name.

“Can we take back 'racist' and say 'discriminatory,' because I think thats a better word,"  she said while laughing. "And I’m very discriminatory against the words like the ones they were saying in those names. I’m not going to hire you if your name is Watermelondrea. That’s just not going to happen. I’m not going to hire you.”

Cue the irony.....What's her name?

I bet you money, that if she wasn't a somewhat successful entertainer, I bet you she wouldn't get a job because she has a "BLACK" sounding name.

I miss them days when she played a "bubblehead" on television and not one in real life.





Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Marie Holmes: I Gotta Be Humble, My Kids Are The Winners!

Holmes said she originally bought five tickets for a total $15 before the lottery was announced. She later bought five more in homes of winning the jackpot
The winner of Powerball comes forward. She shows her ticket to the junk food media. Notice that most lottery experts believe that "quick picks" are the way to winning. The winning numbers are located on line D.

The record Powerball jackpot winner steps forwards to claim her share. She is actually putting her face out there to explain her struggles and the miracle of being a single mom and now a jackpot winner.

Marie Holmes of North Carolina was one of the three winners who claims the $567 million jackpot.

The 26 year old mother of four came forth to explain why she wanted to go public.

She along with winners from Texas and the autonomous territory of Puerto Rico share this. With taxes each would walk away with an estimated $130 million.

She had an opportunity to talk to the junk food media about the day she purchased that winning ticket.

Life is good for Marie Holmes.
If you look slightly towards the ticket. The lottery commissions will tell ya that "machine pick" tickets are the ones that you could find the jackpots in. Of course, you're playing against 176 million others who are willing to shelve up to $300 to play a $2 unit of Powerball or $1 unit of Mega Millions.

The Shallotte woman vows to not let the winnings "change her". She said that she will devote some of her earnings to a local church and give her family a vacation.

The Daily Mail reports that Marie used to work at McDonald's and Walmart before quitting to take care of her children.

Her four children, Brayden, Charisma, Andrea and Ebony, are aged from nine months to seven years old. Brayden is believed to suffer from cerebral palsy.

Holmes sacrificed her education to care for her four children and took minimum wage jobs to provide for her family.

With little or no help from the fathers of her four young children, she has struggled financially for most of her adult life.

Holmes has also seen her own father repeatedly jailed and her favorite cousin shot and left paralyzed after a home invasion.

Family members describe Holmes as a loving mother who always put her children first.

"Marie is very grounded and she will know what to do with all that money," said her uncle William Bryant.
Be careful, the Have-Nots will come.
"I'm sure she will want to buy a new home for herself and her kids, but I can't see any extravagant purchases. She's a nice girl who loves her family and loves her church."

In 2012, state officials who run Powerball and Mega Millions changed ticket prices and lowered the odds of winning jackpots in hopes the moves would increase the number of huge prizes and draw more players.

The new rules worked, causing jackpots to repeatedly climb to record levels. More than half of the top 10 U.S. jackpots have been reached in the past couple of years.

Be careful what you play. You are responsible for whatever unit comes out! Be clear in explaining what type of unit you requesting.

Powerball and Mega Millions are tickets that can not be canceled. You are responsible for whatever unit comes out. Your state lottery commission and the licensed retailer are not responsible for lost, stolen, damaged or altered tickets.

You have to be at least 18 years old to play these games.

Best advice for all who win the lottery, is keep a cool head.

The first thing you do is write your name down on the back of the winning ticket. Say if you lose the jackpot ticket! If you have forgotten to sign the ticket and it gets lost, then it's your word against the winner's.

Second, make sure you cancel out your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or any other social networking website your on. That's the next thing that happens when you're a winner.

Third, you cancel your phone numbers and limit your email intake. Obviously you'll be swamped with phone numbers and well wishers asking if you're willing to shelve out a little cash. Trial lawyers, charity groups, the junk food media and scammers will take advantage of you. Some charity groups will not often bother you, but there are some that pose as legitimate but in reality a scam.

Fourth, hire a qualified lottery attorney. Make sure you have a qualified attorney who specializes in handling large sums of money. Don't assume every attorney is well respected in handling your financial earnings.

