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Jena 6 Tree
This blog is an open forum designed to continue the dialogue commenced on October 9th at the Doheny Undergraduate Student Town Hall Meeting titled "In(justice): The Jena 6 Story. Please maintain our agreement to be open and generous towards each other. This is a SAFE space for discussion. If you're a Mount STUDENT, please contribute!
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In 31 states, it is legal to fire someone because they are gay; and in 39 states it is legal to fire someone for being transgender.
As a woman striving for "personhood" (as discussed by Sr. Darlene), I am troubled by this notion that any citizen of the world be treated as less deserving or less capable; or that I be defined merely by my sexual orientation.
I adopt this social inequity as my own, just as I did the case of the Jena 6, for I will not consider myself achieved, or this country just, until every person is recognized and every difference is celebrated.
My undergraduate university, UCI, purposefully did not print its sexual harassment policy when I was a student there in the late 1980's and early 1990's. Moreover, the content of the curriculum was agressively misogynistic and the composition of the faculty was over-whelmingly white, upper-middle class males. If a female student lodged a complaint of sexual harassment, faculty would send her into "therapy" and do nothing to investigate, instead dragging their feet until she dropped out. Their policy was always to protect the "family man," even if he was a repeat offender. This is the history of public education in California.
I love the Mount because we have ethics and are woman friendly!
http://www.deltacollege.edu/org/deltawinds/DWOnline97/racismandsexisminads.html
This article just goes to show that sexism and racism are alive and thriving. It’s only typical that ads promote themselves, even going as far to show women in skimpy outfits. Advertisements like these in the article are offensive and (from experience) men just don’t get that. But in reality Advertisements are trying to get the individual to buy it product even going for younger audiences. As mentioned in the article, ads target young adults of all ethnicities showing racial and sexism ads and television shows on the MTV and BET network.
This kind of advertisement is disguising and big liquor companies use these broadcasting networks to endorse their products, uncaring of the slander they place on people.
These kinds of ads do promote stereotype. Women are seen as sexual objects, African Americans as singers and dancers, and teenagers from Orange Country as seen as blond haired, blue eyed airheads who angst over split ends and three-day lasting boyfriends. Young Americans are being exploited and someone needs to step in and change things. With the message these ads are promoting it’s no wonder sexual harassment and racial violence s is all around us.
This article really made me think about the message advertisements are giving out. The scary thing is these articles are aimed at young America. When I was in high school it seemed that more than half by graduating class was update on anything MTV and BET. They would act out sexual and racist act that they had seen on these networks, making is off as harmless fun, when the reality was they were being rude and racist to their fellow classmates making some people cry.
These students seemed to think that the stereotypes they witness on these networks were funny and true, making be believe that the media has a big hand in racial and sexist violence today.
I spent my 7th and 8th grade years (1991-92) being groped in school. My shop teacher became inapporpriate towards me. When I fought back against the boys I was told it wasn't "ladylike" to resort to physical violence and I was given detention. When I complained about the behaviors of the male students, I was told "boys will be boys".
No one has the right to touch my body without my permission.
http://thinkinggirl.wordpress.com/2007/03/08/blog-against-sexism-day-2007/
Sometimes I feel pushed down for being a woman because i think about the disadnatages we have. Reading this blog made me realize that woman have come a long way to give us the rights we have today. Sexism is a crime and it's needs to be stopped!
White supremacy group plans Jena rally on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
10/27/2007, 10:21 p.m. CDT
The Associated Press
JENA, la. (AP) - The Nationalist Movement, which describes itself as "pro-majority," will hold a rally in Jena, La., on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the group announced.
The organization issued a statement this week saying "Jena Justice Day to Empower the Majority" would be held on Jan. 21, 2008, the day set aside to celebrate the birthday of the slain American civil rights leader.
The statement said the Nationalist were "bringing their tools for empowerment to Louisiana to defeat the demands of Al Sharpton." The events planned include a two-mile parade, speeches, ceremonies and petitions "as a centerpiece to abolish King Day."
The announcement of the event follows a massive rally held in Jena on Sept. 20 in support of six black teenagers arrested in December 2006 and charged with attacking Justin Barker, a white classmate at Jena High School, and knocking him unconscious.
The case fueled allegations that District Attorney Reed Walters was treating blacks more harshly than whites, because his office didn't file charges against three white teens accused of hanging nooses in a tree on the high school's campus shortly before the attack on Barker.
The Nationalist Movement describes the event as `No to Jena 6, No to King.' There also will petition for abolition of the Civil Rights Bill and give a voice to the voiceless," the release stated.
The Rev. B.L. Moran, who has worked with the "Jena Six" families, said they wouldn't try to stop the event but may plan something around that time.
"Of course we can't stop them from marching," he said. "They can do whatever they want. It is bothersome, but everybody has their freedom to do whatever they want."
Moran said there are normally events planned in support of unity on that day - not division.
Jena Mayor Murphy McMillin said Friday that the town had received information about the January event but that no application for a permit had yet been made and no permit yet issued.
"Here in Jena, we are very careful to abide by the Constitution of the United States," he said. "So we will do the appropriate thing to keep with that document."
Permits were granted by the town for a the Sept. 20 rally, although that was the first of the pro-Jena Six rallies at the LaSalle Parish Courthouse where a permit was sought. There has been a policy in place in the town since 1992 asking for permit applications before any kind of demonstration.
Messages left Saturday on the answering machine of the Nationalist Movement headquarters in Learned, Miss., were not returned.
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Information from: Alexandria Daily Town Talk, http://www.thetowntalk.com
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-35/119353945169220.xml&storylist=louisiana
i completly agree with kcovert. Every person has human rights, and deserve to be treated with respect just for being a human being. One's sexual prefernce or orientation has nothing to do with the goal's that they can acheieve, or the work that they can accomplish. We as the community will not be able to move toward unity until, we can understand that we are all unique, and made differntly. But most imporantly we are all made in the image of Christ, therefore we ought to have an unconditional love for our brothers, and sisters in Christ.
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I feel that we are not to ones to judge or decide what good or bad. we should never make people feel less because we are not perfect as well.
I believe that these 6 black males have been treated brutally and unfair. We should stand up for them and speak to the entire world about it. If not, then what was the point of having Martin Luther King Jr. stand up for all color of people to be together.
I believe that no one is perfect and we are no one to decide what is good or bad.We all make mistakes color in no restriction.
I agree with Tiff that no one should touch my body if you don't want to. My body is mine and no one should have the right to touch me in any way that feels uncomfortable to me. If someone was to touch my body and no one believed me, I would have stand up and fought for my rights no matter how.
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