Dearest readers, I received an urgent email “urging” me to inform you about an article in a paper I’ve never heard of. I pray that this person is NOT a WAOD reader and that they just stumbled across the Black Ops email account by accident. Because if they were a WAOD reader, they would know that this is HORRIBLE activism. TRULY WRETCHED. I offer it only as an example of what NOT to do! My comments are in red.
Mind you, this person sent this to EVERY Black media outlet in the country.
Washington DC Newspaper Sends an Open Solicitation to its Readers ( 80,000+)to Frequent an All Females’ Dorm at Howard University for a “Good Time” at the “Booty Wall” [I guess this is supposed to be some kind of "press release"]
Washington, DC (October 27, 2009) – Erika Niedowski , The Washington City Paper’s Assistant Managing Editor, published a sexist, racist and injurious article, “Who Needs Howard’s Homecoming When There’s the Booty Wall,” that victimized Howard University’s freshmen female students. {DO any students even know this took place?}
Ms. Niedowski, a 1995 Georgetown University graduate and Pulitzer Prize nominee [How'd she end up at the Washington City Paper?], made the following appeal to the newspapers’ readers: “do not attend the homecoming events at Howard…there’s always the “Booty Wall” for a good time, available year-round if you don’t mind the cold.”
Her article implied that freshmen females [I hate it when people refer to Black women and girls as "females"](college teenagers) at Howard sit on a “Booty Wall” (which Ms. Niedowski provides direction to and gives the name of the females’ dorm) waiting to be picked-up by males students or, as Ms. Niedowski quoted from an anonymous teenager’s blog, “old ass broke n*g#@!.” http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/10/21/who-needs-howards-homecoming-when-theres-the-booty-wall/#comments [way to promote the offending material so they'll get more impressions]
The Washington City Paper’s reckless journalism has infringed upon female students’ rights and jeopardized their safety by openly inviting perverts to lurk on Howard’s campus and prey upon young women.
After receiving what Ms. Niedowski called, “nothing short of a wrath in the comments section” from infuriated readers[52 comments, 23 of which were from the same two people so not qualify as eventful, just write a post about Zahara Jolie Pitts Hair and see how many comments you get. ] and a call from Howard University’s student newspaper, The Hilltop, she published a second article on October 22, 2009. In this article she stated that her unsubstantiated, derogatory claims have been substantiated by The Hilltop’s student editor’s acknowledgement that some college guys do refer to wall outside the all females dorm as the “booty wall.” [all of this is true, male Howard students ARE referring to this as the booty wall. She didn't lie]http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/10/22/a-howard-university-student-editor-on-the-booty-wall/# [way to promote the Washington City Paper AGAIN in case your audience missed the first link]
On October 23, 2009, The Hilltop published a response to The Washington City Paper’s article; the blogger, who Ms. Niedowski quoted verbatim, said the blog was strictly satirical and Ms. Niedowski never contacted him. [Calling total BS on your excusing the "blogger". Pam you lost ALL credibility when you made excuses for the person who CREATED the original Booty Wall post because he's a young Black MALE]The Hilltop criticized the article and decried, “students and alumni alike have spoken out in anger against a story published in The Washington City Paper entitled “Who Needs Howard’s Homecoming When There’s the “Booty Wall”? http://www.thehilltoponline.com/local-media-discover-howard-s-booty-wall-outrage-alumni-1.2034860#
Ms. Niedowski and The Washington City Paper continue to incite anger and disrespect its readers’ deeply expressed concerns. [um again, I only saw 52 comments after almost a week of the post being up, I kid you not when I say we've gotten that many in a day when speaking about hair ]The October 22, 2009, article titled, A Howard University Student Editor on the “Booty Wall” was linked to an adult escort site. When questioned about the link, Ms Niedowski insensitively replied to a commenter, “to contact “Larry Libido” at Washington DC Escort News” and, on October 24, 2009, she advertised a “Booty Wall Clocks” for sale (scroll to the end of the page to the last comment). http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/10/22/a-howard-university-student-editor-on-the-booty-wall/#
Herein lies the problem— The Washington City Paper’s irresponsible and sensationalized journalism has the potential to cause injury and harm to innocent and unsuspecting young African American women that have been depicted, not as college students, but as sex objects for The Washington City Paper ‘s and “Larry Libido’s” readers to marginalize and solicit.[Yes, but who did the depicting, the Washington City Paper or the Male Howard Student that Wrote the Original post?]
