#MeToo rose to prominence as a social media campaign in the wake of high-profile accusations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. After actress Alyssa Milano popularized the hashtag, thousands of women began sharing their stories about the pervasive damage wrought by sexual harassment and by "open secrets" about abuse.
The movement's empowering reach could be seen in the platform on which Time announced its choice: the Today show. It was just one week ago that NBC fired the morning program's longtime and powerful co-host, Matt Lauer, over a detailed complaint of "inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace."
While the most high-profile #MeToo stories have come from women and men who work in the movies and media, the Time article also features women who work hourly jobs, some of whom want to remain anonymous. The magazine's cover portrait includes strawberry picker Isabel Pascual, lobbyist Adama Iwu and former Uber engineer Susan Fowler along with Ashley Judd and Taylor Swift.
"The reckoning appears to have sprung up overnight. But it has actually been simmering for years, decades, centuries," Time's Stephanie Zacharek, Eliana Dockterman and Haley Sweetland Edwards write. "Women have had it with bosses and coworkers who not only cross boundaries but don't even seem to know that boundaries exist."
Actually when you think about it, and take into consideration how effective this movement has become, it would be an injustice to have given this honor to anybody else.
And that includes Donald Trump who, while he certainly has had a massive impact on the world, has been overshadowed by this movement which some day may even claim his wild unkempt mane among the scalps that it takes.
Speaking of Donald Trump's disappointment he will surely not be terribly happy that another foe of his was also honored recently.
Courtesy of Sports Illustrated:
After he accepted Sports Illustrated's Muhammad Ali Legacy Award, former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick said he will continue combating racial injustice in America whether or not he returns to the NFL.
"I say this as a person who receives credit for using my platform to protest systemic oppression, racialized injustice and and the dire consequences of anti-blackness in America," Kaepernick said at SI's Sportsperson of the Year ceremony at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
"I accept this award not for myself, but on behalf of the people. Because if it were not for my love of the people, I would not have protested. And if it was not for the support from the people, I would not be on this stage today.
"With our without the NFL's platform, I will continue to work for the people because my platform is the people."
Yeah, Trump's Twitter fingers must be aching to respond to all of this.
FB1"Sometimes a moment in life grabs you. Sometimes the emotions well up, the eyes mist, and the brain is consumed in thought. Yesterday was one of those times. Of all the stories I have shared on Facebook, this one is perhaps the most personal. I hope you take the time to read it and share it. The pictures I am including, which I will explain, are ones I will always cherish.
ReplyDeleteI am in Los Angeles and I stopped by yesterday for the wonderful Tavis Smiley program. As I arrived, I was in for a jolt. I found out that the photographer on the program, Van Evers, was the son of slain Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers and the makeup artist Sheila Evers was Medgar Evers's niece.
I am honored to say that I knew Medgar Evers, and covering his courageous fight for voting rights in an unjust America. If anyone doubts the dangers of stirring racial hate, if anyone wonders about the cost of injustice, if anyone wants to know what sacrifice for honor looks like, if anyone wants to consider the full devotion of courage, talk for a moment to Van Evers, who lost his father when he was only 2 years old.
I wanted to share with you an excerpt about Medgar Evers from my recent book. I hope his name can shine forth once more as a beacon for justice. It comes from the chapter on The Vote, which is as resonant today as it ever was.
"...among the African Americans I met, particularly the pastors, one name kept coming up from the start: I needed to meet Mr. Evers. Medgar Evers.
I remember meeting Evers for the first time, and if you were a fair judge of character, you couldn’t help but be impressed. He would look you squarely in the eye when he spoke. But more than that, he was determined to bring your attention to the issue that occupied his entire being — the right to vote. Once again, I was slow to completely appreciate the importance of his particular cause, until I joined him one Election Day at a polling place on the outskirts of Jackson where African Americans were not allowed to vote. Evers and a group of black voters showed up with their papers. As they approached the white voting official at the door, some in the group seemed to tremble, understandably. Not Evers. I learned later that he had done this many times before." Part 2 next Dan the man Rather
Part 2 Dan Rather>"What proceeded was a simple morality play, but one that shaped me as much or more than almost any other event in my lifetime. The voting official said, “What you doing here, boy?” And Evers politely responded that he had come with these fine people to vote. “You aren’t voting today, you aren’t voting any day,” came the reply. The words on the page cannot do any justice to the terror and violence in the voice. Evers explained that they had all their papers and were registered, knowing full well the response. “Well, I’m telling you,” the official answered, “they ain’t gonna vote.”
