I didn't get it until I watched the "making of" video.

How cool is that? 

Notice, not a single woman or person of color in the behind the scenes video. Happy Friday!

Gina McCauley, founder of the black women's advocacy blog What About Our Daughters, believes that the publishing of this video on XXL.com is part of a misogynist agenda of the media entity. McCauley told theGrio that, "In 2007, my readers had to call on advertisers to pull ads from XXL.com when they referred to a black mother who'd been the victim of a brutal gang rape in West Palm Beach Florida as 'some hooker down in Florida.'" She also noted that demeaning attitudes and sexual violence directed at black women and girls is seen as acceptable by too many blacks.

"People will want to point to XXL as an aberration, but misogyny and sexual violence committed against young black girls is normalized in far too many black communities," McCauley continued in an email. She recalled a prominent case that was recently in the news in which an 11-year-old girl in Cleveland, Texas was gang raped -- then accused by her community of somehow provoking their attackers.

God has me on a whole other path right now, and I can't be bothered. I said, I can't be bothered to even invest the energy in outrage. Any day now, Dr. Boyce Watkins will be penning an editorial about this foolishness being a "teachable" moment.  ESSENCE will be conducting a reader poll and NPR will get a roundtable of bougie Black folks and misogynists  to talk about why this is all young Black girl's fault. We've already got the requisite useless email petition to sociopaths. Check, check, check. I'll file this one right next to the one asking Debra Lee of BET to "rescue The Game."Stop blowing up my email with stupid email petitions which are about as effective as petitioning Satan to shutter Hell. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. 

It took the bottom dwelling,  side winding, fork tongued, demonnette, psychopath  almost a week, but Vanessa Satten the publisher of XXL magazine finally responded to posting pedophile-esq suggestions from Too Short about how to sexually coerce middle school girls.   From the Grio

 Vanessa Satten, XXL Editor-in-Chief, has responded to theGrio with the statement: "I agree with [angry readers'] perspective. I do not see all content before it goes live. When I saw this video, I was truly offended and thought it crossed the line. I had it taken down immediately. I am disappointed that an employee decided to post it and I am putting internal procedures in place to make sure content like this does not go on the site. The video goes against my value system and represents poor judgment on behalf of the individual who posted it."

 If Ms. Satten were truly outraged, she would have responded immediately. Please don't be fooled Vanessa Satten and everyone who works at XXL HATE Black women and girls. You didn't need their publication of Too Short's techniques for assaulting very young girls to convince you of this.  

My blogging days are numbered and my retirement is imminent, but I thought I would remind you about my cybercrusading philosophy AGAINST asking Black-oriented entertainment vehicles to stop dehumanizing and abusing Black girls.  Would you write a petition to the Klan asking them to treat Black people better? NO, you march against, prosecute, sue and any number of tactics, but you would never treat the Klan as if it had any morality.

Black women will never be safe by asking people to treat us right or trying to make people feel sorry for us. We're not human to them so these people don't feel one bit of guilt about what they are doing. They are embarrassed because the story bled over into the mainstream and Ms Satten wants to keep getting invites to dinner parties in New York.

So no, I will not be launching a campaign against XXL magazine. Read my archives if you want to relive the dream. 

XXL Magazine calls Dunbar Village Victim "some hooker down in Florida"

Black Women, That Burning Cross on Your Front Lawn Was Brought to You By .......Corporate America

Power Speaks to Power. It's Time Black Women Reclaimed Ours-New Balance, Disney, State Farm Weigh IN

Good luck with that!

25 women who didn’t know each other simultaneously proclaiming to the world that they wouldn’t mind if a man beat them to the pulp. These women didn't hatch out of eggs, they had to develop this attitude from somewhere. 

The response on the WAOD Facebook Fan Page was swift- most comments,however, were dejected. Some even went into  how feminism/the women's rights movement “failed.” *eye roll*  As if the fight for equalityand the battled agains misogyny is a NASCAR race that ends with the waving of a checked flag.

