As an alternate move, Boarman appointed Davita Vance-Cooks to the role of Deputy Public Printer on December 20th. This ensures that the agency has some sort of capable leadership in place upon Boarman’s departure.

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via New Year Brings Black Leadership For Government Printing Office | Political News and Opinion from a Multicultural Point of View.

African-American Actresses Decry the Lack of Good Roles – The Daily Beast.

GOPers Scramble to Change Alabama's Immigration Law After White People Are Inconvenienced | AlterNet.

The Huff Post quotes a study that states that hefty black women with high self esteem have serious issues. They are too crazy to loose weight. The comments on how disgusting black women are compared to white women are numerous. Poor black women live in communities bereft of healthy food alternatives. Black women are expected to care more for others than themselves. Black female obesity is also correlated with histories of depression & sexual abuse. Instead of investgating these confounding factors, it is so much easier to label black women as defective.

What Tami Said:

Bloomberg administration’s relentlessly enforced mass criminalization of minority neighborhoods — the shocking, obsessive and official brutalization of black women in New York City.Many “charges” that could easily be handled with a summons or desk ticket now impose an arrest that demands arraignment and “processing” through New York’s criminal “justice” system. The number of misdemeanor arrests rose from 353,649 in 2005 to 391,892 in 2010; for its minority citizens, New York City’s having the lowest crime rates in decades just meant that more pretexts would be found to arrest more of them.

Whatever the claimed reasons for arrests, the salient lesson of passage through New York City’s utterly filthy lock-ups and holding cells is that the constant seizure, routinely unprovoked, of black women on New York City streets is now absolute policy. There is no way to have some 400,000 “good,” justified arrests a year in any event and when that amount of police action is focused on selected neighborhoods there is no way to stay out of its path. The mother dashing next door to retrieve a teen who hasn’t come home on time, the housewife out buying a cake for dinner, even the young working woman asleep at home in her bed — all are subject to seizure any time, and they will mostly be black almost all the time.

via Photo exhibit with artful focus on women writers – NY Daily News.

Do you know what is wrong with the black community? Black women. Although black women did not institute the crack:cocaine drug policy, did not create deindustrialization,we did not create predatory lending & ghetto loans, did not create the backlash against affirmative action, did not create Federal Housing Adminstration policy of redlining and devaluing black property, we did not create the banking crisis of that 1980′s that ended the black banking system, yet we are the cause of the breakdown of the black family and community according to Nojma Muhammad.

According to Ms. Muhammad we need to get down on our knees and beg forgiveness for our independent ways, for not putting the needs and desires of black men first and most importantly thinking that our reproductive organs are our own property. If Ms. Muhammad wants to live her life this way then more power to her, but if she thinks that wholesale prostration to black men will do a damn thing but give a sister rug burn, she is sadly mistaken. She fails to take into account that black women have some the highest rates of rape & sexual abuse in this country, we earn less and we are incarcerated more than other women in this country. Will apologizing to the baby daddy who has three other baby mamma instantly make him into a exemplary parent and provider? Will saying “I’m sorry, brother” stop the misogynist trend in black male popular culture? Will going up to random men on the street and offering them you womb stop the almost three times rate of out-marriage? Will prostrating in perpetuity stop the rates of domestic violence in our community? I would venture to guess HELLS NO! The churches & mosques are filled with single black women willing to submit to black men.

Black men need to work on themselves & find a semblance of manhood that does not involve degrading and defaming black women and using that as excuse to continue bad behavior. Here is my challenge to black men start fighting the systemic racism that plagues our community, fight to get education, employment, fairness in criminal justice and political system and stop blaming your status in this country on us! Maybe then we can discuss this so called “reconciliation.”

via The 10 Worst Stereotypes About Powerful Women – Forbes.