Fifth, don't quit a job until you are sure you've won the lottery. Don't rush to judgment about being a lottery winner. Sometimes a person who wins the lottery never expects it to happen so don't sit around the house hoping the day will come you'll be the millionaire. Don't burn bridges with your job. You may end up back at it if you decide to go back into the workforce.

Sixth, pay off debts to college loans, house, billings, and credit cards. Don't let these issues ruin your credit score or chances at buying better things. Do not share earnings with people who owe you money.

Seventh, invest your money in a trust fund if you have children or family members you can trust if you should die. Make a will or entrust. Make sure you know that you have a family member or a trusted friend who will take care of the winnings once you pass away.

Eighth, have fun with your earnings. Don't blow it on things that obviously will attract negative attention. Yeah, this is a gateway to putting in other venues. Some may blow their money at casinos, horsetracks, fantasy football and online poker. Granted that you are given the right to do whatever you want with your earnings, but seriously are going to get a gold stature of your image? Are willing to have five chefs, a butler, housekeeper, nanny, and chauffeur on the payroll? You going to buy a $100,000 vehicle! You want to own an island! Do you want your "friends" who often borrow money from you to handle your earnings?

Ninth, be humble. Cause money will change a person when they're rich. Don't expect your live to be "normal" when you win the lottery. Cause it's not going to be normal. It could a great experience or the worst thing.

Lastly, The Have-Nots Will Always Try To Make You Feel Guilty About Winning. Ignore Them And Be Happy About Your Success.

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Tamar Braxton And Tamara Mowry Host The Real!

The Real featuring Tamar Braxton, Tamara Mowry-Housley, Loni Love, Jeannie Mai and Adrienne Bailon will be a competitor to The View and The Talk.

Looks like another women's forum on the most controversial topics will appear on many syndication stations across the nation.

Tamara Mowry-Housley, Tamar Braxton,  Loni Love, Jeannie Mai and Adrienne Bailon are looking forward to flex their muscle on women's talk. They will compete with The View and The Talk.

The Real is sponsored by Warner Bros and Telepictures and it will be on CW and Fox syndication stations.

It will debut this Summer and be in the major markets. Before you will see an actual Fall season, it will make it through a "test run" and hope to score big like Wendy Williams and Bethanny Frankel.

This is their premiere episode and it features Game as one of their guest.

Sunday, May 04, 2014

Bill O'Reilly and Russell Simmons Clash over a Beyoncé Video





Come on people, Bill O'Reilly doesn't really care for Black girls.  
He just using Sistas to score racist right-wing ideological points.


Bill O'Reilly and Russell Simmons Clash over a Beyoncé Video


In the music video for the Beyoncé song "Partition," there's some incredibly raunchy imagery, including car sex and a lyric reference to Monica Lewinsky. Bill O'Reilly was fired up about this Monday night, confronting hip hop mogul Russell Simmons over what kind of message that sends to young black girls when such behavior is glorified by one of their idols.

O'Reilly said the video "glorifies having sex in the back of a limousine," and wondered "why on earth would this woman do that" when unplanned pregnancy is a problem in the black community. Simmons didn't defend Beyoncé specifically, but spoke up in support of artists reflecting the reality people live in.

O'Reilly insisted that Beyoncé has "an obligation to protect children" and not to put out "exploitive garbage." He called the video "inexplicable" and was utterly bemused when Simmons said that the music video is, in fact, a work of art.



Saturday, April 26, 2014

A BLACK WOMEN SPEAKS... OF WHITE WOMANHOOD OF WHITE SUPREMACY OF PEACE A poem by BEULAH RICHARDSON

A BLACK WOMEN SPEAKS... OF WHITE WOMANHOOD OF WHITE SUPREMACY OF PEACE A poem by BEULAH RICHARDSON 

Read by Beulah Richardson at the Women's Workshop at the American People's Peace Congress held in Chicago on June 29, 30 and July 1, 1951 bringing a standing ovation from all 500 women attending.


It is right that I a woman black, should speak of white womanhood. my fathers my brothers my husbands my sons die for it: because of it. and their blood chilled in electric chairs, stopped by hangman’s noose, cooked by lynch mobs’ fire, spilled by white supremacist mad desire to kill give me that right

I would that I could speak of white womanhood

as it will and should be

when it stands tall in full equality.

but then, womanhood will be womanhood.


