Sunday, November 4, 2007
What we do for the Jena 6, we should do for Megan Williams
It came to my attention a little while ago that there was a rally in West Virginia for Megan Williams, the young lady who was tortured for days at the hands for a group of white people. There were a few hundred people rallying at the state capitol in Charleston. A few hundred people. UGGGGGHH! This makes me sick. I didn't hear about this until the whole thing was over. And even when I did hear about the rally, it was only through an email list for black professional women in DC. Not on CNN or the Michael Basiden show or Al Sharpton's or Jesse Jackson's loud mouth like the Jena 6 protest. Why do we do this? Why on earth do we put more value and attention to the Jena 6, a bunch of teenage boys who beat up a white kid at school, than on Megan Williams, a woman who herself was beaten ans sexually assaulted by a bunch of whites? Why? What is so much more important in the Jena 6 than Megan Williams? Where are our so-called leaders? Oh, that's right. It's about a black woman, not a man. This is ridiculous. Megan Williams and other black women in this country need our support just like black men do. Jesse and Al and Mike Baisden and all those other black radio hosts that were pushing for the National Blackout Day and telling everybody to wear black on that day in October should have been telling everyone to get to West Virginia to support Megan Williams. CNN and the other white media outlets gave her story more coverage than those supposed black leaders and radio hosts gave her. It's all about the Jena 6, a bunch of 6 black boys who jumped a white kid. I'm not saying that they should be charged with attempted murder but they are not exactly innocent either. If they had not gotten into that fight, nobody would have ever heard of them. Megan Williams didn't attack those white people. They attacked her and we rarely hear about this. I am so pissed off. I see Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson's face every time some black man is some how racially victimized but never when a black woman is victimized. Yet, they want all blacks, men and women, to follow them. That's crap. That's some real BS. I voiced my frustration, like I'm doing now, on the email list I mentioned earlier and another black woman emailed me back agreeing with me. She also stated that there was this story of a black woman in Baltimore who was burned up along with her kids in her house all because she was trying to get the drug dealers off of her block. That's terrible. Yet, we don't hear anything about it. That story died fast. No rallying cry no nothing for this woman. If anything should have gotten the black community together marching and protesting conditions in our community, that should have been it. Someone losing their life trying to do what's right. But no we stay silent. We stay silent when it comes to black women. Sexism is the word for this. Sexism in the black community. What we do for the Jena 6, we don't do half as much for Megan Williams, or the woman in Palm Beach,FL who was gang raped, or the woman in Baltimore killed by drug dealers. Why? Why? Why are black men so easily seen as being victims and black women are never viewed as victims. They suffer from crimes too. And they are much more likely to be injured and endure sexually based crimes like rape. It's a shame. A damn shame. I'm like Tupac on this "It's time to heal our women, be real to our women"Amen Tupac. We need to be healed. Sexism in the black community is blatant and it needs to stop. What we do for the Jena 6, we need to do for Megan Williams. The black woman is equal to not beneath the black man.
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The womans suffrage didn't happen because men decided woman needed equal rights, but because woman decided and acted. It's unfortunate that blacks would treat their woman like whites, but hopefully by you, and other bloggers raising attention, people like Jesse Jackson will champion the causes of all blacks.
Black women have always had to stand aside. No one talks about the hundreds of years we had endure rape and forced concubinage. We were kicked out of the womens suffrage groups so that white southern women would not be offended. The rate of women in jail for drugs has gone up 8888%. More Black and Hispanic women are dying of AIDS than anyone else in this country. We always talk about uniting but women always seem to be following men, when will we walk with you?
There are some definite attitude adjustments that need to be made around race and gender issues. It does not help when the males who are working as organizers have open disagreements. It seems that there is a real need to revise the black agenda period. We are being attacked on all sides. It is still the same fight. It is unfortunate that the numbers were not equal. I am concerned about sticking with the cases. Dealing with a focus that unifies instead of divides us. That is equally as important.
I WONDER THE SAME THING. THERE WAS HARDLY NO PRESS ON THIS AND I DID NOT HEAR ABOUT THIS INFO ON ANY OF MEDIA FORUMS THAT WERE DISCUSSING JENA 6 SUCH AS MICHAEL BAISDEN, ETC . WHAT CONCERNS ME IS THAT THIS I HAD A DISCUSSION WITH A GENTLEMENT AND HE WAS ACTUALLY MEASURING THE TWO INSTANCES AND STATED THAT WHAT HAPPEN TO THE KIDS IN JENA 6 WAS FAR WORST THAN WHAT HAD HAPPEN TO MEAGAN WILLIAMS. YOU KNOW I TOLD HIM….THAT WAS ABSOULTELY INSANE. THIS WAS A HATE CRIME AND SHE WAS TORTURED, BEATEN WITH SWITCHES, RAPE, STRIP NAKED, WAS MADE TO EAT DOG FEECES ETC. I WAS JUST DISAPPOINTED THAT IT WAS THIS MARCH WAS NOT PUBLICIZED VERY WELL. I PRAY THAT ANOTHER MARCH WILL BE ORGANZIED WITH MORE MEDIA HYPE LIKE THEY DID FOR JENA 6.
I hope that we do not have another reason like sistah Megan or The Dunbar Village to march about.
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