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By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. December 24, 2014 | Photographic Source; For Harriet I have a deep-seated resentment of White parents who specifically hire Black immigrant women or people of color as nannies. Whenever I go to the park or take a stroll [...]
“ You fucking stupid bitch,” a man screamed followed by the slam of a car door. Feet thumped and the passenger door swung open. The incoherent pleas of a woman could be heard. Then the loud sound of skin making contact with skin reverberated through [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. October 31, 2014 Dear Hollaback & Rob Bliss Creative, I have watched your collaborative video depicting the menacing street harassment of a young, white woman as she casually walked through the streets of New York. You captured dozens [...]
When riots broke out after citizens of Ferguson took to the streets to protest the murder of Mike Brown by a police officer, the media was littered with imagery and stories of violent and savage Black people destroying the city. To a large extent, those [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. October 15, 2014 In case you are unaware, there is something called “The Whiteness Project.” Per the website, the project, from documentary director Whitney Dow, is “a multiplatform investigation into how Americans who identify as ‘white’ experience their [...]
When We Ignore or Excuse Street Harassment, Could That Be a Crime?Complicity? Duplicity? What Do We See? We see people defend their own kind. It happens all the time – out on the streets, in classrooms, in cyberspace, in facebook posts, blogs, and tweets. Our locker rooms [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. October 6, 2014 Politically and socially, the most powerful demographic, with the exception of White men, is White women. Though still underrepresented in key economic and power positions, White women enjoy numerous social benefits, maintain political power as [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. September 22, 2014 12:43 PM EDT I think I may have had a small mental break down last week. I knew it was coming, I was all tight with emotion after some of the responses I received on [...]
Dear PS 220 White Teachers Who Wore NYPD T-Shirts To School... It must have seemed like a fantastic idea when, despite warnings from the United Federation of Teachers, you all donned NYPD shirts and crowded in front of a camera for a smirking group [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at Clutch Magazine. September 2, 2014 It makes sense that White people use completely illogical arguments to derail conversations about racism, because the current racial hierarchy reinforces White dominance and “White privilege”– so they benefit from it. What makes absolutely no [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at Clutch Magazine. July 29, 2014 Since the post Civil Rights Era, the Black community has largely abandoned its collective struggle against continued racism and discrimination. Gone are the demands for justice and an end to inequality. They have been replaced [...]
