Three disparate topics, but with a hidden thread connecting them (can you guess what it is?)
Three alpacas in the snow
After days of near silence, I’m suddenly possessed of a need to talk about not one, not two, but three things. I’m also possessed of a head cold and a serious case of ear pain, so this is gonna be quick and dirty. It’s up to you intrepid readers to figure out the Overarching Theme.
First: Noticing the degree to which everyone is still fucked
A comment by me in the thread dangling from this post:
JeanLouise says:
HeroesGetMade, I think that Obama gained power for some blacks, albeit, through chicanery. It will be some time before we know how the rage of the women and working class whites that he attacked and cheated will affect society.Hmmm. That sounds like Obama elevated African-Americans (or some subset of African-Americans) at the expense of other groups, but I don’t agree. Obama hasn’t elevated anyone, because there is no substance to his message, no reality to his promise. He’s playing on cultural narratives, not actually giving anyone (or any group) power that they didn’t have before.
American society has a cultural narrative about civil rights and black empowerment, so Obama was happy to play on that theme. But read the Black Agenda Report to be disabused of any notion you may have that his policies spell any kind of advantage for African-Americans.
There is no cultural narrative celebrating women’s rights, but there IS a whole lot of snide sexism, so Obama exploited that theme too.
Obama just wanted to be president. There is no other content to his program. He and his candidacy and his triumph are completely the creations of the media. He’s a TV president.
In the meantime, in the background, power in America hasn’t changed: rich white men run everything.
What I said. Goddamn, I totally agree with myself.
Second: Wondering aloud why the economic recovery is for men only
Go read this excellente post by Sheryl Robinson over at The New Agenda: Obama should appoint a woman to Commerce, because jobs for women are not a given. Sneaky, huh?
Sheryl writes:
Women’s unemployment is rising as fast as men’s. The most recent version of Obama’s economic stimulus package, revealed Saturday, is expected to cost taxpayers $775 billion and create or preserve 3 million jobs, but it does nothing to allay concerns that women will not receive a fair share of job creation dollars.
That’s because most of those new jobs are in male-dominated industries, the kind of work that women are consistently kept away from. (And don’t talk to me about women not applying for those jobs or not sticking it out. I know women who have worked their butts off for years in heavy industry because it pays top dollar, despite the never-ending sexual harassment and bias and discrimination. But a woman can’t force herself to be hired if the assholes in charge won’t give her a shot, and she can’t force herself to be promoted if the shit-for-brains men close ranks. It happens –all the goddamn time.)
Third: Creating a compelling cultural narrative of women’s history
We were talking about this right after the election, and now we’re on it again with the launch of Anna Belle’s new women’s history series at The New Agenda. This comment by Ali is so chock full of keenly fine suggestions that I must drag it out of the comment dungeon and into the brilliant light of the blogular front page:
I did a little thinking this evening about what I think is need to get women’s history into the k-12 curriculum. I thought about my experiences as a teacher, what I think will get teachers off their bum to teach this stuff. In addition to what has also been mentioned and Lisa’s great idea above I have:
1. Contact publishers of educational materials. In droves. Request Women’s history materials. Offer contacts of those who can create such materials if needed. Teachers love nice materials. Shiny booklets. I have them in my home right now – booklets about MLK, Cesar Chavez, Malcom X, The Japanese Internment Camps. They are easy to use and I love the way they look. Xerox copies eventually get lost. These books stick around.
2. Create a small publishing company of women’s history material. Not as impossible as it sounds. My college teacher created just such a company to generate more materials with Native American themes.
3. Infiltrate the government system. Those who work for the federal, state and local governments doing teacher training and curriculum development need to be on board. I’ve been to a million of these trainings. Women’s history is not part of the scene.
4. Lead presentations at educational conferences across the country. This might be the easiest thing to do if we can get our educators on board. These conferences are always looking for something new. This would indeed be new and it’s not so hard to write up a proposal.
5. At teacher’s conferences and workshops, educational publishers always set up booths to sell their materials. Teachers love this stuff and they are always looking for new stuff. We need a publishing presence to present beautiful books and posters.
Yeah, I know these goals are a bit loftier, and take more than a bit organizing. But this is what I think is needed to REALLY get in there.
Discuss amongst yourselves!
