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Freedom Ride: Just 50 Years Ago. We Must Never Forget.

As we look around this colorful world that God has created plants, insects and animals representing a rainbow , its hard to understand how racism could exist. But just 50 years ago one small group of people were finally fed up being denied their human and American rights as citizens of the United States solely because of the color of their skin. They decided that they were no longer going to be treated as second class citizens. This small group of blacks and sympathetic whites had the courage to stand up together on the Freedom Ride that would change the course of history. This is the kind honest history that's not taught in most classrooms in America. If more black and white children were taught the historical facts America would be a lot closer to forming a more perfect union. Don't miss Monday night's special on PBS.

Black Women Are Ugly! Tell Psychology Today to apologize

Update:   Psychology Today Finally Apologizes , Reluctantly.

Next to the power of one man one vote, the internet I believe may be the most powerful tool for change the disenfranchised and special interest groups have ever seen. Individually you are ignored but collectively with the power of the internet you are a force to be reckoned with. This power was seen this past week when Psychology Today was force to apologize for calling Black Women ugly.

 

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Dear Charles,

The efforts of you and more than 75,000 other ColorOfChange members paid off.¹ Psychology Today has now agreed to remove controversial author Satoshi Kanazawa, the author of a deeply offensive article regarding Black women, from its website, and they have implemented new policies to prevent inflammatory content in the future.

It wasn’t easy or a foregone conclusion. After staying silent for almost two weeks, Psychology Today on Friday issued an apology, but they refused to say how they would prevent such a situation from happening again. Then hundreds of ColorOfChange members started calling the magazine by phone, along with additional pressure on Facebook and Twitter demanding a clearer response — at which point Psychology Today came correct and did the right thing.

While there still remains the larger problem of Black women and girls having to face dehumanizing and damaging messages, this is an important victory. We've not only drawn a line with Psychology Today — we've sent a powerful message to other media outlets that serving as a platform for racist and dehumanizing content is unacceptable and will result in pushback and consequences.

At ColorOfChange, we will continue to hold media accountable, and we hope you will continue to be there with us. Remember, our work is powered by you, our members. If you can support our work financially, whatever the amount, please click the link below:

http://www.colorofchange.org/donate

Thanks and Peace,

-- Rashad, James, Gabriel, William, Dani, Matt, Natasha, and the rest of the ColorOfchange.org team
   June 2nd, 2011

Psychology Today recently published an article claiming it to be scientific fact that Black women are less beautiful than women of other races. The article was flawed from top to bottom -- it was actually opinion masquerading as science, written by someone with a track record of using pseudoscience to promote discredited racist and sexist ideas.

 

Psychology Today needs to apologize, explain how this happened and how they plan to make sure it won't happen again. Please join us in demanding that they do.

Since Monday, more than 50,000 ColorOfChange members have called on Psychology Today to address it's decision to run an article that uses false science to argue that Black women are “objectively” less attractive than women of other races.

Still, they've remained silent. Can you help us get to 70,000? It takes a second to add your voice to the call, demanding PT apologize and explain how this won't happen again. Once we get to 70,000, we'll deliver your petitions to Psychology Today's headquarters to increase the pressure.

Tell Psychology Today how you feel about the article they published

by clicking  here.