Justice For Tierra; Detained in Dubai

 

Talk about crazy! The embedded Newsweek article fails to emphasize that Tierra Allen, 29, is a young Black Woman being detained in Dubai for daring to respond in kind to a presumably Muslim man yelling at her.

This is not the first I am hearing of a Black Woman being arrested and detained in Dubai over some BS!

I respect that each country  has the right to do as it pleases, enforce laws that make  sense to them. I respect that I do not have to understand or agree with said laws nor do I believe outsiders have the right to try and change or westernize the laws of other countries. More  importantly, however, I recognize that I am under no obligation to visit said countries. So, I don't...

Dubai is officially scratched off my list of places to visit. Read this article and be informed about the petty things others have been detained for.

Be well informed about a country before you travel.

Kudos to Tierra's Mom, Tina Baxter, for getting this in the public eye and to Newsweek for publishing her story. This is likely a much bigger problem and happening more often than we know. Hopefully, the magazine and other news sources will be inspired to launch an investigative series. How many people are detained in Dubai? How many of them are women? Black Women? Inquiring and traveling minds should want to know...

Meanwhile, share this article with others, pressure US officials to get Tierra home and stay the hell out of Dubai OR at least be sure to know the laws before you get there! This could very easily be you. Think about it...

https://www.newsweek.com/american-woman-jail-dubai-trucker-tierra-allen-dubai-screaming-1813320

#JusticeForTierra

Fix OUR Crown

Call me old. Call me prudish. It may be so. I will own it...

I do not think, however, that our young women know, or perhaps they don't care about, the hurdles Black women have overcome in terms of demanding dignity, respect and the right not to be regarded as sexual property to be raped on demand. This imagery of unclothed or scantily clothed Black Women on public display feeds some very disturbing history.

Our foremothers were raped. No one could protect us, not even our men. Miss Anne, modern day "Becky", resented us (still resents us) because her man couldn't stay away (thank God Black Women now have choice, he still wouldn't stay away...), somehow it was our fault. We made her "man" violate and rape us and bare his children whose eyes she recognized as his when they peered back at her daily. I can only imagine the hurt turned to rage...

Historically, Black Women have been stereotyped as "lose", "jezebel" or "hypersexual" beings therefore legitimizing the rape of us dating back to slavery. Somehow, "we asked for it"...

These young Black women are feeding a very damaging dialogue or depiction of us and seem not to know or care that their "shock value" behavior and/or attire is harmful [to us] as they justify the absurdity with some new nonsense catch-all phrase, "respectability politics", the latest of many newfound buzz words used to justify or distract from the unacceptable or the inexplicable...

There is sexy, there is suggestive and then there is downright tasteless and classless. Sadly, this new generation seems mostly attracted to or influenced by the latter. They are role models to the next generation of young Black Women whether they want to be or not. They are being watched and imitated by our baby girls.

My generation knew there was a difference between the behavior and dress of entertainers and us. We separated. This generation does not. What will their "shock value" be or will the pendulum swing back?

Perhaps our parents said some of these things about us too. Perhaps our morals and a standard to be "ladylike" has deteriorated over time as we have adopted feminism, an ideology that has not served us well in so many ways...

I am mindful and very careful to consider that yep', I might be getting old, never forgetting, that I, too, was a young, sexy thang'. I remember being bothered by and complaining to my Mom about older women acting jealous or insecure about my body and my simply becoming a woman. I vowed never to envy or deny women younger then me their beauty and their right to be young and sexy. I value their beauty, their shapeliness and their youth and I tell them to embrace and enjoy every moment!

Each generation it seems  is critical of the next. Maybe that's the natural order of things. No matter I slice it, however, this generation seems out of control. No barriers, no judgment, no consideration of our past, no sense of regard for us as community, as a collective. These young Black women,  knowingly or not, are playing to every stereotype. It is shameful, it is unwise, void of introspection or forethought. It is exhausting and disturbing to see...

Fix OUR crowns young Sistahs. This is not who we are...

#teamIndieArie

Privilege

 

Recently I was engaged in conversation with a few folks about all the guns and violence in the US and how unsure we can all feel  about our safety. We can be shot at any time, anywhere. America is built on, thrives on and encourages violence. She is obsessed with guns!

One of the participants in the conversation just happened to be a Jewish woman who, at some point, seems to have lived in Israel. She offered that everyone in Israel has guns too yet the crime and murder rates are under control and that no one was afraid or feels unsafe. 🤦🏾‍♀️

It took all I had, because of the setting, not to ask if she thought the Palestinians openly carried guns and if she thinks they feel safe...

Privilege allows us not to see or experience other people, their issues, their situation and why or how they see or receive us...

#getoutthebox!