ReplyDeleteThe brazenness of a white election official tossing aside the constitutional right of enfranchisement, a right that entered the Constitution only after the Civil War, our bloodiest conflict, made me seethe with anger.
This was not America as I had envisioned it. And I wanted my countrymen and women to know this too. I felt a great certainty in the separation of right from wrong. My relationship with my country would never be the same. Patriotism would require standing up to what I had seen, not standing alongside it in silence.
I witnessed in Medgar Evers that day the very definition of courage and love of country — his country, my country, our country. After that moment, Evers and I spent more time together. We got to be a bit more than acquaintances, and we often shared a cola and a conversation in the shank of the evening after I had finished filing for the late radio news. Remarkably, I found very little hatred in the man. He didn’t hate white people, although I felt he had every right to. He hated the system and the elected officials who manipulated it. But he saw most of his white neighbors as decent Christian people who were just horribly misguided on race. They had grown up in a system they never questioned and never really understood.
However, I had a sense from that first reporting trip that Evers was living on borrowed time. To stand up for the right to vote was to challenge all the power of the Southern status quo.
I was in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in June of 1963 when we got the call, and it came from King’s headquarters. Evers had been shot and killed. My crew and I chartered a plane, getting to Jackson before daybreak and any other national reporters. Evers had been shot on his front porch, while his wife and children were at home, by a coward hiding in the grass across the street. It was a calculated and cold-blooded assassination. The murder scene was eerily quiet. There were some local law enforcement, and eventually other reporters showed up, but I don’t remember any large crowds.
As I reported from the city, I found that African Americans’ feelings ranged from outrage to despondency. This was what happened when someone tried to stand up and lead. But there was also a deep resolve to persist. Among white people, there were certainly a fair number who felt that Evers had gotten what he deserved. The majority just wanted to go about their lives as if nothing had happened. There might have been white people in Jackson who would have told me this was terrible, that we needed to get to the bottom of it, that we needed to change our ways. But if those people were there, I didn’t find them.
Myrlie Evers would tell me later how terrified she was. She wasn’t only in shock and mourning the sudden death of her husband; she was frightened about what might happen to her children. I wish all those who so glibly try to suppress the vote today could be forced to look into her eyes as I did that day in Jackson."
The Evers family will always be in my thoughts and prayers. We as a nation owe them a tremendous debt of gratitude."
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/author-television-host-lawrence-odonnell/
Delete"Lawrence O’Donnell is the host of the MSNBC primetime program The Last Word. Prior to hosting the show, O’Donnell was an MSNBC political analyst since the network’s launch in 1996 and won an Emmy Award as an executive producer and writer for the hit NBC series The West Wing."
The Interview SMILE:
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"With a famed and storied career that has spanned more than six decades, Dan Rather has earned his place as one of the world’s best-known journalists. He has interviewed every president since Eisenhower and, over that time, personally covered almost every important dateline in the United States and around the world. Rather joined CBS News in 1962. He quickly rose through the ranks, and in 1981 he assumed the position of Anchor and Managing Editor of the CBS Evening News – a post he held for 24 years. Now, building upon that foundation, he is president and CEO of News and Guts, an independent production company he founded that specializes in high-quality non-fiction content across a range of traditional and digital distribution channels."
Note the lone arm. How many are WE missing?
ReplyDeleteO/T Trump "It is Time" cough cough announcement. Gosh wonder where THAT came from? Copycat.
ReplyDeleteAnyways. Folks. Ask yourself.
Whose grave did they exhume?
Who is ol Donny Brook following?
Russia. Cough.Just saying. :/
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-putin-hints-president-reelection-doesnt-announce/28900426.html
DeletePutin Announces>
He Will Run For Reelection In March
How long before dRUMPf announces.
'COPYthatCATcomrade'
http://www.pbs.org/video/american-forum-putin-and-the-sea-dybcn8/
DeleteTrump will never win if he runs for reelection. The majority throughout America despise the guy and the job he is currently doing! He's pure evil!
DeleteIf Trump scandals fizzle out and he lasts thru the first term, and he is still in good 'health', and he wants to serve another term, it is quite likely he would win again 10:46.
DeleteIt really is a question whether he wants 8 years of this though, much less 4.
And, he'll likely start a war (wag the dog) so he can be a wartime president. We tend to elect those.
DeleteHow about nukes in Asia and start a war in Mideast? It's probably on his calendar. He can throw in Venezuela or whatever fits his fancy at anytime.