A plea for a friend in need: Anna Belle, the expert in American women’s history who has taught us all so much, is in a bit of a jam this month. She and her family are shy of funds until Anna Belle’s new teaching job starts, and they have bills to pay. If you can help a bit, please do.
21 Responses to “Three disparate topics, but with a hidden thread connecting them (can you guess what it is?)”
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Sheryl Robinson says:
I know! I know! It’s a cashew shortage (from an Obama voter):
Well, it is a rising sense of..hmmm, how shall I put this?
by MichaelRyerson
“Let me put it this way: do you remember episode 35, season 4 of Curb Your Enthusiasm? This one is titled ‘The 5 Wood’ but what I’m concerned about here is a subplot having to do with Larry’s sense of being somehow shortchanged by David Schwimmer’s father who markets a line of grocery notions including a bag of raisins and cashews which Larry feels contains too few cashews in proportion to the number of (the cheaper) raisins. I agree with you wholeheartedly, Barack Obama was by far the only possible candidate for which I could cast my ballot but…I’m…sorta feeling like maybe there aren’t as many cashews in here as I expected.”I’m anticipating more alarming revelations to follow.
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purplefinn says:
From Ali’s comment: 2. Create a small publishing company of women’s history material. Not as impossible as it sounds.
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Try this: The National Women’s History Project (NWHP)
This is a very good source of quality material. I’ve used it at the elementary level and even at the college level:Also “Give Women’s History a Home Next to the National Mall”
An effort to move the National Women’s History Museum to D.C. where it will be accessed by many more people than in its current site in Seneca Falls. Please contact your representatives.
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purplefinn says:
Violet, get well soon. Honey lemon tea and chicken soup are my favorite cold remedies.
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Lisa says:
Fresh grated ginger tea with raw honey. Get well Violet. I love the post. Just this morning my first grade daughter was filling me in on Martin Luther King’s story. I told her that was wonderful, and then started talking about the suffragettes to her, as did my husband. We need these educational materials. Ali has some great ideas.
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Anna Belle says:
Thank you again, Violet. You’re so wonderful to me, and I really appreciate that.
Couldn’t agree more on the healing properties of Chicken soup. I’ve never heard of raw ginger and honey tea, so I’m intrigued. I’ll have to try it next time I’m sick.
Good work, Lisa! That’s exactly how it’s done. Transitions in conversations discussing diverse empowerment.
Ali’s ideas are EXCELLENT! If anybody wants to start that publishing company, you’ve got a writer ready for you!
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Lisa says:
you’ve got to use the raw unprocessed honey Anna Belle it has super anti-bacterial properties. My sister is an acupuncturist and turned me on to it.
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Sis says:
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/wmad0.html
Black women in mathematicsQuiet Mountain Essays
http://www.quietmountainessays.org/http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~el.....women.html
Black women and suffrage:
Initially, (Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin) was admitted to the 1800 conference of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs because
her skin color was so fair that the White delegates who registered her didn’t know that she was Black.When they discovered the truth, Ruffin was banned from speaking, and an attempt was made to remove
her from the convention. The White Woman’s Era Club then issued an official statement, saying “that colored women should confine themselves to their clubs and the large field of work open to them there.”http://nativeamericansagainsto.....-movement/
Native Americans against ObamaBy the way, Obama is considering, if he hasn’t done so already, appointing Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General. Gupta, that shillmeister for pharma, has an integrated (health care integrated with pharma money) receives Merck funding support. One of the websites (and CNNs) moments in shill was Gupta and Lady Laura Bush pushing Gardasil even though there is no evidence for it doing what they said. Pam Martens has a good article on that on Counterpunch:
http://www.counterpunch.org/martens07202007.html
July 20, 2007CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, Laura Bush and the Marketing of Merck’s Gardasil
Doctoring the NewsBy PAM MARTENS
CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, was raising eyebrows five months before he bungled his fact-checking segment on Michael Moore’s health care documentary, “Sicko,” leaving Moore and many of CNN’s viewers questioning Gupta’s journalistic integrity. Writing on his CNN blog on February 28, 2007, Dr. Gupta endorsed Merck’s controversial and scientifically challenged vaccine for girls and young women, Gardasil, without shedding any light on the incestuous relationship he has with Merck.