Please contact The Washington City Paper at 202-332-2100 and its new owner, Atalaya Capital Management at, 212-257-8165 to express your concerns and outrage. Contact Ms. Johnson at 202-***-****for comments or additional information. [oh, Ms. Johnson, I think you've said ENOUGH!]
Well first. What the heck is the Washington City Paper? Two, the offending post only got a whopping 52 comments. Three, if I didn’t know better, I would think that this email came from Erika Niedowski herself. Fourth, any entity that would elevate Ms. Niedowski to a managing editor position is hardly going to be moved by my readers calling to let them know we’re offended by their intentionally offensive writing. This is some Al Sharpton, Ben Jealous, Skip Gates non-directional outrage foolishness.
Black women we can’t afford to be this strategically obtuse.
Last but not least, if you read the ORIGINAL article about this -WHO STARTED THIS FOOLISHNESS??? It was a purportedly Black MALE student at Howard who crowed about said “Booty Wall.” So why are we worried about “Larry Libido” when its clear the men on campus have already objectified Black women? They’ve already been victimized by their fellow male students, yet Ms. Johnson gives these little trolls a pass.
In other words right about now Erika is playing 1000 different kinds of mind games with you. She’s openly mocking you, and your reward is to work as her publicist for FREE? So what exactly do you want, and what are you going to do if you don’t get it? Instead of calling up people who WANTED to offend you in the first place, why not call up WTOP who is advertising on their site?
Why aren’t you calling for the expulsion of Omari Evans, the Howard University student that runs the website that introduced the world to the Bison Booty Wall?
Evans, who contends that he wrote his initial post strictly for satirical purposes said that he would not have been upset if the author of the story would have contacted him first. . .
The post Evans alludes to is one he made on HU Reaction under the “Bisonpedia” section, a section dedicated to giving a student’s insight into the isms of the Mecca. The entry, entited “Bisonpedia: The Booty Wall,” talks about what exactly the Booty Wall is, what purpose it serves, and the Booty Wall through the years.
The post concludes saying, “ALL HOWARD UNIVERSITY ALUMNI KNOW ABOUT THE BOOTY WALL…If an alum does not know about the Booty Wall, then you should ask for their diploma.” Hilltop
SO is it that we’re upset Black women are being objectified, or the fact that White people noticed?
Notice Black women that the one who started all of this according to the Hilltop was Omari Evans, a male Howard Student.
Pam, I suggest you get on the horn about Mr. Omari Evans diminishing the value of your hard earned tuition money. Oh yeah, you might enjoy Omari’s chronicle about how he obtained an EBT card, that’s FOOD STAMPS for the DC bourgeoisie, thanks to some helpful instructions left on campus.
I think I’ll retire at the end of the year since I think we’ve officially jumped the shark when we have to type both Larry Libido AND Booty Wall in the same post. All we need is the lyrics to a Plies “song” and we’ll have a trifecta of chicanery and foolishness. . Some Black women are bound and determined to remain ignorant! So file this under “Um, so what are you going to do about it now?” and “WWASD=What Would Al Sharpton DO?”
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This is silly, why are they bothering to report on college inside jokes. Must be a slow news day.
I didn’t click the links, this doesn’t deserve my attention.
It’s silly and kind of hard to follow because the quoted article is poorly written in the first place.
“Why aren’t you calling for the expulsion of Omari Evans, the Howard University student that runs the website that introduced the world to the Bison Booty Wall?”
So you’re saying that I should be expelled because I wrote a satirical article about a known landmark on campus called the Booty Wall? I should be expelled for exposing a known truth on Howard’s campus?
