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FOX Attacks Black America Video

Monica — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:03:27 +0000

Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films Challenges Fox News

This isn’t anything that many of us have heard it before, but what I love about Robert Greenwald’s camp is the great way they bring it all together. Greenwald is the director who produced and directed Walmart: The High Price of Low Costs, Outfoxed, and Iraq For Sale. His films are all available on his site and on Netflix.com

Working all the time, I never really paid attention to Fox until Hurricane Katrina slowed me down. For a solid week I repeatedly saw first hand the racism in action. Today, I trust little the opinions of Fox News. It’s important to know what folks are thinking, however, so I haven’t completely blocked the channel out when I see it .

Monica Dillon Female Speaker And Artist At The Pump

Monica — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:51:13 +0000

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I’m not smug enough to believe this all happened by accident or that I had no hand in this. Gas prices right now are the fault of all of us in some small way. I could go on…and I will soon. But for now, I too am having my moment with the increased cost of getting around the city from day to day.

African American Speaker Monica Dillon Questions A World With No Trees

Monica — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:46:05 +0000

African American Speaker Questioning A World

That Tears Down Trees

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I love the great outdoors. And I love the city too. Most people who know me, know that I am found of being outside, around nature, trees, etc. While running in the park recently, it hit me that many of our problems stem from our profound disdain and reverence for nature and the power She has to keep us sane and secure. Without trees, we would be a world with no shade, intense heat, and lots more carbon in the air, e.g. pollution.

I also like old houses. I like the new, but old houses seem to have a characteristic that can’t be found or faked in newer buildings. The trend today is to take a house that could otherwise be fixed and deem it a “tear down.” So much of our urban areas areas around the country are falling victim to this. In areas of Atlanta, I recently saw firsthand how neighborhoods are being totally gentrified and rebuilt, to look like something…well…something fake and plastic.

Walking neighborhoods are disappearing for cosmopolitan lifestyles and I wonder if anyone else cares.

What do you think?

Bakersfield California Refuses To Marry Anyone

Monica — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:30:01 +0000

The Stupidest Thing I Didn’t Hear Today

So I didn’t actually hear this on NPR yesterday morning, but it’s got to be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. It’s kind of like shutting down the swimming pool cause an African American dipped her toe in the water.

Bakersfield, California seems to be one of the more conservative cities in California. Johnny Carson even called Bakersfield the “Hicks in the Sticks.”

So why are they refusing to marry everyone? They are claiming financial hardship with the additional influx of gays and lesbian flocking to their doors….over 100 in the last couple of days, to be exact.

As my dear colleague, peer and partner says “this is what happens when racism, sexism, and homophobia makes us stupid.”