“As a doctor, and parent, I would recommend the vaccine for my daughters. I feel the ability to protect them in any way, including from cancer, is my primary obligation.” (1)
The vaccine is being touted by Dr. Gupta, First Lady Laura Bush, and nonprofit groups funded by Merck as a means of preventing cervical cancer. In fact, however, its clinical trials never tested for preventing cervical cancer. The vaccine was tested for preventing pre cancerous lesions associated with two strains of Human Papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease. Since these lesions can take 12 to 20 years to develop into cervical cancer and the clinical trials lasted less than five years, medical experts warn that the jury is still out on what impact this vaccine might have on cervical cancer rates.
The results of Merck’s clinical trials showed the efficacy of the vaccine was “modest,” even for preventing pre cancerous lesions, among a general population of young women, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. (2)
This might have been enough to kill the idea of mass inoculations with the vaccine had Merck released its final clinical trial data to peer reviewed journals in a timely fashion. Instead, it launched three ad and marketing campaigns that fostered the false impression that this vaccine had been proven to prevent cervical cancer along with a public relations blitz that stretched from California to Paris and involved payments to journalists. Only then, after the Food and Drug Administration had approved the drug, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had recommended it for broad use, and questions grew in the press as to why this “miracle breakthrough” had not been peer reviewed, did Merck finally release its late phase trial data.
Eleven and twelve year old girls, the very target of proposed mandatory vaccination by Merck, were never tested at all for efficacy in pre-licensing clinical trials. Merck simply decided that the bodies of prepubescent girls would react the same as mature women to the vaccine. The FDA was fully aware of this when they licensed the vaccine for potentially millions of prepubescent girls, requiring only that post licensing studies be done for efficacy and safety on these children after they were injected with the drug. (3)Dr. Gupta began his on-air promotions for Gardasil eight months before the vaccine was vetted and approved by the FDA. Here’s a segment from a “CNN Live Today” broadcast of October 6, 2005:
“GUPTA: The vaccine is called Gardasil, and Merck and Company Inc., the manufacturer, says it plans to apply for a license before the end of the year. Now, if approved, this vaccine may become extremely common, recommended to all women in their teenage years before they become sexually active. Rose Dennis had no such option. She had to endure a hysterectomy, chemotherapy and radiation to become cancer free. For her, and possibly thousands of others, a vaccine would make all the difference.” (4)
Dr. Gupta continued over the ensuing months to promote Gardasil. Here’s an excerpt from the “Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees” broadcast on June 29, 2006:
“GUPTA: Now there is a way to prevent the virus from ever taking hold in the first place. It’s a vaccine. Typically, you think of vaccines for the measles or chicken pox. But Gardasil protects you against cancer. Trials showed the vaccine could lower cervical cancer rates by 70 percent.” (5)
The clinical trials for Gardasil showed no such thing. (6) Even Merck is not making this wild and unsupported claim.
On May 17, 2007, CNN aired an interview between Dr. Gupta and First Lady Laura Bush. (7) Video Clip. The First Lady endorses mass inoculations of children with Gardasil on the basis that it will protect them later in life against cervical cancer. Gupta does not challenge her on the fact that there is zero evidence that the vaccine provides such long-term protection. The vaccine’s own researcher acknowledges this. (8)
Would any of the following information have been relevant for Dr. Gupta or the First Lady to share with CNN viewers in discussing a vaccine planned for mass inoculations of children: according to Merck’s SEC filing 11 days prior to this broadcast, the company is facing a criminal investigation by the Bush administration’s U.S. Department of Justice over Vioxx marketing; a scheme that concealed tens of thousands of heart attacks and strokes caused by its last blockbuster drug, Vioxx. Additionally, the company reported it “has also been named as a defendant in separate lawsuits brought by the Attorneys General of Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Texas and Utah. These actions allege that the Company misrepresented the
safety of Vioxx.” (9)Perhaps Dr. Gupta was reluctant to bring up the subject of Vioxx, given his early dismissal of the dangers. Here’s how he responded to Miles O’Brien on CNN’s “American Morning” on October 30, 2003:
“Miles O’Brien: Let’s talk about Vioxx. Some indication it might increase the risk of heart attack?