You make it seem like I gave the Booty Wall its name. In the article I made no attempts to objectify women. I was merely joking about the men who try to approach and objectify the women that sit on the booty wall, which does indeed happen. If this offends you, then I don’t know what to do for you – perhaps you would prefer to live in a reality where things like this are sugar-coated and presented in a way so you won’t actually know what is going on. If anything I may have even enlightened you, because now you know why the booty wall is called the booty wall and you may now fight against the existence of this landmark if you believe it is destructive to our society. I don’t care if it puts Howard in a negative light. I hope the articles I continue to right further reveal and publicize the negative aspects of HU so that the administration will be forced to get off their lazy asses and fix the campus to what it ought to be. The Booty Wall article was a means to raise attention to the site and the other issues of my peers.
But above all else, I was simply telling a joke. Apparently when people get older they fail to see the sillyness in things and with all their might try to make a nonsensical issue more than it is. Because at least to me this is a non-issue. I think you need to get off your high horse and relax.
Kids!!!!
A few things:
-Africanus is correct, the quoted article is very reader-unfriendly, though I forced myself to plow through it so I would be able to make a well-informed reply.
-blkchik is correct, it’s an inside joke
-I just graduated from Howard, and not only did I live in that dorm as a freshman, I could see & hear said Booty Wall from my window.
With that said, no one is being victimized. The Booty Wall is a short (in height) wall separating the dorm from the sidewalk. It’s a convenient place to sit–to wait to get picked up, or wait for food to be delivered (as girls do), to chat with friends you may not want to bring to your room, or to watch girls come and go and often try to talk to them (which all warm-blooded straight guys do no matter where they are, where they’re from, or who the girls are). It’s the latter activity that gave the wall its name.
Additionally, since this school year began, the Wall has been staffed by a security guard who no longer lets anyone–old, handicapped, student or non-student–sit there.
The Booty Wall receives a lot of negative attention, and on one end, I can understand why. But it also is blown out of proportion by people who do not go to Howard, and only know of it second and third-handed-ly.
Omari, the fact that you even use the slang “Booty Wall” objectifies women. I think that’s the point you don’t seem to understand. Just cause you didn’t call a woman a b*tch or a h*e, that doesn’t suddenly mean that you aren’t objectifying women.
I didn’t go to Howard, but the fact that the entire student body & alumni are ok with such a phrase is telling & quite interesting…
Not sure what the intent is behind stating more than once that the City Paper isn’t on your radar, as if that then makes it irrelevant. “I’ve never heard about it so therefore it holds no weight” type of logic. It’s an alternative weekly that’s been around for nearly 30 years in DC and it occasionally pisses people off, namely black folks who pay attention to it when it’s time to accuse it of racism.
@ Nova,
with black folk like you, we never need to worry about racism from anyone else.
I’m a howard student, and I want to say that everything Omari said is pretty much right. It’s a reality of Howard, people from the local area will drive by and observe the beautiful females sitting on the wall and try their luck. And honestly, what is wrong with a male trying to find a mate? Isn’t that our biological instinct? But for you to say Omari should be expelled for that is the equivalent if I spoke about the hardships that women face in the middle east, the struggles that many african children face in wars such as Ghana and Sierra Leone, the racism that is still alive and well in our OWN country; which I doubt you’ve ever attempted to write an article about these REAL isues to raise awareness for those whom have no voice in our global society. I hope you understand how much you’re blowing the issue out of proportion. Although his article was entirely too satirical, he wrote what was on his mind, and he is protected under his first amendment right.
Is anyone else enjoying the fact that someone who purports to have been engaged in “satire” doesn’t recognize a rhetorical question when they see it? We could care less about Omari, you’re not that important, however if the article enraged people, the need to be enraged with Omari as much as Erika-
But I am enjoying the musings of college students who think the know everything yet understand ZERO.
I am an HU alum (c/o 2000). With the HIV/AIDS rate in DC rivaling sub-saharan Africa, it’s amazing that folks think it is OK for this type of thing to go on. Many of the men that frequent “the wall” are NOT college students. They are OLD PERVERTED MEN looking to score with impressionable BARELY LEGAL young women.
The black male students at Howard are already outnumbered and can have literally two or three actual GIRLFRIENDS at a time. The gender dynamics on that campus (and at most HBCUs) leave the girls seeking attention from men OFF campus and those men tend to be unemployed or underemployed, no ambition, playas, etc. All looking to hook up with a striving young black woman in the hopes of meeting even more striving young black women.