Void of color and of class, And all necessity for my speaking thus will be past. Gladly past. But now, since ‘tis deemed a thing apart Supreme, I must in searching honesty report How it seems to me. White womanhood stands in bloodied skirt and willing slavery reaching out adulterous hand killing mine and crushing me. What then is the superior thing That in order to be sustained must needs feed upon my flesh?

 Let’s look to history. They said, the white supremacist said that you were better than me, that your fair brow would never know the sweat of slavery. They lied White womanhood to is enslaved, The difference is degree. They brought me here in chains. They brought you here willing slaves to man. You, shiploads of women each filled with hope That she might win with ruby lip and saucy curl And bright and flashing eyes Him to wife who had the largest tender. Remember? And they sold you here even as they sold me.

My sisters, there is no room for mockery. If they counted my teeth They did appraise your thigh And sold you to the highest bidder The same as I. And you did not fight for your right to choose Whom you would wed But for whatever bartered price That was the legal tender You were sold to a stranger’s bed In a stranger land Remember? And you did not fight. Mind you, I speak not mockingly But I fought for freedom, I’m fighting now for our unity. We are women all. And what wrongs you murders me And eventually marks your grave So we share a mutual death at the hand of tyranny. They trapped me with the chain and gun. They trapped you with lying tongue.

For, ‘less you see that fault— That male villainy That robbed you of name, voice and authority, That murderous greed that wasted you and me, He, the white supremacist, fixed your minds with poisonous thought: “white skin is supreme.” And there with bought that monstrous change exiling you to things. Changed all that nature had in you wrought of gentle usefulness, abolishing your spring.

Tore out your heart, set your good apart from all that you could say, think, feel, know to be right. And you did not fight, but set your minds fast on my slavery the better to endure your own. 'Tis true my pearls were beads of sweat wrung from weary bodies' pain, instead of rings upon my hands I wore swollen, bursting veins. My ornaments were the wipe-lash's scar my diamond, perhaps, a tear. Instead of paint and powder on my face I wore a solid mask of fear to see my blood so spilled. And you, women seeing spoke no protest but cuddled down in your pink slavery and thought somehow my wasted blood confirmed your superiority.

Because your necklace was of gold you did not notice that it throttled speech. Because diamond rings bedecked your hands you did not regret their dictated idleness. Nor could you see that the platinum bracelets which graced your wrists were chains binding you fast to economic slavery And though you claimed your husband's name still could not command his fidelity. You bore him sons. I bore him sons. No, not willingly. He purchase you. He raped me, I fought! But you fought neither for yourselves nor me. Sat trapped in your superiority and spoke no reproach. Consoled your outrage with an added diamond brooch. Oh, God, how great is a woman's fear who for a stone, a cold, cold stone would not defend honor, love or dignity!

Your bore the damning mockery of your marriage and heaped your hate on me, a woman too, a slave more so. And when your husband disowned his seed that was my son and sold him apart from me you felt avenged. Understand: I was not your enemy in this, I was not the source of your distress. I was your friend, I fought. But you would not help me fight thinking you helped only me. Your deceived eyes seeing only my slavery aided your own decay. Yes, they condemned me to death and they condemned you to decay. Your heart whisked away, consumed in hate, used up in idleness playing yet the lady's part estranged to vanity. It is justice to you to say your fear equaled your tyranny. You were afraid to nurse your young lest fallen breast offend your master's sight and he should flee to firmer loveliness. And so you passed them, your children, on to me. Flesh that was your flesh and blood that was your blood drank the sustenance of life from me. And as I gave suckle I knew I nursed my own child's enemy.

 I could have lied, told you your child was fed till it was dead of hunger. But I could not find the heart to kill orphaned innocence. For as it fed, it smiled and burped and gurgled with content and as for color knew no difference. Yes, in that first while I kept your sons and daughters alive. But when they grew strong in blood and bone that was of my milk you taught them to hate me. PUt your decay in their hearts and upon their lips so that strength that was of myself turned and spat upon me, despoiled my daughters, and killed my sons. You know I speak true.

Though this is not true for all of you When I bestirred myself for freedom and brave Harriet led the way some of you found heart and played a part in aiding my escape. And when I made my big push for freedom your sons fought at my sons' side. Your husbands and brothers too fell in that battle when Crispus Attucks died. It's unfortunate that you acted not in the way of justice but to preserve the Union and for dear sweet pity's sake; Else how came it to be with me as it is today? You abhorred slavery yet loathed equality.