 “Well that’s a relief we’re equal now!” 

“What? We aren’t?”

“ We have to keep running the same race... forever? Oh nooooz! ”

Most were laments that these women would express these thoughts publicly.  I feel the exact opposite. 

For the same reason that I occasionally let cyber trolls post in the comments, I think it is important to remind readers on a regular basis that there IS an opposition. There is an enemy. That just because all you do is read blogs and post comments doesn’t mean that the opposition is staying home knitting booties.  That just because you found a group of emancipated women in a virtual world doesn’t mean you don’t have to navigate a larger world filled with people who celebrate, profit from, delight in marginalizing, exploitating, and dehumanizing  women and girls.

About the Chris Brown fans and openly mocking the seriousness of domestic violence - emancipated Black women should thank them. Yes, I said THANK THEM!

I started this blog for selfish reasons. I knew what is coming and I wanted my conscience to be clear.  20 years from now, I’ll know that I tried to do something other than whine and wring my hands. Earth shattering stuff? Maybe not, but it was more than gawking from the sidelines with worry.

Any student of history can see what future awaits for Black women and girls in this country. If you need a crystal ball, look at countries where “emasculated” men demonstrate their manhood but chopping and shooting each other to smithereens and then brutally assaulting the women and children left behind. Or those peace-filled regions of the world where  societies that come up with a million reasons why the men behave the way they behave.... other than, because THEY ARE ALLOWED TO BEHAVE THAT WAY!  Look at societies where the women and girls have no “value.” Ghastly!

Any fool who is looking can see the parallels in far too many Black communities in this country. And we also can see when the elites benefit from the carnage and chaos of these conquered and defeated quarters of society with rampant sexism and misogyny.  Its gory and that’s what your daughters and granddaughters are going to face in THIS country. Heck many of them are already facing these living conditions.  The future is now. 

This weekend while the GRAMMYS were airing, 9 people at a local apartment complex were taken to the hospital. They were sick from carbon monoxide poisoning.  EMS suspects that the recent bout of cold weather caused them to turn on heating elements that were unsafe. The reason 9 people didn’t die from an odorless, colorless  gas is that three of the nine were children.  Because they were so small, the gas impacted them faster and they passed out- just like canaries in a mineshaft.

Some of you appear to hate to be reminded that in the War on Black Women you have a very REAL enemy and there are very real consequences for the attitudes this community has about women and girls. You keep wanting to write these repulsive people off as crazy or stupid.  You try to marginalize threats. I haven’t be talking about theory for almost 5 years.  Yes, many of the atrocities I’ve written about have been the results of the acts of a tiny group of people, but there was a community that nurtured and in far too many cases coddled. The attitudes of these communities towards the treatment of women and girls nurtured the predatory thinking and denied protection to victims. It is happening right now. Somewhere right now, a group of women in real life is trying to convince a woman or girl that it is perfectly permissible for her “man” to beat the living snot out of her. They are trivializing the abuse and providing arguments for why she should stay.  

These 25 repulsive women are your cultural monoxide monitors. Just because you can’t see the caustic and deadly effects of sexism and misogyny in your life on a daily basis, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist and it doesn’t mean that it won’t kill you.  Girls aren’t going to learn self respect and self worth by osmosis.  They aren’t going to learn about appropriate interpersonal relationships with boys via lightening strike. There isn’t a dignity, self respect, and personal boundaries fairy!

Let me repeat: THERE IS NO DIGNITY, SELF RESPECT and PERSONAL BOUNDARIES FAIRY!

All of you expecting girls to get these things magically are ..... FOOLS! 

Women like Chris Brown 25 Repulsive fans have no problem expressing their opinions and normalizing brutality against other women. Chastising and lamenting them isn’t enough. They must be confronted, rebuked, shamed and yes, BEATEN BACK.  Chris Brown will fight for no reason at all. - you have a reason to fight--- the lives of future generations of Black girls.