The girls that I knew that hung out on “the wall” tended to be first-generation college girls who were not quite sure if school was for socializing and hooking up or for getting an education and moving on in life. Unfortunately many end up pregnant or dropping out due to lack of financial support from their families.
The problem at Howard and at most HBCUs is that the gender imbalance has led to black women being incredibly desperate for male attention. While women at colleges with less of a gender imbalance can pretty much assume they will find dates with THEIR PEERS, black women at HBCUs or those who attend PWI but limit their social circles to blacks can go for years without dating and mating which is NOT HEALTHY. Or they end up on “the wall” or some other gross situation where they are exploited.
SO many of the problems in the BC stem from too many women and too few men after the age of say 20. It is impossible to function as a normal community with men and women so far apart once they hit adulthood. I am not saying that every black woman goes to college while most black men don’t – but even if a black woman doesn’t puruse higher education she is far more likely to find a job and become a somewhat productive citizen. So even amongst working class blacks there is a gender imbalance. Many working class black women may work and socialize only with other working class black women. Their “available pool of mates” end up being men who don’t even have a job, have been in prison, etc.
This gender imbalance is really the death of African-Americans. “The Wall” is just the result of 40 years of divergent behavioral patterns amongst black men and women.
Now I have Pink Floyd playing in my head. “We don’t need no/ education…”
I have no comment on the reality of the wall or not since I don’t know. Meanwhile I do see the bigger point that it was irresponsible for a supposedly respectable professional newspaper to rip something from a college boy’s blog and run with it as if it were true. Would she have been so irresponsible if it were mostly white Georgetown and we were talking about exposing a dirty secret involving the virtue and safety of white women?
You have college students who are supposed to be educated and getting an education and this is what’s going on on a college campus with adults and HBCU at that….A Booty Wall? This says more about black men and the sex crazies that most people think that they are. You can’t even get away from derogatory names at college and it’s coming from college men. What’s wrong with these boys and men of today? Then some wonder why some young women and young girls act out hell they have men making sexual advances at them in most corners of their lives. Depending on who it is and where u are, to turn them down could be dangerous look at the cases where a guy asks a girl for her number and she says no girls have been killed for saying no.
Some choose not to go to a HBCU for various reasons but from reading this, I can say that they made a good choice.
A booty hall. These boys are just justifying that they are sexual predators. Then when the females do unlady like things and they call them demeaning names while al along these sexual beasts are the ones initiating it.
From reading Omari’s comments above, it seems as if he has a problem with the administration at Howard University. If that is so, he should take it up with the school or maybe this site should investigate what goes on at the school to bring more attention to some issues that the female students face to bring shame to a respected college and maybe the people who donate money to the school might think twice before doing so.
Half of Howard’s student don’t even graduate in 4yrs. Colleges needs standards for its students on how to act and respond to issues. Or maybe Omari wants some attention and wrote the article so he can be talked about on this site.
[I hate it when people refer to Black women and girls as "females"]
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Oh my f—ing goodness. I HATE that shit too! And the WAY that they say it too, with such malice… it angers me. I’m SO glad I’m not the only one.
I’m not even gonna waste any more of my brain cells on that foolishness. My head hurt even more after reading it. All of the people involved sound like misogynist assholes.
If that’s what Howard is about, I’m glad I turned them down.
This is Howard a ghetto ass school and the “Booty Wall” story that being said it is still an HBCU and this needs to stop, be protested. Black women trying to get their education are being marginalized and objectified…
Hell to the No!
@scipio: lol! It took me a minute but I just got that.
Well, the WCP is a slick, gossip rag in Washington, DC. Very few people I know consider it serious journalism; it’s a lot of local political gossip, CONSTANT UPDATES ON THE COMINGS AND GOINGS OF FORMER MAYOR MARION BARRY and an occasional good article, such as the one they did back in April/May on the triple homicide murder of the Deaf sister and her two sons by her boyfriend and father of her youngest child, a daughter, who he did not harm. It’s also good for the listings for clubs, concerts, movies, etc. That’s about it.