“Gupta: This stat has been around since August of 2001. They talked about the increase of heart attack with Vioxx. The numbers are very small. Perhaps a small percentage increase in the overall risk of heart attacks with Vioxx. They say 37 percent to 39 percent but that’s of a very small number. After 90 days, no increased risk.” (10 )
It’s difficult to imagine a statement more riddled with factual inaccuracies. And where did Dr. Gupta get his information? He tells us in the interview: “We’ve talked to the makers of Vioxx, the Merck company.”
The overarching issue in all of this is the dangerous and growing tentacles of a corporate agenda that seeks to control every message pertaining to its corporate brands in every venue visited or medium viewed by a consumer. That includes TV and cable news. Increasingly, corporations demand “integration” for their advertising dollars.Dr. Gupta is part of this new wave of “integration” as co-host of a program called AccentHealth. Here’s how the AccentHealth website explains itself: (11)
“AccentHealth is America ‘s #1 integrated health media company offering advertisers multiple consumer touch points in the place where health matters most — the doctors office. AccentHealth’s waiting room TV network produced by CNN and hosted by CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Robin Meade, reaches 132 million viewers annually in 185 Nielsen Markets…To complement your broadcast message, and the consumer focused product information you can provide in our 10,800 offices, AccentHealth offers another channel into the physician’s office — a unique fax program that can help you strengthen your physician relationships…Reinforce product credibility through the “Halo Effect…” How would you like to see your product on our show?
AccentHealth runs frequent on-air promotions to engage viewers and ensure more focused viewing…Our healthy mascot “Abby Apple” has been reminding our viewers to lead a healthy lifestyle for 4 years! Abby can appear on-air using your product… AccentHealth is committed to meeting your campaign expectations. With an audience of receptive, health conscious consumers and a direct line into the physician’s office we will customize your AccentHealth initiative to meet your specific brand goals…Use our production facilities to create a custom message for our unique environment…Let us organize
a consumer event to coincide with your AccentHealth on-air campaign….”In a January 17, 2007 interview with TV Week, Greg D’Alba, Chief Operating Officer of CNN ad sales and marketing, explained what’s driving “integration.” “What’s interesting is it’s not about what’s new anymore, but what’s becoming the norm…For every fully integrated package that we present there is an advertiser. We’re batting 1,000 percent on that. And it’s not because we’re developing it and throwing it out there and we’re finding sponsors, it’s because our advertisers and our partners are requesting it, they’re demanding it.” (12)
Given the incestuous nature of “integration,” should Dr. Sanjay Gupta have revealed to his CNN viewers during his extolling of the virtues of Gardasil that its manufacturer, Merck, was a financial sponsor of this integrated marketing scheme he co-hosts at AccentHealth? And exactly who prepared and vetted the First Lady’s whopper on Gardasil? Should the First Lady have been commenting at all on a product from a company under criminal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice? Inquiring minds not yet “integrated” want to know.
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Pam Martens previously worked on Wall Street for 21 years. (She has
no stock position, long or short, in Merck or any pharmaceutical
company.) She resides in New Hampshire and writes on topics that
impact the public interest. Ms. Martens can be reached at pamk741@aol.comNotes
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Gupta
Blog of February 28, 2007:
(2) New England
Journal of Medicine Editorial:
(3) FDA Approval
Letter; see numbered paragraph 1.
(4) CNN Transcript;
Gupta
on Gardasil: October 6, 2005
(5) CNN Transcript;
Gupta
on Gardasil: June 29, 2006
(6) New England Journal of Medicine
Editorial on Gardasil:
(7) Gupta interviews
Laura
Bush on Gardasil:
(8) HPV researcher corrects
Gardasil
myths:
(9) Merck’s
10Q
SEC Filing:
(10) CNN Transcript:
Gupta
on Vioxx; October 30, 2003
(11) AccentHealth Web Site:
(12) TV Week interview with
Greg D’Alba:FAIR USE NOTICE
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Sis says:
My recent post has links. Didn’t make it through.
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Sis says:
Gupta for Obama: where have I seen the open shirt watery theme before?
Previous, snared post has more on Gupta’s conflict with the pharmaceutical industry. More marketing, less science.
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FembotsForObama says:
First we gotta start getting the history books to say that women FOUGHT FOR AND WON the right to vote after many decades.
