SILENCE IS NOT GOLDEN MARCH UPDATE

BY: ATTORNEYMOM, WAOD CONTRIBUTOR

For anyone who will be supporting Blkseagoat with his counter demonstration on tomorrow, please bring a video camera. We respectfully ask that you upload any counter demonstration footage to youtube.com for our viewing.

Please let us know that the footage is available on youtube by emailing Blkseagoat at sbjatlanta@yahoo.com. Please click here for more information about the SILENCE IS NOT GOLDEN demonstration.

Good luck, Blkseagoat. I will be praying for you. No profanity, please.

Sidebar: Thank you so much, Blkseagoat, for standing up for my daughter and me. : - ) I am glad to know that someone cares about Black women and has the courage to publicly support us.

SIDEBAR UPDATE: GINA GETS CHEWED OUT BY A NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK REPRESENTATIVE

BY: ATTORNEYMOM, WAOD CONTRIBUTOR

I just received a call from Miss Gina whereby she advised me that she was just chewed out by Tamika Mallory, Director of the Decency Initiative for the National Action Network. Miss Mallory feels that Gina is using her voice to “bash’ the National Action Network.

Gina further stated that Miss Mallory feels that there can be no resolution between them because Tamika Mallory does not like Gina’s tone.

Gina would like to know why Miss Mallory is not calling Laurel Robinson, Executive Director of West Palm Beach Housing Authority and asking her why she refuses to provide adequate security to protect the residence of Dunbar Village.

For months now, Gina has been blogging on the moral indifference demonstrated by our prominent Black leaders when it comes to the Dunbar Village Rape and other crimes committed by blacks against other blacks. She attempted to get the Rev. Al Sharpton, NAACP and others to exhibit the same moral outrage toward the Dunbar Village rapists as they have shown toward the crimes committed by white perpetrators against blacks.

To date, there has only been continued silence and indifference.

I feel that the following statement contained in Gina’s post below says it best:

"Who is speaking for the victims of the far more common and lethal black on black violence?"

As per famed Rapper Kool Moe Dee, "I never ran from the Klu Klux Klan
and I shouldn't have to run from a black man."

Selah.

HAS POPULARITY HIGHJACKED THE JENA 6 CAUSE??

BY: ATTORNEYMOM, WAOD CONTRIBUTOR

The Jena 6 story was initially broken by KAYT 88.1 FM Radio Talk Show Host Tony Brown. For approximately one year prior to the Jena 6 story reaching national attention, Mr. Brown was in the trenches working to bring public attention and justice to the Jena 6 defendants.

Also in the trenches with Tony Brown and the Jena 6 families, was Pastor Brian Moran, who is the young preacher from Jena, Louisiana, who, allowed the Jena 6 families to meet at the church he ministers, after they were turned away by other local black ministers.

Both men worked tirelessly with the local chapter of the NAACP to address the injustice that was generated by unequal treatment of the Jena 6 teens by local parish Prosecutor.

Click here to hear an interview with Tony Brown and Pastor Brian Moran. This eye-opening interview was given on September 11th on Victory Waters Speak on blogradio.com. In the interview you can hear Mr. Brown's concerns (albeit subtle) about radio talk show personalities being involved in the Jena 6 fight.

I did not post about the "beef" between the local NAACP and Michael Baisden and Al Sharpton because I did not want to highlight my disappointment with Michael Baisden and the Rev. Sharpton. It seemed that Rev. Sharpton and Baisden held their own rally without consulting the local NAACP who initially organized the Jena 6 demonstration that took place in October. Click here to read Mr. Brown’s post regarding the tension between the NAACP and Baisden.

In fact, radio talk show personality and Attorney Warren Ballentine publicly denounced Michael Baisden’s “highjack” of the Jena 6 March. I guess after a scolding from Rev. Sharpton, Mr. Ballentine tempered his speech toward Mr. Baisden.

I feel that the most important people involved in the Jena 6 case have been pushed aside for more popular representatives who really do not have the grassroots connection to the case and the Jena 6 families to ensure that the fiascoes like the one caused by Baisden against Color of Change do not occur.

Do you think that Mr. Baisden consulted with Tony Brown or any other Jena 6 family members besides Mychal Bell's father prior to launching his attack against Color of Change?

Attorneymom, Character Corner