The WCP and Bro. Omari may have pointed out something that many may know about, but why did they choose Howard University at this time? I wouldn’t be surprised that a “booty wall” exists, given that some of our sisters on campus like to wear low riding jeans, a throng and the low on the back tattoo for all to see; you walk by someone sitting on the wall or on the Yard and you sometimes get an eye full. But why did the reporter from WCP choose Howard when they don’t cover the crazy public drunkeness, fights with pedestrians, fights with police, etc., that happen every Halloween in the Georgetown area? You know, all those Georgetown and George Washington Univ. students acting a real fool, relieving themselves in people’s yards, blocking traffic, throwing things and endangering public safety?
And as for “brother” Omari, why it this particular topic of such interest? Of all the things going on at Howard University and the surrounding neighborhoods, aren’t there things and issues that deserve more thoughtful attention and intellient, decisive action? Just what are you learning at Howard University? OH MY HOW FAR WE SLAVES HAVE COME!
Will wrote:
[I’m a howard student, and I want to say that everything Omari said is pretty much right. It’s a reality of Howard, people from the local area will drive by and observe the beautiful females sitting on the wall and try their luck. And honestly, what is wrong with a male trying to find a mate? Isn’t that our biological instinct?]
What the…?!
My girlfriend now wife would have slapped the Black off me if I tried a stunt like that. I’m not exaggerating by much since in high school she slugged a Black guy who thought it was his “right” to grab her rear.
Right now, I’m ashamed to admit I’m a Howard alum.
If you want to date a woman, how about treating her respectfully as a fellow human being? Then, you can establish a serious friendship which can lead to dating and even marriage.
Acting like a pimp will not attract any self-respecting Black woman. So, stop watching those lies on BET.
“It’s a reality of Howard, people from the local area will drive by and observe the beautiful females sitting on the wall and try their luck. And honestly, what is wrong with a male trying to find a mate?”
Will, I realize that you may be caught up in the harsh realities of Sierra Leonne and Ghana, however the satirical piece and its criticism by WAOD, is much deeper. I will try to explain it only in a manner in which I know the personal effects of its implication. It involves TWB, traveling while black.
TWB of course does not apply to males because you guys are free to roam. Unfortunately, when abroad, the images presented by black men and the media to the world, have created a prison for any female with brown skin, especially light-brown skin.
You guys aren’t the only ones reading these satirical pieces, viewing rap videos or watching Tyler Perry. Italians, Germans, Russians, Japanese and Africans are as well. Unfortunately, many of them believe these presentations to be realistic.
As a result, when a Black woman is on a TWB sabbath in Italy, foreign men assume she is easy or a prostitute. An African from Niger will spot a black American woman and may feel it appropriate to walk up and say, “hello Ho’” Japanese may try to provoke her because it is well known that she has an “attitude.” Of course they make sure to roll the neck, and put the hands on the hips while guffawing with laughter.
“I think you need to get off your high horse and relax.”
says Omari. It would be nice to get off of our high horses and relax, unfortunately black men and white racism have made that difficult with their presentations. You don’t know what it feels like to travel to other continents and have “potential bitch ho’ from the ghetto, please test” written across your American forehead.
It’s nice that all you older people have suddenly graduated and been filled with an immeasurable amount of wisdom and knowledge, so as to school us young, uneducated fools who are slowly ruining the black community. God forbid we don’t accept this as a global issue. Sure, the imagery that the name “The Booty Wall” creates is unsettling.
But speaking as a young Black woman who had to walk past that wall everyday to get to and from class, I NEVER felt like I was being objectified by ANY of the male students from Howard. Any lewd behavior was strictly from the D.C. natives who would post up outside the Quad.
Omari really hasn’t done anything wrong in writing this article, and to attempt to crucify him on behalf of every man who has every walked past the Quad and said something to a girl sitting there is so irrational it makes me question whether you learned reasoning skills while you were getting those degrees that make you infinitely more intelligent than anyone under the age of 23. Why do you feel the need to take this one article in a tabloid rag and make it into a issue of black diaspora? Are you gonna start comparing Omari and other Howard men to rappers who objectify women in their music? Honestly, the people you’re yelling at didn’t even create the terminology, and they’re sure not going to be the ones to get rid of it.
