WORST WAOD Reader Activism EVER!! Howard University "Booty Wall" Brou Ha ha

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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