When was the last time you had a conversation with your daughters (and sons) about violence against women and girls? Probably  not since the year 200(NEVER).  So stop whining. It’s irritating and useless. Yes, y’all got on my nerves with your passivity and helplessness. 

Chris Brown’s repulsive fans have sent you a very clear warning. You need to decide if you’re going to put your daughters and sons in a hypobaric chamber filled with the oxygen of your truth and YOUR VALUES or if you are going to roll up into a ball and die on the floor. If you choose to roll up in a ball and die, please roll to your left so as not to impede the exit of people who want to live.

Because that’s what it comes down to - Chris Brown’s  repulsive fans emitted their poison are you going to plug the leak or let them take out more women and girls?

I'm cross posting this from the Facebook fan page. I just heard that she passed on Facebook and I thought it was another social media hoax. But its not. Such a waste. DAYUM!

More than Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston defined by youth. I think I own every album. Know the words to every song. When I hydroplaned and slammed into a highway guardrail, I was listening to the Preacher's Wife soundtrack. 

This is just crazy! 48 years old. 

Miraculously or suspiciously, this interview of Terrance Howard and David Oyelowo talking about interracial relationships in Red Tails got buried in the lead up to the film.  First, I'm pro marriage freedom. Marry who you like. But when you basically say that marrying or having sex with a White woman symbolizes "freedom" and progress what does that say about having relationships with Black women?  Yeah, he said it. No, sadly, I'm not exaggerating. 

 All of this hullabaloo over "interracial relationships" is a cheap distraction. This issue isn't marriage and relationships, the issue is CASTING. Why did the Red Tails team GO. OUT. Of. THEIR WAY to avoid casting Black women? And for the Black women that were cast, why were they cut? This is an issue about employment opportunities and quite frankly discrimination by a team that were promoting a movie about the immorality of racial discrimination. If racial discrimination against Black pilots was immoral for the US military, why isn't it equally IMMORAL for the director and writers of Red Tails? Why isn't it equally IMMORAL for these two Black actors to justify the discrimination with a ridiculous answer. And to all of the women saying that there are not women in war movies...  

Did you notice the women in the movie? The mother and the wife. And here's the trailer for Pearl Harbor: Did you notice the women in the movie? Mothers, wives, children. And here is the trailer for The Patriot.. notice anything?

Yeah, in other words in addition to being delusional, you're also liars.

I was going to talk about the vile abuse Black women have endured this week for asking legitimate questions about casting decisions which purportedly left Black women completely out of a movie they've been asked to subsidize, but the most "Viral" post of the week on the WAOD Facebook Fan Page was not about Black women missing from Red Tails, but Black women missing from their families and friends because they've likely been kidnapped or killed. So I decided to use all of the attention we've received as a result of the VORTEX of STUPID to talk about the issue that was MOST important to you this week. 

The Black and Missing Foundation is working with TV One to air a television series called Finding Our Missing hosted by S. Epatha Merkerson. 

 A quarter of a million people of color are missing in this country- that's over 40% of all missing persons.  A British newspaper is reporting that 64,000 Black women are missing in this country.

Those missing women include:

Sharnecia Monique Frazier

Shelia Hughes

Shandell McLeod

Sharon Davis

Tilawna Cheatham

Latoria Renae McClarin

Arnika Miller

Asia Nicole Martin

Ashani Creighton

Sharaun Cole

Phoenix Coldon

Stacey English

Visit their website to find out more about the Black and Missing Foundation. Kudos to Cathy Hughes and TV One. 