DeleteI recall Prince Charles made a trip to Jerusalem. Hmmm.
DeleteWho was it anyways? And why was he there afterwards?
I think Trump is giving a speech about recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital and keep embassy in Tel Aviv for now but will move to Jerusalem and boy is he sniffing like crazy.
ReplyDeleteIs that what coke heads do?
$peedfFreakViagraJUNKie
DeleteThese announcements could not be anymore perfect when it comes to being anti Donald Trump! Love it, love it!
ReplyDeleteSo well deserved too - as to Time Magazine's choice and the award for Mr. CK!!! Yea! Perfecto!
My mom was a governor and should have been named Times Person of the Year
ReplyDeleteYea, right!? The correct selections were made - no Donald Trump!!! That was the very best news we could all receive.
DeleteHonestly, Bristol. Your mom quitting so soon is like cancelling your subscription to Time.
DeleteLOL, Wild Tortoise
Yay! The Palin obsessed people are here! We might forget about the Palins without them.
DeleteYou mean along with Hitler and Saddam Hussein?
DeleteShe’ll be forever remembered for that Turkey pardon. We enjoy it every Thanksgiving where we give thanks that John McCain lost to the greatest president of our times.
Enjoy that revisionist history of Paul Revere’s Ride also too dontchaknow.
Show some respect.
DeleteWhere would Trump be without a forerunner like a Palin?
Evangelicals owe a great deal to old Palin.
Israel should thank a Palin.
You would not be here if not for a Palin.
Putin owes a lot to a Palin.
Russia thanks a Palin.
Be thankful and appreciate ye of little Palin.
LMAO
DeleteShe always said that she didn't need a title to do her dirty work. She can leave the CHRIST out of Christmas in her yearly message this year (does she still do those?). She emulates nothing of Him, that ol' Queen Heifer.
$arah is not a x-stian, she's a dominionist. HUGE difference.
DeleteSarah's a frickin freak who keeps getting gun slapped while running around! Haha.
Delete'fuck Buddys FUCK the world' DONE!
ReplyDelete""Today, we finally acknowledge the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel's capital. This is nothing more or less than a recognition of reality. It is also the right thing to do,"
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/06/politics/president-donald-trump-jerusalem/index.html
Ru$$ia isis watching XXX--->>>
ReplyDeleteWhat a freak. Alex.
DeleteEaten any eels lately? Haha.
DeleteA person of the GOP:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/colorado-republican-busted-after-trying-to-bring-loaded-handgun-onto-flight/
Reagan was a trained actors with decades of experience. He was able to hide his Alzheimer’s much better than the pathetic orange amateur. The stress of the job seems to be speeding up the progression. He’ll never finish his term, even if Mueller and Impeachment fail to remove him.
DeleteNancy Reagan isolated Ronnie, everyone had to go though her,now that we know he had Alzheimer's it becomes clear why.
DeleteOT?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/for-the-first-time-in-7-years-there-are-more-homeless-in-us/ar-BBGhFfN
And there you have the essential difference. Colin Kaepernick, a REAL hero, who dared to stand up for his beliefs even when it meant losing his lucrative, short window athletic career versus whining , too chicken to say anything at the time who waited to say anything at all because they preferred lucrative careers (that's excepting the strawberry picker.)
ReplyDeleteI'm a woman and I'm tired of this bullshit. Remember the old cliche about how women have to go to the restroom in groups - evidently they have to protest perceived abuse the same way.
Oh, and I am a woman, embarrassed by these poseurs.
you are a woman, right. no woman would let rape pass.
DeleteKaepernick belongs in a clown car.
DeleteHe is an artificial hero. Manufactured. A lackluster quarterback on his way out of the NFL, so he jumped on the 'oppressed' bandwagon for artificial fame. What is infinitely amusing are those who are still trying to prop up this fake.
trump-all women are liars. this all fake news. that tape wasn't me. it should have been me on the cover. i'm the only important person in the world ECT. same old crap.
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling this me too movement is going to come back to bite us badly.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like too many accusations that are left unproven are ruining reputations and careers.
If Time magazine really wanted to make a statement, they would have put the women that accused trump on the cover.
ReplyDeleteHe did it.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.yahoo.com/news/gay-man-denied-marriage-license-hopes-unseat-county-163629957.html
"David Ermold returned to the Rowan County courthouse Wednesday, nearly two years after Clerk Kim Davis refused to give him a marriage license because he was gay.
Only this time, he did not want a license. He wants Davis' job."
Let's hope his paperwork doesn't mysteriously "disappear."