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Josie Johnson |
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Portrait by Del Bey
Education consultant, social justice, community activism. What do you think of the Civil Rights Movement Today? "I think it is the same struggle. It´s still trying, the bridge in Selma, the march on Washington, the struggle for passage of civil rights legislation. Itªs still the same. I think it´s important for people to connect back to your earlier question about strategy. We need to look at the conditions. What has been the fall out for our people and our movement? We need to do examine what to do as a people to offer opportunity, fairness, and justice for our future generations. It´s the same struggle my parents and grandparents were in. It´s the same because we are in a society with a different agenda... A different method of providing civil rights and justice..." Stigma "Stigma is a word that is important in our American socialization process. African-Americans have been stigmatized from the very beginning. When you look at the memorabilia that floats around in antique stores and collections, that exist across the world painting us in less than human terms and depicting the worse one can find in the human experience. It creates an image that is translated into stigma of who the people are and what they represent." |
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