So how about we all relax and ask this question, IF “The Booty Wall” is so awful, why have you never heard of it before now, and why haven’t the women who live in the Quad been speaking out about it sometime in the last 15 years?
The answer to that question is as much a Howardism as the booty wall itself- “It is not that serious.”
Now let’s move on.
“It’s a reality of Howard, people from the local area will drive by and observe the beautiful females sitting on the wall and try their luck. And honestly, what is wrong with a male trying to find a mate?”
That statement gave me the chills.
I think black women should reconsider attending such institutions. The world is wide and varied and it’s not healthy to isolate yourself on some all-black environment. The school seems to have outlived it’s usefulness. It seems to be more of danger than a help.
First, its appalling that al of these self-identified Howard students can’t read for comprehension. Clearly this post is criticizing the person leading the campaign against the paper while giving Omari a pass. We have a pattern of ignoring abuse within our own community while tripping over ourselves to critize White people who merely repeat what we said.
@Kristen of course you would feel objectified. For you to acknowlege that you fellow students view you as less than human would make you feel very vulnerable possibly angry. So you wisely have made the threat “DC Locals” as if class and a 3 ft wall will protect you. Just like you think locks on door and windows or 9-11 will protect you. We call that magical thinking ’round here.
Last but not least you imply that something is “no big deal” if the world hasn’t heard about it. Tell that to Dorothy Dixon, Ramona Moore, Ebony Dorsey, Dunbar Village, Daniyah Jackson and all the other Black women who find themselves on the receiving end of a mentality that causes Black people like you to minimize the dehumanization of Black women and girls.
I’d tell you to stop being the woman in the red dress, but that’s something only we old fogies in our 30’s would understand.
I meant “of course you would NOT feel objectified.”
“The school seems to have outlived it’s usefulness. It seems to be more of danger than a help.”
- I may be and old fogie myself and it has been some time since I have attended an HBCU. Sadly, I also know that the objectifying of woman, of black woman takes place on many college campus white and black.
I do get sick of statements and conclusions from those who never attended an HBCU, or who never participated or benefited from any “black institution” of any type informing folks that “those institutions have out lived there usefulness.”
The good news is that as long as Howard Univ. is still producing Dr’s, Lawyers, Business grads, Engineers and Scientist like every other fine white institution then it along with other HBCU’s are here to stay!!!
Another point I would make is I am sure that this whole dialog would be very welcome and is probably taking place on the campus of Howard since this article has been published.
Try that kind of open dialog at one of those fine non isolated white institutions and all you will hear is “why do just the blacks students get to have open dialogs, on the objectifying of black woman”, and “why do they have there own month, and why is there an Ebony magazine” and so on and so on.
To keep us on track, let me redirect y’all back ffrom condemning HBCUs for some kind of monopoly on objectifying and dehumanizing Black women. Its a trap I don’t want you to fall into.
I went to two PWIs. One public for undergrad and one private for professional school. We had common gathering places as well on campus, we just weren’t so ig’nant as to refer to them as a booty wall. TRUST that massive objectification took place.
@tusk actually White people would LOVE for us to have this dialog at a PWI. They’d probably give us lots of money to do it. Black folks talking about oppression within the group? PLUUUEEZ, I could probably fund an ENTIRE series on at a PWI. No questions asked. They probably wouldn’t attend, but they’d definitely fund the honorariums and snacks.
@ gem2001
Point well taken
No comment about the larger issue. But I am with you on the “females” thing.
For the record, people, female is an ADJECTIVE and not a noun. Therefore, it should only be used to define a noun. When my students say, “A female just walked past,” I say, “A female what? Human? Horse? Dinosaur?”
Language deserves respect.
I appreciated this posting because it demonstrated how misdirected some Black people who run Black media trying to pick a social cause fight really are.