In some ways you have to feel sorry for Mr. Paula Patton. He was hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray by the male-identified women working at your favorite publication and mine, ESSENCE magazine.]]>http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/waod/rss-comments-entry-14302241.xmlRed tailsThe BlogmotherMon, 16 Jan 2012 12:00:53 +0000http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/waod/2012/1/16/noncooperation-with-evil-is-as-much-a-moral-obligation-as-co.html636899:7408065:14597423Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. As is tradition around here, we go hunting in search of footage of Dr. King beyond the "I have a Dream" soundbyte that will run all day today. 

This video is of an interview where Dr. king explains that non-violent RESISTANCE is the most powerful weapon.   That message has been coopted and defanged by the Black Elite Establishment where the order of the day is compromise, passivity, and going with the flow. 

This would explain why so many Black people are having a conniption fit with this blog because we asked people to explain why Black women should go see the movie Red Tails when there are no Black women in the movie. Yes, I figured out a way to tie in the movie Red Tails and Martin Luther King- that's why they pay me the big bucks 'roudn here. 

We have been told to sit down, shut up, and fork over our dollars to a group of men who created a movie to intentionally exclude Black women from what they purport to be a representation of American history. Mind you there has never been a war movie of late, where the wives, daughters, sisters, or mothers of the soldiers in the movie don't at least appear by photograph.

The easiest thing in the world would be for Black women to acquiesce. To ignore these ridiculous slights. To be silent and go along to get along, less we be called bitter angry $#&*^es.  But what has that gotten us? if anything this whole Red Tails debacle demonstrates the visceral hatred some Black men and women have for Black women.  If me not going to  see a movie where people who look like me are excluded will cause you to call me out of my name, then heaven help us if I start demanding more tangible things like the right to travel freely without harassment.

So be strong my contrarian brothers and sisters. The next time the Black Thought Police tell you to roll over and play dead. Tell them no thanks. Tell them that  Dr. King said that you are morally obligated NOT to cooperate with their stupidity and cowardice. 

I haven't seen one freeze frame of a Black woman in any previews. If they are in the movie, its is a highly kept secret. The only woman that is mentioned as semi-main  character is Sofia... and she's Portuguese. 

I've asked the @Redtailsmovie Twitter account repeatedly with a simple question "Are there any Black women in this movie?" Apparently not. 

Anywhoo, just when I was feeling some kinda way about there being no Black actresses being featured in the movie, they release a super long trailer which has caused the $7 I might have spent on matinee firmly back into my wallet. 

RT Clip from Tambay Obenson on Vimeo.

Is it just me or is this DREADFUL? Just. Just. DREADFUL. I'd rather watch a documentary on the Tuskegee Airmen than listen to Terence Howard perform a 14 minute soliloquy. And NO, I don't care about WWI CGI-generated dog fights. Was Denzel Washington busy? 

Over at beyond Black and White there is a discussion about George Lucas dating the incomparable Melody Hobson.  

They link to an interview in USA Today where George Lucas discusses the intention behind making the movie:

"I have only one agenda, and that's for a lot of young people to see this movie," says Lucas, who adds that corporations already have signed on to sponsor screenings at schools. "I think kids who see this, be they black or white, will walk out thinking (the Airmen) were cool." USA Today

Yes! Yes! The Tuskegee Airmen WERE COOL! So why the heck does the movie appear to make them joyless?
Show of hands for those of you who had Grandfathers or Great Uncles who were combat veterans. When they DID talk about war , were you ever BORED?NO! So the fact that this 7 minute trailer nearly put me to sleep demonstrates that you have to WORK to make a war movie look like a snooze fest. 

 I'd rather sit through 14 minutes of Harriet Tubman giving a soliloquy than Terrance Howard. 

So the floor is open, give me a reason to go see this movie other than... if Black folks don't pack the theaters they ain't gone EVER make another movie featuring Black people ever again! Convince me!

How oh how did I manage to miss last year's sensation, "An Open Letter of Apology to Black Men in Hopes of Reconciliation" by Nojma Muhammad?