I would that the poor among you could have seen through the scheme and joined hands with me. Then, we being the majority, could long ago have recued our wasted lives. But no. The rich, becoming richer, could be content while yet the poor had only the pretense of superiority and sought through murderous brutality to convince themselves that what was false was true.

 So with KKK and fiery cross and bloodied appetites set about to prove that "white is right" forgetting their poverty. Thus the white supremacist used your skins to perpetuate slavery. And woe to me. Woe to Willie McGee. Woe to the seven men of Martinsville. And woe to you. It was no mistake that your naked body on an Esquire calendar announced the date, May Eighth. This is your fate if you do not wake to fight. They will use your naked bodies to sell their wares though it be hate, Coca Cola or rape. When a white mother disdained to teach her children this doctrine of hate, but taught them instead of peace and respect for all men's dignity the courts of law did legislate that they be taken from her and sent to another state. To make a

Troy Hawkins of the little girl and a killer of the little boy! No, it was not for the womanhood of this mother that Willie McBee died but for the depraved, enslaved, adulterous woman whose lustful demands denied, lied and killed what she could not possess. Only three months before another such woman lied and seven black men shuddered and gave up their lives. These women were upheld in these bloody deeds by the president of this nation, thus putting the official seal on the fate of white womanhood with in these United States. This is what they plan for you. This is the depravity they would reduce you to.

 Death for me and worse than death for you. What will you do? Will you fight with me? White supremacy is your enemy and mine. So be careful when you talk with me. Remind me not of my slavery, I know it will but rather tell me of your own. Remember, you have never known me. You've been busy seeing me as white supremacist would have me be, and I will be myself. Free! My aim is full equality. I would usurp their plan! Justice peace and plenty for every man, woman and child who walks the earth. This is my fight! If you will fight with me then take my hand and the hand of Rosa Ingram, and Rosalee McGee, and as we set about our plan let our Wholehearted fight be: PEACE IN A WORLD WHERE THERE IS EQUALITY.

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!


Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Why I Cannot Say That Hemings-Jefferson Relationship is Romantic

Why I Cannot Say That Hemings-Jefferson Relationship is Romantic(Updated)

I cannot in the whole world say that the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings is one of romance. I'm sorry I'm not buying into mainstream media and pundits history revision. These were the same people who venomously deny that Jefferson coerced and abuse Sally Hemings, let alone an involuntary relationship. There are still many who totally deny the Hemings-Jefferson relationship to this day. Don't these people see before their eyes the many complexions Black Americans are today? They are not the products of recent couplings, but of coerced and abusive relationships between Black women and White men during slavery, segregation, and Jim and Jane Crow. My friendly blogger Ann said in her commentary:

"Until the day comes when an enslaved woman can have a say-so over her body, the children that come from her body, and how and when she can decide herself what she will or will not be able to do with her body, the word mistress will never be used by me in the same sentences with the words slave and master, regardless as to whether it is Thomas Jefferson or any other white slave master."

Not only Black women suffer the indignity of abuse, rape, and sexual exploitation by all men, but they were routinely deny respect and equal protection under the law(read At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle McGuire).  Antimiscegenation laws were a proof of such indignity. Refusing to be called by their last names is showing disrespect. 

While mainstream media and society are very obsessed over the presidency of President Obama, society doesn't want people to discuss about the other racial mixing that is both very coercive and exploitative. Barack Obama is a product of consensual interracial relationship and marriage, that of a Black man and a white woman. America is more sympathetic and comfortable with that combination although they show contempt toward that combination.  Read Richard Cohen's racist article regarding the DeBlasio family this past November. Then again, they don't pose a threat to the structure of American white supremacy because the white woman who marry black men takes his status.

It's time to talk about this shameful, sordid history instead of sweeping it under the ground as usual.

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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Shawn James, Black Freelance Writer: Critical Thinking About Tamera Mowry-Housely’s EXTRA EXTRA SALTY TEARS

Mr. Housely should have protect his wife and child from racist insults. 