Why did this lady sent out a PR Blast trying to attack Omari Evans for posting what he observed as campus culture? It appears to me she is more mad at seeing the bones she knew about fall out the closet and knowing Omari opened the door..as if Larry Libido never knew about the “Booty Wall” in the first place…
This whole topic about a “Booty Wall” on Howard is kinda naive – there are so called “Booty Walls” all over college campuses and around the world from females sitting on the sideline at the pickup basketball/soccer game to the corporate workplace where there is a sitting break area. For people at Howard to think their “Booty Wall” is unique and special is clearly naive to the rest of the world.
It’s crazy to think that expulsion could be mentioned as a fair recourse on a topic like this. Schools have made attempts at tempering the tongue of their “rogue” student journalists since the first college newspaper rolled off of the press.
It might be more strategic to make an attempt to understand Mr. Evan’s original intent in writing the “Booty Call” article instead of punishing him for taking a (PERHAPS) less than tactful approach to the topic. The verbage used to describe a location that nearly all campuses have was surely lost on older generations, however the audience the commentary was likely intended for surely picked up on the satirical tone.
While the fact that women everywhere are disproportionately objectified compared to their male counterparts requires serious examination, we should hardly hold Mr. Evans to the task of approaching every subject with Dan Rather-like seriousness. Mr. Evans is a very talented writer and if Howard makes the mistake of giving him “the boot”. You can bet, he’ll be writing for us the very next week!
Daniel C. Moss
President, http://www.HBCUconnect.com
dmoss@HBCUconnect.com
Dear Mr. Moss,
Obviously the obvious eludes you. No one with a functioning brain and reading comprehension skills believes that the little ingrate Omari Evans should, would or could be expelled from Howard University. The post was clearly directed at the woman who sent me this ridiculous email. If you noticed the post is entitled the WORST ACTIVISM EVER. One with a brain functioning with some modicum of higher thinking skills could conclude that a woman who can’t even draft a coherent email could hardly get Mr Evan’s expelled, not did she indicate any willingness to see him punished.
If you were familiar with this blog, you know I have absolutely NO CONFIDENCE that an institution such as Howard University would ever take any strong action to PUNISH students that objectify women. As your self-promoting comment so clearly indicates, the Black Elite Establishment and its institutions are far to quick to cover up, gloss over, marginalize and dismiss the objectification of Black women and girls, violence against Black women and girls, including the tortures rapes and killings of Black women and Girls.
But it is nice to know where HBCU Connect’s PRIORITIES ARE. You are the clearest indication that the Black communities institutions are SWIFT to come to the defense of any male who my theoretically be in peril while turning a blind eye to Black women and girls who are actually in peril.
Thank you for offering unimpeachable evidence of what we’ve been saying. By all means PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE hire Omari Evans. I beg you to, and send us a link when he comes on board. We’ll do some free promotion for you.
Readers,
Have you noticed the people rushing here to SAVE Omari Evans from a RHETORICAL QUESTION? DO you notice how Daniel C. Moss the President of HBCU Connect has dedicated himself to minimizing the objectification and degradation of Black women and girls by saying “it happens everywhere.” Can you imagine him minimizing the murders and incarcerations of BLACK MEN by saying “it happens everywhere”? Of course he wouldn’t.
I attend CSUDH, before CSUDH I attended Mount Saint Mary’s College, before that El Camino College. I’ve never heard of the “booty wall”; but just to prove the coochie hounds are right, I’ll double check to see if the “booty wall” exist.
Gem2001,
Do you also notice the REASON given, for why the “booty wall” becomes an accepted practice?
“The black male students at Howard are already outnumbered and can have literally two or three actual GIRLFRIENDS at a time. The gender dynamics on that campus (and at most HBCUs) leave the girls seeking attention from men OFF campus and those men tend to be unemployed or underemployed, no ambition, playas, etc. All looking to hook up with a striving young black woman in the hopes of meeting even more striving young black women.”
Then:
“SO many of the problems in the BC stem from too many women and too few men after the age of say 20.”
Thank you “reese”, you nailed it. At least the self-restricting/self-destructive part.
Yep, that “Nothin’ but a Brutha” sure helps out the individual A/A woman in her life, doesn’t it now.
Geez, sticking to that dwindling and ever increasingly toxic pool will be the death, literal and otherwise, of so many A/A women now.