Can't see the video, no worries, I'm reposting the entire open letter below.  I'm reprinting the entire letter  instead of an excerpt because  I'm assuming that she wants as many thirsty single men as possible to see her advertisement for a relinquished womb. No, "relinquishing" the "womb" are her words, not my own. The original letter posted over at ThyBlackMan.com. Thy Black Man  must be a serious publication because Dr. Boyce Watkins is involved *respectfulgiggle* Alrighty and now for the "Open Letter":

I have become a woman that you no longer recognize.  I have allowed our enemy to impregnate me with his ideas and thoughts. I have allowed an illusion of independence to keep us separated. I have fooled myself into believing that my degrees places me degrees above you. 

I humbly come to you asking forgiveness. I come to you asking you to forgive me for not supporting you. I come to you asking you to forgive me for not truly loving you. I was taught to hate myself, then hate you. My desire to reproduce you was killed by our enemy. I apologize for teaching my daughters that you will fail them, and continuning the cycle of an illusion of indepedence with them. I apologize for not encouraging you, for not being more patient with you, for not understanding your plight, your trials and your tribulations. 

I apologize for thinking in order to gain strength I had to weaken you. I apologize for disturbing your peace, in order to have peace within myself, or what I thought was peace. My life has been in peril without you. I tried to convince myself that I don’t need you, but you are a necessity. I can’t even continue the cycle of life without you. I apologize for my harsh tone, for using my tongue as a sword, for telling you that you are nothing, when in fact you are everything. 

I apologize for mistreating you, disrespecting you, neglecting you and belittling you. I know that I have aided in breaking you, and I am beneficial in rebuilding you. I am acknowleding the wrongs that I have committed against you,and I am confessing my faults. By acknowledging my wrongs, doesn’t mean I am absolving you of your duty, but rather I am re-committing myself to my duty to you. 

I have relinquished my womb from our enemy and I am returning it to it’s rightful owner; you.

I tried to walk this journey of life without you, but I realized that I should be walking this journey with you, and beside you.I pray that you accept my sincere apology, and that we can start the process of reconciliation, so we can love each other and have productive and successful relationships that will set the standard for our children.

Black Man……….I love you…..

Signed,
A Black Woman who concedes that her womb was one of many…….

 

Some thoughts:

• First, you CAN'T "relinquish" FROM. You can only relinquish TO. So I don't know what form of womb relinquishment she's practicing, but I'm pretty sure this is not physically possible for a number of reasons. This is just the improper procedure for womb relinquishment. Even if its metaphysical womb relinquishment. 'understandwhatimsaying?
• Who wants a random apology? No seriously. If you really want to hear an apology do you want some scattershot long and rambling apology about generalized grievances? You want some impersonal apology of dubious origin?
• Who wants to reconcile with random men who you claim are broken? I don't need to "reconcile" with random Black men. I didn't do anything to them! ThankYouVeryMuch! 
• This is patronizing to Black men. Nojma clearly thinks Black men are "less than" and she's "greater than." I hold the radical belief that WE'RE EQUAL.  Only the most pathetic men on planet Earth want to be with women who think that men are helpless. The men she described in this open letter are pathetic by her own description. They have absolutely no responsibility for their own destiny. No self determination. The men she's describes just wander around like children with no free will. What man wants to be treated as if he's incapable of doing anything?
• Black WOMEN are the ones that have been trashed bashed and defamed for profit and power by Black men. if anybody is going to be getting an apology, it should be US!

As I stated, this is clearly a desperate woman who wants a man, any man, to pay her a bit of attention and I say the sooner the better before she gets it into her head to write a book or something about improper womb relinquishment and we end up with a generation of Black girls relinquishing their wombs.

Young Black girls, your womb is not relinquishable. Remember that!

Stay in school kids and pay attention in English class when they start talking about prepositions. Those prepositions may be tiny... but they are POWERFUL! 

