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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn Memory Of Adilah Gaither, Tanganika Stanton, Mildred Beaubrun and Sakia Gunn...
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In Memory Of Adilah Gaither, Tanganika Stanton, Mildred Beaubrun and Sakia Gunn: International Anti-Street Harassment Week
MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012 AT 9:39AM THE BLOGMOTHER
I just learned that this week is International Anti-Street Harassment Week while reading a post named after the documentary "Black Woman Walking". She was memorializing Adilah Gaither:
I lived to tell about it, but 16-year-old Adilah Gaither wasnt so lucky. Black Woman Walking is dedicated to the memory of young Adilah,
who was shot and killed in 1998 while standing at a bus stop because she wouldnt give a boy who was trying to holla her phone number.
http://blip.tv/play/AZKFdgI.html
For those of you who think this is funny or a compliment, It's not, it's deadly serious.
Take the case of Mildred Beaubrun.
Investigators said the men opened fire on a car full of teenage girls at John Young Parkway and Princeton Street two weeks ago. Mildred Beaubrun was removed from life support Tuesday, more than two weeks after she was shot at the Orlando intersection.
Investigators said Beaubrun and two of her friends stopped at a gas station after leaving Club Firestone. They were approached by a group of men asking for their phone numbers.
When the men didn't get what they wanted, they followed the girls to the intersection of John Young Parkway and Princeton (see map). One of them fired a shot. It hit Beaubrun, who was sitting in the back seat.
http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/waod/2012/3/19/in-memory-of-adilah-gaither-tanganika-stanton-mildred-beaubr.html
MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012 AT 9:39AM THE BLOGMOTHER
I just learned that this week is International Anti-Street Harassment Week while reading a post named after the documentary "Black Woman Walking". She was memorializing Adilah Gaither:
I lived to tell about it, but 16-year-old Adilah Gaither wasnt so lucky. Black Woman Walking is dedicated to the memory of young Adilah,
who was shot and killed in 1998 while standing at a bus stop because she wouldnt give a boy who was trying to holla her phone number.
http://blip.tv/play/AZKFdgI.html
For those of you who think this is funny or a compliment, It's not, it's deadly serious.
Take the case of Mildred Beaubrun.
Investigators said the men opened fire on a car full of teenage girls at John Young Parkway and Princeton Street two weeks ago. Mildred Beaubrun was removed from life support Tuesday, more than two weeks after she was shot at the Orlando intersection.
Investigators said Beaubrun and two of her friends stopped at a gas station after leaving Club Firestone. They were approached by a group of men asking for their phone numbers.
When the men didn't get what they wanted, they followed the girls to the intersection of John Young Parkway and Princeton (see map). One of them fired a shot. It hit Beaubrun, who was sitting in the back seat.
http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/waod/2012/3/19/in-memory-of-adilah-gaither-tanganika-stanton-mildred-beaubr.html
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In Memory Of Adilah Gaither, Tanganika Stanton, Mildred Beaubrun and Sakia Gunn... (Original Post)
MrScorpio
Mar 2012
OP
It may be impossible to predict BUT not to fight. We need to come up with a plan to
Ecumenist
Mar 2012
#2
PDJane
(10,103 posts)1. I hurt for these women.
I do not understand why women, and especially black and brown women, are considered fair game. I've seen it, however, and it's impossible to predict or to fight.
Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)2. It may be impossible to predict BUT not to fight. We need to come up with a plan to
combat the war, (LITERAL), on women in the same way other injustices have been fought.