Shawn James, Black Freelance Writer: Critical Thinking About Tamera Mowry-Housely’s EXTRA EXTRA SALTY TEARS

A very insightful commentary on the cyber harassment of Tamera Mowry-Housely's interracial relationship.  Mr. James criticized the scapegoating of Black men by the mainstream media when it comes to racism in interracial relationships.  It's mainstream America that still have a problem with those relationships and they project their hatred of such relationships onto Black men and women.

And another thing, where's her husband when those incidents happened? He didn't defend her against those trolls who didn't like their being together. Those trolls weren't Black. They are more than likely nonblack people disguising themselves as Blacks to vent out their racist bs on message boards and social networks.

Here's another perspective on the Tamera Mowry-Housely's situation by Ed of Dream and Hustle:

http://dreamandhustle.com/2014/01/ok-lets-call-out-whats-really-going-with-tamera-mowery-tearful-interview-on-own-about-her-interracial-marriage/

Tuesday, June 04, 2013

OMG! Son of a Prominent Republican Politician(John McCain) Married an African American Woman


John McCain's son married Capt. Renee Jessica Smith over the weekend.  Guess who attended their wedding?  It's none other than the perennial loser, Mitt Romney!  It's karma!  Scions of Republican/Right-wingers are getting stabbed in the back!  Their racist/classist/sexist ideologies are being exposed for what they are, disgusting pieces of propaganda.  I wonder if their white nationalist/supremacist/HBD friends of theirs think of their family members marrying Blacks and Browns, therefore contributing to the browning/tanning of America.

Already, racist right wingers at number 1 and number 2 are working up a storm over this one.

Here's the rest of the story of the wedding at:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/sen-john-mccain-son-marries-san-francisco-article-1.1361776

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Kermit Gosnell Will Be Heading To The Iron College!

The controversial late term abortion doctor is going to the iron college for the death of premature babies.

Expect a right wing email to spring forth with the mention of convicted abortion doctor being the reason for why President Barack Obama exists.

The verdict was released and the controversial late-term abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell is found guilty of murder. The controversy driven into the mainstream by the ever so annoying conservative agitators claiming that a "media blackout" was instigated during courtroom hearings.

Newsflash: The last thing that the junk food media reporting on was the Boston Marathon Bombings and the release of three women held captive in a man home in Cleveland.

So what does a culture war issue such as abortion have to do with some news of tragedy?

Ever so, says conservatives!

Conservatives claim that the junk food media buried this. They believe that if the story was covered, the junk food media would take a consideration into abortion doctors and Planned Parenthood, an advocate and family assistance organization.

Today, the verdict was read to the news media. Gosnell was found guilty of three counts of first degree murder. These charges carry the death penalty. The decision was read and the junk food media was barred from being inside the courtroom.

What was described as a "house of horrors" by former workers, Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Philadelphia clinic was a bio-hazard. The doctor would gradually kill 37 week premature baby with no shame. The doctor would collect jars to hold the fetuses. One family claims that his treatment of low income women would result in painful memories. Even one of his pregnant patients died because of his reckless behavior.

In the age of President Barack Obama, the doctor Gosnell is going to be raked through the coals. The junk food media caters to conservative rancor from the likes of King Hippo and the Guy Who Throws Shit on The Wall. Despite there chatter, the nation is moving forward. If this last election meant something, I can tell you that it's likely going to be more defeats for the opponents of change.

This controversy has become a rally cry for both parties. The anti-abortion activists have the case to say that these doctors are killing babies. The abortion activists also have a case. They're saying that if there wasn't so many restrictions by Republican legislators and preventive healthcare, then you wouldn't see women go to this monster.

The New York Times reports Kermit Gosnell, 72, operated a clinic in West Philadelphia catering to poor women that prosecutors called a “house of horrors.”

The case turned on whether the late-term pregnancies Dr. Gosnell terminated resulted in live births. His lawyer, Jack McMahon, argued that because Dr. Gosnell injected a drug in utero to stop the heart, the deliveries were stillbirths, and movements that witnesses testified to observing — a jerked arm, a cry, swimming motions — were mere spasms.

But after deliberating 10 days, the jury found Dr. Gosnell guilty in the deaths of victims known as Baby A, Baby C and Baby D. He was found not guilty of murdering Baby E.

Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty when the trial moves into the sentencing phase next Tuesday.