There is nothing revelatory about the piece other than giving voice to many of the things we've said at this blog for years. We have very little sympathy for Black women and girls in this country who are the victims of violent crime. By WE, I mean Black women and girls who have little or no sympathy for others. Its a bizarre omnipotent narcissism that says that we can control the world and everything in it so if some OTHER woman or girl is the victim of violent crime, she must have done something wrong.

Previous Chris Brown Coverage:

The Tracks of Chris Brown's Tears: Redemption Via Musical Selection

Chris Brown Cry me a River Week Concludes: He Will Re-Offend

Why I'm Not Blogging About Rihanna and Chris Brown: Open Thread

Jennifer Hudson Speaks About Her Family on Her Own Terms- ChrisBrown Cries on Demand-BET Exec "You Can't Let a Black Man Fall."

Satan Says Chris Brown NOT Posessed By "The Devil"?:Doesn't Remember Beating the Hell Out of Rihanna

Rihanna Photo Release Terrible Invasion of Her Privacy-ChrisBrown's Career NOT Over

In conclusion, Chris Brown is 100% responsible for punching, kicking, and biting Rihanna and then abandoning her on the side of a dark street in LA to fend for herself while he and his enterouge sped off. He didn't learn a thing from "anger management" because just last year he went crazy on the set of Good Morning America and tore up their set. He will beat up another woman or girl in the future. 

As is tradition, tomorrow, November 1st, marks the begginning of National Novel Writing Month Nanowrimo.  Its important for the Black women who read this blog to be creative and tell their own stories. I think its safe to say that if we don't tell our own stories, no one will. 

I've complete Nanowrimo two years ago. Since then I've done the screenwriting version of Nanowrimo,  Script Frenzy, in April twice. Now I'm in the final weeks of completing my first formal screenwriting course.

If you've always wanted to write a novel, Nanowrimo helps you get past one of the biggest hurdles, writing when you don't want to.  Goog luck on Nanowrimo! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

While the blog is "on holiday" you can still:

• Join us over at the WAOD Facebook Fan page.
• Enjoy the Archives.
• Hit the donate button in the righhand sidebar.
• Sign up for a Telecourse over at Blogging While Brown.
• OR for coaching/consulting sessions.
• Check 2012 availability for speaking engagements. 

Make 2012 an EPIC year for you and yours. Live life on purpose.  Fail as much as possible. Lean into your destiny!

In what only can be described as a very public rebuke of one of most powerful Black radio personalities in the country, Allstate, a major sponsor of Tom Joyner stated publicly that it does not trust Mr. Joyner's judgement. After Mr. Joyner invited Genarlow Wilson, a man convicted of aggravated child molestation,  to be a speaker at the Allstate Tom Joyner Family Reunion, concerned women and men from around the country alerted Allstate to Mr. Wilson's past, including recording himself and five of his friends having sexual intercourse with an unconscious 17-year-old girl in a hotel room in Georgia and coercing a 15 year old  girl into performing non- consensual oral sex on Mr. Wilson and his five friends. Clearly shocked and horrified that Tom Joyner would invite someone with Mr. Wilson's criminal past to speak at a "family" event which enticed young children to attend, Allstate took the extraordinary step of implementing a company-wide sponsorship policy which now requires organizers to submit a list of speakers to Allstate prior to the event so that Allstate can check their background in advance. It is a stinging public rebuke of the Tom Joyner, the insurance giant signalled that it no longer believed Tom Joyner or his staff were competent enough to make programming decisions without Allstate's oversight. - The Blogmother

Now THAT is the story of the past two weeks on this blog. 

I want to thank each and every one of you who took time to call, email or write Allstate to express your concern that convicted sexual predator, Genarlow Wilson was being marketed to children who attended the Allstate Tom Joyner Family Reunion in September 2011.

