in all this hoopla over Oprah
and the golden globes.
lets not gloss over our entire history there is another side to our history and it is bleak
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/blacks-wrongful-convictions-study/index.html
All Marvin Anderson ever wanted to be was a firefighter. Instead, at 18 years old, he was wrongfully convicted of rape, sodomy, abduction and robbery.
When a Virginia judge sentenced him to 210 years in prison, "My whole body went numb," Anderson told CNN. "I knew I was going to prison for something I didn't do."
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/scottsboro-boys-trial-and-defense-campaign-1931-1937
On March 25, 1931, nine unemployed young black men, illegally riding the rails and looking for work, were taken off a freight train at Scottsboro, Alabama and held on a minor charge. The Scottsboro deputies found two white women, Ruby Bates and Victoria Price, and pressured them into accusing the nine youths of raping them on board the train. The charge of raping white women was an explosive accusation, and within two weeks the Scottsboro Boys were convicted and eight sentenced to death, the youngest, Leroy Wright at age 13, to life imprisonment.
I'm sorry but I care more about the forgotten/ignored women who have been abused (not only physically but economically) in our misogynistic culture, not only the privileged women.
I am more concerned with equal pay for the everyday women, who has to take care of her kids with a paycheck that can't cover her family needs than wealthy women who marry wealthy men, complaining they make less money than their male counterparts and then go on the red carpet to strut their idiotic dresses, that they wear once
I care more about the black and brown men thrown away in our jails and prisons on false accusations or trumped up charges because it makes "us" feel safer
Our royalty in this American culture is celebrity and it is sickening
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