Violet, don’t forget the fresh lemon in that ginger-honey tea. Lemon has oodles of bioflavonoids. Since I get chronic ear infections w/pain, I recommend Muellin’s garlic oil. Warm up and place a couple of drops in your ear, real soothing with the bonus of it runs down your eustachian tubes into your sinuses. You smell like garlic, but who the h cares when you feel like crap, right? I also used this on my nephew when he had an ear infection as a little baby, and he immediately stopped crying.
Also, I hope you don’t mind me posting this, but I promised PUMA blogs I would. Thanks so much in advance!
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PUMA blogs are being ASSAULTED, again, by Wonkette and other so-called liberal blogs in the election of the 2008 Web Blog Awards.The Wonktards have admitted to cheating after they were being beaten by PUMA blogstars! Seems they abhor democracy even when it comes to something as mundane as a best blog contest. They are livid that other liberal blogs are beating them some of which formed because they were kicking out people’s comments that were criticizing Obama, or after posters who were also critical of Obama during the primaries had their names stolen and hijacked by writing racist and other vile things in their names (I was one such person who had their name stolen, which led me to the moniker I have now, and led me to seek liberal blogs that shared my sentiments about Obama). Or it seems they are insulted that the PUMA blogs were even merely in contention in the first place especially for Best Liberal Blog.
So, let’s help out our PUMA friends…
*Uppity Woman — Best New Blog
*The Confluence — Best Liberal Blog
*NoQuarter — Best Political Coverage
*Savage Politics — Best Up & Coming Blog
*Deadenders — Best Hidden Gem
*Nice Deb — Best Small BlogVOTE EVERY DAY THROUGH 13 JAN
http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/*CakeWrecks — Best Food Blog [this one has really funny pics of professional cake decorating!
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roofingbird says:
lol-What a terrific visual metaphor, Violet. I don’t know if you intended -it’s deeply witty, 3 alpacas searching in different directions for sign or a current, together but disconnected by the snow that leaves no track.
To the rest,
yep
yep
And, excellent list!! let’s use it. Take back the system. In fact I’ve been thinking one thing we could do now is start that list of women’s books and publications and friendly publishers on our websites.I’m not happy with what I see so far on website reading lists.
To facilitate getting it out of the classroom and onto mainstream reading would help. I seems that a lot of folks read what is newly published, but miss older, equally important stuff.I know, since I was off humping brick and hot, I missed a lot. I’m just now reading ManKiller.
Also, let’s not forget Kindle and the new Apple apps.
We could have Kindle reading lists.
Take care of yourself.
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Ali says:
Thanks for posting my list, Violet. This is good because now I feel especially responsible to actually DO something that I wrote.
I think I am going to start with contacting publishing companies and colleagues to see what is already actually out there – or in the works. I hate reinventing the wheel. If there are things, great! We can take it from there. If the selections are not great than time to set the wheels in action to create materials.
Anna Belle – I think what you are working on now for the New Agenda is excellent. Perhaps your work could be compiled and published as an educational material?
I’m also interested in the grade 6 – 9 age range. What’s great about this, and even k – 9 materials, is that nonfiction materials in these grade levels are often used in adult education programs such as GED, Basic Literacy and ESL programs. So with nonfiction k – 9 materials you can also reach out to adults and educate the parents as well.
Lisa, I love the conversation you had with your little girl this morning!
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orlando says:
I hope this fantastic drive to get women’s history taught is going to include the insistance that this is history, or human history, not an annex to it. What I mean is, part of the program needs to be that we show how history as it is currently taught is flawed and incomplete: it doesn’t need a chapter at the back of the book or a shelf in the library labelled “women’s history”, it needs women to be included in the picture every step of the way, as a matter of course.
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cruccia says:
just want to come over every once in a while to experience some real irreverence. It’s so good for my soul!! Your blog loosens up my brain. Thanks Violet!! Feel better soon……
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cruccia says:
my younger son is a history major at Ohio State University (go bucks!!) and is required to take Women’s History which he has just started this week. Having a mother like me, he’s a bit excited about it and even has ideas about how to make the narrative of that history better. It’s a start….
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AM says:
I don’t know if making women’s history more accessible will make much difference. During a 30 year span working in women’s bookstores I observed that second wavers were very interested in women’s history, absorbed as much as they could and then moved on to other things, while third wave women totally had other things on their minds. I wonder: does the concept of equality with men cause women’s history to feel irrelevant? Does it cut us off from our roots?
