Posts Tagged ‘post-racial’
When is a Monkey Not a Monkey
Note to all the men and women working in newsrooms, board rooms, back rooms of the American institutions:
In America, a monkey is not always a monkey.
A couple recent examples: Monkey cartoon and Lebron James on Vogue
And my own brush with the M word in the workplace.
Many would say America is ‘post-racial.’ Meaning ‘past race.’ [...]
Monkey Monkey Monkey
This blog article was written in late May 2006.
The person that coined the phrase ’sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’ was probably never publicly called a monkey.
I was a grown woman, working in the public sector as an environmental engineer, the first time I was called one. Thankfully, [...]
