November 23, 2004 by elenamary
I once heard Joycelyn Elders say “I believe every child born should be a wanted child.” It was her pro-choice speech. I too am pro-life and believe that every child born should be wanted. That women have the right to the choice of baring a child.
Where does Ohio stand in terms of a women’s right to healthly take care of her own body? Well, accodring to NARAL Ohio scores an ‘F’. One reason being that “91 percent of Ohio counties have no abortion provider”.
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November 19, 2004 by elenamary
I am off to Louisiana.
It isn’t too late to give two congressional seats to Democrats. I am off to work in Louisiana’s 3rd and 7th Congressional district
It is a “Road Trip for a New Majority“. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is paying for my flight from Washington DC to Louisiana. I however need to get to Washington DC from Columbus. I’ll spend a couple of days in DC before taking off for Louisiana helping them get ready and then we are off.
I am excited and also broke. As I learned from Marisa when she tried to make a difference in a swing states. Why not ask for funding? So, if you want to donate to my flight to DC so I can get to Louisiana and help out in DC check out the link.
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November 18, 2004 by elenamary
I found this funny (yes, pointless) and ask that if my blog is truly a “quality read”…why am I posting this?
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 Your blog is smart, insightful, and always a quality read. Truly appreciated by many, surpassed by only a few. |
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November 18, 2004 by elenamary
I was walking down the street today a chocolate chip cookie in one hand and a mocha in the other. The weather was pleasantly warm, I was in a good mood, wearing my holiest and most comfortable pair of jeans. It doesn’t get better than this.
I was blissfully walking and not paying attention to a thing in the world when I noticed this black guy staring at me. He was staring at me hardcore and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out where I knew him from. He looked incredibly familiar. Did I tutor him? Did I fix his computer? How did I know him?
And then after I passed him, I realized, it was KyJah.
I hadn’t seen KyJah since June. His dreadlocks are gone. The man who had never cut his hair in his life looked like he got a buzz cut a month or two ago and hadn’t brushed his hair since, it was really nappy. He looked so much shorter, so much younger, chubbier and less maintained. By “less maintainedâ€Â, I can’t completely explain other than to say he was wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt two things I’d never seen him wear, not even to capoeira.
It was really weird seeing him and realizing that I had failed to recognize him. Someone I was friends with and so very regularly saw and yet I didn’t recognize them on the street. It’s left me questioning my interactions with a lot of people. Will I ever run into someone on the street who once meant a great deal more to me than KyJah ever had and not be able to tell them apart from any other stranger? Why didn’t he say hello? Did he not recognize me, the same way I had failed to recognize him?
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November 18, 2004 by elenamary
An update to my What I am Worth entry. Evidently today is a PBJ day around campus. Check out the article below from The Lantern OSU’s Student Newspaper.
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November 17, 2004 by elenamary
A couple years ago on the campus Oval I went off on a kid who was trying to get me to make a PBJ sandwich. Let me explain, every year for some reason, OSU has PBJ sandwich making tables set up all over campus. Later that day the sandwiches are taken to a homeless shelter. I have issues with this.
1. Who wants to eat a PBJ sandwich at 7 in the evening that sat in the sun all day?
2. When Faculty, Staff and Administration leave their offices to come down and make a sandwich is this really beneficial to anyone? Couldn’t this person instead call and make a donation of $1 that would go a lot further than a soggy sandwich, or if they are an administrator why not make a phone call and get some corporation to make a financial donation to the homeless shelter of $10?
Why did I go off on this kid? Well, he screamed to me as I passed by “Don’t you want to help people? Don’t you care about those less fortunate”. I was pissed at the screaming, and I was pissed at the fact he assumed because I didn’t want to make a sandwich I didn’t care.
So, I told him “Don’t accuse me of not caring. I have better ways to contribute than by making a sandwich and so do you. I probably will give back more to this world than you even though you are a white male. Did you know that a white male with a High School degree earns on average the same as a Latina with a Masters degree? Why don’t you go work for an hour and donate that money? Or go study so that you can get a good job and donate even more money? That is what I am going to go do so that hopefully one day I can make as much money as you would out of high school.”
Anyway, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research has their report out today on the Women’s Economic Status in the States.
“A new report paints a portrait of two
American economies – one that pays white
men $44,200 and another that pays all women
dramatically less, from $23,200 for Hispanic
women and $25,500 for Native American women,
to $27,600 for African American women and
$30,900 for white women.
Even the highest paid group of women,
Asian American women, earn only $33,100,
a full 25 percent less than white men.
‘For every $1 earned by the average
Hispanic woman, the average white man
takes $1.90. They’re living in the same
country, but they’re in two different
economies,’ according to economist Heidi Hartmann.”
For a brief summary of the study you can read about it at Mercury News. You can also check out a State by State breakdown. Here is our great state of Ohio.
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