Being derooted, it seems to me, is a condition of third and succeeding waves, and that goes for men too.
I think it would take very high drama, the kind that famously focuses the mind, to reroot us in women’s history, women’s way.
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JeanLouise says:
Hello Violet, best wishes for an improvement in your health. Rice pudding and extra sleep is always good for what ails you.
As to my comment that Obama’s election gained power for some blacks, you need only observe the body language of the celebrating hordes on election day. Winning, even through chicanery, carries power. The illusion of success can breed self-confidence (or arrogance) and success. Besides, what we saw as chicanery, the “winners” see as strategy and tactics. Race-baiting and sexism worked for Obama. It will be used by and work for some people who follow in his footsteps. He’s written a “how-to” book for a group of people who are willing to get ahead at any cost.
I didn’t mean to suggest that Obama’s “victory” benefitted all African-Americans in the same way that an earned victory would have, just that it’s not without it’s benefit to particular members of the African-American community.
The blackagendareport recognized Obama for the poser that he is long ago. I’m lamenting that no one in the white MSM bothered to visit their site during the campaign.
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HeroesGetMade says:
Common thread amongst the trifecta – women don’t count, and just in case anyone thinks they might count, let’s make them invisible?
JeanLouise, I didn’t reply in the last thread since I thought it was dead, but see that we mostly agree. Obama may’ve increased the power of certain individuals, but has not increased the stature of any class of people. I think “illusion of success” is the key phrase – I’ll never forget all the black men on the tv telling me how Obama’s election was a step forward for women as well as blacks, because well …. they said so! And the pretense that Obama was the next MLK got real old real fast. He’s a guy that launched himself from MLK’s (and others’) shoulders without ever being part of their movement or even acknowledging their achievements, not to mention his debt to them.
I would go even further to say that he’s likely to set people of color back by going along with racism (goes nicely with the sexism) when it rears its ugly head in order to curry favor with influential folks who happen to be racist. I’ve seen no evidence he gives a rip about any -ism that doesn’t directly affect himself and his, unless it can be used to smear the competition. Otherwise, it doesn’t exist, and those who claim it does are old-school fools not down with the NewPolitik. Also, real incidences of racism are likely to be met with the STFU of, “Now that Obama’s president, racism is dead and buried, so stop whining.” As always, though, it’d make me ecstatic if he proved me wrong.
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Northwest rain says:
Education — putting women BACK into history really does work and it is doable.
Way back in the 70s I did my MA thesis on educating Jr. High students about “sex role stereotyping”. We did pre-post assessment of stereotyping — and showed film strips and had discussions about precieved roles of males and females. Attitudes and perceptions of the “proper” jobs for males and females can be changed.
Right now the only real education about sexism and Women as part of history (except for the few enlightened teachers!!) is the negative sort of street education and the horrible example being set by Obama.
I was never much in favor of “women’s studies” as a separate degree program in college — because the damned males in charge only allowed that to shut the females up — and so they didn’t have to fully expose the fact that women have largely been left out of the textbooks — history, English etc.
There is a publishing house that does on demand publishing — as the orders come in the books are published
http://www.publishamerica.com/
Write the books — do the research — get school districts to teach the FULL history of America and the world.
I clearly remember my High School English text book — NOT ONE FEMALE AUTHOR — NOT ONE!! On my own I discovered that there were many female authors and poets. To leave women out of the text books is unforgivable and it was sexists. Art Appreciation in college — not one single woman artist was discussed. Putting women back in text books on all levels is what is needed.
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Violet says:
Common thread amongst the trifecta – women don’t count, and just in case anyone thinks they might count, let’s make them invisible?
Pretty much.
For your prize, I will send you a nice fresh unopened box of Kleenex!
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HeroesGetMade says:
Violet, hope the crud is nearly gone. To keep it at bay there’s this wonderful stuff called Agrisept that kills off all manner of infection. It’s citrus-derived, not a primitive patented pharmaceutical, and 8-12 drops in your favorite juice (daily, or when not feeling well) stops most things before they can get going.
If it’s all the same to you, I’ll pass on the unopened box of Kleenex and keep a bead on the reading list of disappeared women in history. Kind of like the premise of Faludi’s Terror Dream, heroes get made while heroines get disappeared. It’s long past time for that to change.
