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Thx Tereza. “I never got the impression that “the media” was even remotely interested in feedback from the young Black women hit, or from any other Black woman for that matter. The respondent faces of this controversy have been predominately male.”
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“I recently wrote about Daphne Wright, the Deaf black lesbian charged with a brutal murder in South Dakota. This week the jury found her guilty after eight hours of deliberation.”
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Thx Latoya. “ask whether media and society have too easily conflated them, bundling their individual cases in a convenient packaging that subtly evokes those hoary, oddly contradictory typecasts of the “model minority” whiz kid and invading “yellow peril.
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
Kay Olson wrote:
Hey, thanks for the link. Daphne Wright’s story is one I wish had gotten much wider attention for the implications on fair trials.
Posted 20 Apr 2007 at 5:24 pm ¶
S wrote:
Yeah, it seems as if the media, and sometimes people in general, go out of their way to exclude the input, ideas, and opinions of black women. Even when it’s ABOUT them, such as the case with the Rutgers women. Even in other heated discussions such as interracial dating and marriage, black women are TALKED ABOUT, but our opinion is rarely welcome, let alone a response to the things that are said about us. Books have been written, people have gone on talk shows talking about OUR poverty, OUR children out of wedlock (that we made all by ourselves), OUR loud mouths, and you rarely hear OUR side of the story. What are people scared of?
Posted 21 Apr 2007 at 3:05 pm ¶