Tagged: white women

“Women inevitably have to work a little bit harder to be heard. Hollywood is disgustingly sexist. It’s crazy. It’s so offensive it’s crazy.” — Kristen Stweart

If this major Hollywood actress, along with others like Meryl Streep and Patricia Arquette, are saying this industry is “disgustingly sexist,” how could it be hard to fathom that Hollywood is also “disgustingly” racist if majority of the decisionmakers and gatekeepers have historically been over-represented by those who classify themselves as white and/or “Jewish,” despite there being more than enough QUALIFIED African Americans and people of color in the job market? Do you think this is accidental or intentional? Statistically, it’s not “due to chance.”

Source: Harper’s Bazaar U.K.

“The A.C.L.U., she said, hopes to understand the specific barriers that keep women out and underemployed.”

They are actually concerned about Hollywood’s barriers effect white women — the biggest beneficiaries of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Why doesn’t the A.C.L.U. want to also understand the specific barriers that keep qualified African Americans and other people of color out of meaningful positions in Hollywood and un[der]employed.

Source: Manohla Dargis. “In Hollywood, It’s a Men’s, Men’s, Men’s World.” New York Times. December 24, 2014. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/movies/in-hollywood-its-a-mens-mens-mens-world.html.

NONE of the Council Members on the Judicial Council for the Second Circuit are African American.

Out of the council’s 13 members, 1 is a Hispanic male [Jose A. Cabranes]. The rest of the members are white [and two of the members have already been informed of my complaints regarding Republican appointed federal judge P. Kevin Castel]. Since the conversation of gender discrimination always seems to trump the conversation of racial discrimination in America, I think it’s important to note that 6 out of the 13 members on the council are white women. Do you think majority of those on this council care if a judge in their district is accused of violating the Constitution, the law, their Judicial Code of Conduct and their Oath of Office in civil rights cases challenging institutionalized and systemic forms of racism, if it’s to the benefit of those who classify themselves as white? This presents yet another uphill battle in the quest for [racial] justice in this racist country dominated and controlled by whites…especially when the last Order rendered by this group was on June 20, 2013 and it was regarding the “questionable travel reimbursement requests” of Circuit Judge Boyce R. Martin of the Sixth Circuit. Just imagine all of the complaints that are being whitewashed. Smh!

Source: http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/judges/judicial_council.html.