While abortion rights groups argued that Dr. Gosnell operated far outside the legalities and norms of women’s health care, abortion opponents seized on the case to raise questions about the ethics of late-term abortions. Put simply, they asked why a procedure done to a living baby outside the womb is murder, but destroying a fetus of similar gestation before delivery can be legal.

“What we need to learn from the Gosnell case is that late-term abortion is infanticide,” the Daily Beast columnist Kirsten Powers wrote last week, after starting an online furor earlier with a column suggesting that the news media had ignored the case for ideological reasons.

Abortion rights supporters said it was opponents who politicized the trial. What abortion opponents really sought from the trial, they said, was an acceleration of restrictions at the state level to effectively end legal abortion.

“Justice was served to Kermit Gosnell today and he will pay the price for the atrocities he committed,” Ilyse Hogue, president of Naral Pro-Choice America, said in a statement. “Anti-choice politicians, and their unrelenting efforts to deny women access to safe and legal abortion care, will only drive more women to back-alley butchers like Kermit Gosnell.”

In recent weeks, the case was cited in Congress to support restricting abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy, and it was invoked by an anti-abortion political action committee in radio ads to attack the Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe.

Although the trial has not brought new issues or tactics to America’s long-running abortion wars, it provided an emotional jolt through five weeks of graphic testimony and an earlier grand jury report.

“This is a visual argument that no one would ever want to have,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, which works to elect women opposed to abortion. “But if we’re going to have it, let’s go ahead and have it. What are the limits? What are we as a society willing to forbear?”

She and others predicted greater support for laws banning abortions past 20 weeks, which have been adopted in several states in recent years, on the disputed theory that fetuses of that age feel pain. Dr. Gosnell was found guilty of 24 counts of performing an abortion beyond 24 weeks, the limit in Pennsylvania.
Racist right wing emails claim the media ignored this!
Opponents of the restrictions argue that later abortions are very rare: fewer than 1.3 percent are past 20 weeks of gestation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Abortion rights activists say restrictions before fetal viability, generally 24 weeks, violate the constitutional protections of Roe v. Wade.

Nonetheless, “the imagery” of later abortion “is very powerful,” said Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager for the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion access. “In 2010 Nebraska banned abortion at 20 weeks post-fertilization,” she said. “That bill was seen as the type of bill that was going to catch fire across the country. It did.”

Dr. Gosnell was also convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 41-year-old patient, Karnamaya Mongar, who died of an overdose of sedatives. Among lesser charges, he was found guilty of 211 counts of not waiting 24 hours after consulting with a patient before performing an abortion.

Activists on both sides debated whether the deplorable conditions at Dr. Gosnell’s clinic — including broken equipment, bloodstained recovery chairs and an untrained staff giving anesthesia and other drugs — could be found at other clinics.

Anti-abortion groups cited the case to press for more regulations of clinics. “By pulling back the secrecy that cloaks this industry that preys on women’s misery, we have a real agenda moving forward,” said Charmaine Yoest, the president of Americans United for Life, which pushes for stricter clinic rules.

But abortion rights groups attacked the regulations as a backdoor route to shut clinics by requiring costly but medically unneeded upgrades, like wider hallways and bigger closets.

“What’s going on with these laws is really about the agenda of having abortion eventually made illegal again,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights in Washington, which has challenged the laws in court. “And if that were to happen, unfortunately you’d have a lot more Gosnells out there.”
The junk food media wasted no time trying to question the president on Kermit Gosnell. The conservative agitators are already comparing the president to the convicted doctor.
The scathing grand jury report in 2011 on Dr. Gosnell’s clinic, the Women’s Medical Society, on Lancaster Avenue, detailed how despite complaints and malpractice suits, no inspector had visited in 16 years. The clinic was raided only after a tip that it operated as an illegal prescription mill. A month after the report, Gov. Tom Corbett fired six employees of the Health and State departments.

In the witness box, clinic employees said live births occurred regularly, and they believed Dr. Gosnell’s explanation for snipping necks with surgical scissors — to “ensure fetal demise” — was accepted practice in late-term abortions. An abortion doctor who testified for the prosecution said such practice was unheard of.

One witness, Steven Massof, testifying under a plea agreement to avoid first-degree murder charges, instructed jurors to feel the backs of their own necks and said, “It’s like a beheading.”