Sure, Allstate issued contradictory public statements that reeeked of cowardice and hypocrisy on the issue of violence against women. But the one thing that was consistent was their announcement of a new policy which would require Tom Joyner to submit a speaker list to Allstate prior to an event. Assuming they keep their word and aren't lying, this has to BUUUUUUUUURN the chaps of the Genarlow Wilson and rape culture apologists in the Tom Joyner organization. 

Now some of you may be disappointed that Allstate didn't issue a more emphatic public statement of rebuke. Heck, I was mildly irritated by their cowardly, weasely attempt to slither away from seriousness of what occurred. I'm equally appalled that in the middle of a month dedicated to raising awareness of domestic violence, Allstate, which runs something called the Purple Purse Project, would tell us that two weeks after many of you first alerted them to Mr. Wilson's criminal past, they still don't know the facts of a case that has reached final adjudication in the highest court of the State of Georgia. This means that any one of the hundreds of lawyers at Allstate could have merely done a Lexis or Westlaw search for "Genarlow Wilson" and all of the court decisions containing a summary of the facts in his case would have popped up within seconds. So for them to say they don't know the facts is a lie. Of course they know the unsavory facts about Mr. Wilson, but to acknowledge them would make Tom Joyner look worse than he already does. But I digress.

You accomplished A-LOT this week.

1. You sent a signal to Genarlow Wilson that his attempts to enter the  "mainstream" by associating himself with corporate brands WILL. .BE. RESISTED. If you don't think he got the message, go read Mr. Wilson's whiney tweets over the last week. 

2. You got a massive organization to initiate a new policy to screen speakers at sponsored events. THAT'S HUGE. Big organizations don't enact policy on a dime.  

3. The creation of the "Genarlow Wilson" policy is validation that they think Tom Joyner damaged their brand and they have to protect it from him. THAT'S HUGE.

4. Somebody in the Allstate organization had their supervisor walk into their office this week and ask them "Um did you sign off on putting Allstate's name on this event featuring a convicted sexual predator? What the $*#&^ were you thinking????" 

5. You've made Genarlow Wilson radioactive to any future consumer goods company. If he pursues a partnership, he does so knowing that he is placing their brand at stake so they'll be doubly ticked off when we come calling.

6. For the first time in history, someone held Tom Joyner and the Black Elite Establishment accountable for hoisting Genarlow Wilson on their shoulders and parading him through the streets as a hero for  brutally violating two Black girls in that hotel room in Georgia. 

7. You also sent a message to Mr. Wilson that his planned path as a youth speaker entering the public schools of America to gain access to captive audiences of impressionable young children will be met with resistance.

Did you get everything you wanted? No. But what you accomplished was pretty amazing.  Can more be done? Absolutely. But pause for a moment to realize that you just made Goliath bleed. Tom Joyner thinks he can act with impunity and tap dance over the bodies of young Black girls, this week you (and Allstate) told him NO! he can't be pleased. 

WOW in less than 24 hours, they've done a 180 and completely changed the tone of their form emails. The emails went from "We're sorry. this won't happen again." To "It never happened, we don't know what y'all are talking about." Here is a portion of the latest email from Allstate. 

"The characterization of Allstate is inaccurate. While Allstate does not have all of the facts in regards to the Genarlow Wilson case, we do not agree with sexual abuse of children or violence against women. " 

Mind you this is the COMPLETE opposite of the sentiment expressed to me by Dianna from the executive customer service team when she finally returned my call. This change in tone might have something to do with a newspaper starting to ask questions.

You advertise a family event. Slap your name on it and then put on a man convicted of Aggravated Sexual Assault. Willfully IGNORE the criminal and immoral history of a speaker at your TITLE event and when people call you on it, THEY are inaccurate?

This is completely different from the mass email they sent out yesterday.  

Just when I was ready to stick a fork in it and close the book on this Allstate matter, they go with the "We were misrepresented" excuse instead of just saying "We're sorry. Won't happen again."

And I was about to write the Allstate CEO a thank you note. Instead they are going on THE LIST!