Hey all, this was started yesterday:
Today is Thanksgiving, and it never seems to amaze me the types of content that I, on instinct, gravitate to. In wake, I reflect on the ingenuity and destructive tendency of man, on that note I give thanks to the mental capacity that has been endowed upon me.
Groupthink: the good vs bad: Media, Rape, and Survival tactics…
While researching I ran across Bill Moyer’s blog: “News Polarization & Ethnic Media”. Well immediately my curiosity ran to the blog. From what I understand, there is a new concern. A paper from Stanford University’s Political Communications Lab reveals that opportunities in minority media demonstrates that people like to tune into news that goes along with their beliefs (i.e. Michael Basiden). This type of behavior (to turn to bias programs) will “defer” us from real news that is the “social glue” that connects the people of America. Later blogs revel that for years minorities (including women) have been (and are) under represented in radio ownership. As an African American women -I would like to stop right there. I want to take you to the next topic: Rape.
This week in: The Injustice of Women, Group Rape Cases: Dunbar Villiage and Father Kovac.
On Itunes I found the Black Women’s Round Table. I had no idea this had happen in America, but through the show it was brought to my attention the cruel happenings at Dunbar Villiage in Fla. Reading further news reports (CNN, AP) I found out that several young black men tortured, rape, and forced a mother to perform unspeakable acts on her own son. Subsequent to the event, the young men went back to the scene of the happenings: Dunbar Village. The contention here is that this issue has been brought to the attention of black, media appointed, leaders and they have taken little to no steps to further publicize this atrocious event. It was also pointed out that the only concerns of these, media appointed, leaders is the attention that they derive from black white issues –Oh boy! In short I would like to say I am appalled and speechless at the rape event; and I will continue to follow this story.
Father Kovac’s blog… Father Kovac’s blog says women’s right group NOW (National Organization of Women) are self-serving because they haven’t (I guess, publicly) address the 19 year old, Saudi Arabina, young girl who was rape by several men. On top of the horror of rape, the young woman was physically punished and denationalize by her government for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. According to law, she was not supposed to be around men that weren’t family members, so in suit she was the cause of the crime. According to US AP, her lawyer was reprimanded for his representation of her.
But of course, I brought this up with an associate, and I was told to remember Tawana Brawley. For everyone case that is said to be false there are more that are proven to be correct. Understand this, I began this audio show because of the inequality of women appropriately being represented in media, not because I could speak. I said that to say this, for every pro there is a con, so when should we draw the line or get involved?
“Putting Out The Word”
Along with the inspiration of the despairing (not pillaging) Pilgrims, and the inebriated genius of Charlie Parker, I watched a documentary on pioneering earthen homebuilders on the History Channel. The sod homes of the Prairie Plains, post and beams homes in my good ole New England, adobe homes of the southwest, and log cabin homes of the South East. I took notice of one of the methods of log cabin building “Putting out the Word”. “Putting out the word” meant that all of the settlers would come together in the construction process and up would go a home in three days. Life was simpler then, little media confusion.
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Wouldn’t this be awesome, if we could solve today’s problems the way the log cabin builders did.
I give acknowledgements to:
The History Channel
Bill Moyer, Blog
Black Women Round Table
Father Kovac
“We pray to god, but we row to shore” -Iris, Carnival