Another former employee, Adrienne Moton, sobbed as she described the death of Baby A, aborted when his teenage mother was about 29 weeks pregnant. Ms. Moton was so upset she took a cellphone photograph of him, which was shown in court. She said Dr. Gosnell had joked that the baby was big enough to walk to a bus stop.

Ms. Moton, who also testified under a plea agreement, said she cut the neck of Baby D, who was delivered into a toilet while its mother, given a large dose of a drug to dilate the cervix, waited for Dr. Gosnell to arrive.

Another clinic worker said she followed Dr. Gosnell’s instructions and cut the neck of Baby C after it moved an arm. The doctor told her was an “involuntary movement.”

Dr. Gosnell was originally charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, but Judge Jeffrey P. Minehart of Common Pleas Court earlier threw out three other cases of infants said to have been born alive, known as Baby B, Baby F and Baby G.

Several weeks into the trial, which began March 18, anti-abortion activists and some conservative commentators accused the national news media of skipping it, a charge amplified across social media.

On April 15, President Obama’s spokesman was asked if he was following the trial. “The president is aware” of the case, said Jay Carney, the White House spokesman.

Even as reporters from national newspapers arrived in Courtroom 304 of the Criminal Justice Center, a blog war continued between abortion-rights supporters, who had written of Dr. Gosnell’s abuses from the time of his indictment, and conservatives, who continued to fault broadcast television for a “blackout.”

On Monday, there were 29 reporters in the courtroom and a row of television crews on the sidewalk.

Jon Hurdle reported from Philadelphia, and Trip Gabriel from New York.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Barack Obama Returns Fire!

The second debate was feisty at best.

President Barack Obama trailing in some polls needed to regain his ground. This debate being moderated by Candy Crowley of CNN has went off with hitches and a whole lot of overtalking one another.

Former Massachusetts governor, perennial candidate for president Mitt Romney is the Republican nominee. He was looking for the strength to continue. He did get in a few hits but it was the president who came with a stronger delivery.

As the debate concludes, liberals are spirited, conservatives are expressing anger. Some conservatives lay the blame on Candy Crowley for giving the president a few extra minutes of debate time and slapping Romney down for interrupting and agitating her. Crowley visibly got annoyed with the candidates when she asked them to conclude their statements so other questions could be asked. Also another exchange was the Libyan attacks in which Romney repeated the criticism of how the president addressed the attacks. The president on September 12, 2012 acknowledge this was an act of terror. Romney put more pressure on him, and Crowley told him that the president did acknowledge it.

The most talked about thing was Mitt Romney saying as governor he couldn't find qualified women so he goes to women groups and was given binders full of qualified women. That comment is another Big Bird gaffe. That's going to be another play at the most crucial swing voter: WOMEN.

President Barack Obama is tied with Mitt Romney with women. The president dismisses this assessment.

The president laid his best attacks on Mitt Romney over his 47% comments.

Both candidates forgot infrastructure, global warming, tone of rhetoric, Europe, and future of space exploration.

Here's the video of the two debating.



Wednesday, August 29, 2012

GOP Attendee: That's How We Feed The Animals!


The anti-Obama Convention already drawn controversy with one of their attendees harassing a Black camerawoman.
The Republican Anti-Obama National Convention is underway. The delegates gather together to make Mitt Romney their nominee and leader of the party. During yesterday's festivities, you've heard the president's name dropped more than their nominee. The speakers couldn't find anything inspiring about their nominee. Even wife, Ann tried to paint a millionaire like her husband Mitt as a "regular guy".

Rick Santorum, famously said that he doesn't want his money to make "blah" people's lives better went onstage trying to paint the president as aloof and determined to destroy the fundamental Christian values that makes the Republican Party whole. Yet, nothing about his former rival.

Artur Davis, a former Democratic congressman went forth with the most harshest attack on the president. He made the case that his former party has spent all their time attacking Romney. But yet what is Davis doing?

Current TV the home of liberal agitators Stephanie Miller, David Schuster, Bill Press, Eliot Spitzer and Jennifer Granholm.

David Schuster tweeted:


    
David Shuster

GOP attendee ejected for throwing nuts at African American CNN camera woman + saying "This is how we feed animals."   

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