Recy Taylor, black Alabama woman raped by six white men in 1944, dies aged 97

gelico wrote:

''Two all-white, all-male grand juries declined to indict the six white men who admitted to authorities that they assaulted her''.

each and every one of those dirty, vile, racist bastards on the jury is as complicit as they may as well have taken part in the rape themselves, at least in my opinion.

at least she finally got her apology

gelico wrote:

''Two all-white, all-male grand juries declined to indict the six white men who admitted to authorities that they assaulted her''.

each and every one of those dirty, vile, racist bastards on the jury is as complicit as they may as well have taken part in the rape themselves, at least in my opinion.

at least she finally got her apology

smelly-bandit wrote:A migrant who took part in a 20-man gang rape of a woman in a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden told police that the experience was a “fun joke”.

The incident occurred last summer in the Fittja area of the Swedish capital. 20 men were involved in the brutal gang rape, which took place in a stairwell, but police were only able to identify and charge five of the culprits, all of whom were migrants from Somali and Iraq.

According to the 30-year-old woman, the migrants “discussed who would get to use me first” before pulling her up to the second floor. Many stood waiting for their turn,” she added.

https://www.infowars.com/sweden-migrant-who-participated-in-20-man-gang-rape-of-woman-tells-police-it-was-fun/

smelly-bandit wrote:A woman was raped over 70 years ago??

How is this news??

Women get gang raped by Muslims in Sweden everyday

That's news

smelly-bandit wrote:A migrant who took part in a 20-man gang rape of a woman in a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden told police that the experience was a “fun joke”.

The incident occurred last summer in the Fittja area of the Swedish capital. 20 men were involved in the brutal gang rape, which took place in a stairwell, but police were only able to identify and charge five of the culprits, all of whom were migrants from Somali and Iraq.

According to the 30-year-old woman, the migrants “discussed who would get to use me first” before pulling her up to the second floor. Many stood waiting for their turn,” she added.

https://www.infowars.com/sweden-migrant-who-participated-in-20-man-gang-rape-of-woman-tells-police-it-was-fun/

smelly-bandit wrote:

How is this news??

smelly-bandit wrote:A woman was raped over 70 years ago??

How is this news??

Women get gang raped by Muslims in Sweden everyday

That's news

Maddog wrote:

When Oprah was nine she was raped by her nineteen year old cousin who was baby sitting her. This wouldn't be the only time she was sexually abused she would then be sexually abused by her cousin, a family friend,her mother's boyfriend, and her uncle during her stay in Milwaukee. Toward all these incidents, she never told a soul because the predators swore her to silence. At the age of thirteen Oprah ran away from home, this was due to her years of abuse and at the age of fourteen she became pregnant with an ill son who died shortly after birth. Oprah took the death of her son as she was given a second chance in life. Oprah's mother sent her to live once again with her father in Nashville,Tennessee. Oprah's father was very strict and made education the number-one priority for Oprah.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001856/bio

How Oprah Winfrey Is Empowering Girls and Women Around the World

Oprah Winfrey wants women to break gender barriers on a global scale.

“I have a strong interest — and now background experience — in helping girls become who they were meant to be,” says Winfrey, 62, one of PEOPLE’s 25 Women Changing the World.

A longtime advocate of female education, Winfrey funds several organizations aimed at improving the quality of life for women and helping to boost their confidence. She backs Women for Women International, which supports the financial, educational, and interpersonal needs of women survivors of war, poverty and injustice, as well as Girl Effect, a movement working to end poverty in adolescent women.

Also supported by the Nike Foundation, Girl Effect aims to break the cycle of poverty by building confidence in young women, empowering them and providing access to education and services. “[Girl Effect] will spend 10 to 18 months [in a village in Ethiopia, or Malawi, or Nigeria] just getting to know the village elders, the men who are in charge of what happens not just to the women, but also, obviously, the children,” Winfrey tells PEOPLE. “They will spend time sitting around, drinking tea, smoking the peace pipe, or whatever happens to be the communal expression for sharing in any particular environment.”

“They will spend time with those men and, eventually women, convincing the elders it’s important that your daughter go to school,” she continues. “You end up transforming lives because you first get the girls to see themselves differently. You get them to see the possibility for themselves. And then you get them to see that, ‘Oh, I don’t have to be married at 12. There can be a life for me if I can get myself educated but my father won’t let me be educated.’ ”

Winfrey, who believes Girl Effect successfully employs a “non-traditional model for transforming the lives of adolescent girls,” says she’s learned from the organization’s leaders the importance of working with young people between the ages of 9 and 19.

“After a girl’s already had several children or been married off, it’s too hard,” she says. “The power of Girl Effect is they understand you’ve got to change the way the girl sees herself and the way her community sees her in order to bring about full empowerment.” That’s why those conversations about women in society need to happen early —so girls can reach their full potential.

Girl Effect is just another example of Winfrey’s dedication to helping women get the education they deserve.  The philanthropist also built a world-class school for girls in South Africa for grades 7 through 12 through the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls. Winfrey hopes the students who finish at The Academy will continue their educational paths and eventually transform their communities and countries.

“I have the ultimate satisfaction, I have the ultimate reward that I did exactly what I wanted to do,” says Winfrey. “I wanted to change the lives of these girls at my school. I have been graced with living long enough to see them fulfill the potential that I saw in them when they were 11 and 12 years old.”

“This coming year, 2017, I will have 10 girls in the United States graduate,” she adds of the success of her program. “I have to actually attend 10 graduations of girls graduating from some of the best schools in the United States — one of them now left Spelman and is at Oxford. I have watched them as little girls, literally, blossom into these flourishing young women that are just so dynamic. They’re going to change what happens in their country and in the world.”

http://people.com/human-interest/oprah-winfrey-people-25-women-changing-the-world-with-new-normal-for-women/

sassy wrote:

Maddog wrote:

You have said some stupid things on here, but that is just about the stupidest you have come out with.   There are many things I disagree with Oprah about, but she has always stood for women's empowerment and spoken out about abuse, particularly because of what happened to her as a child, which makes that slur utterly repellant:

When Oprah was nine she was raped by her nineteen year old cousin who was baby sitting her. This wouldn't be the only time she was sexually abused she would then be sexually abused by her cousin, a family friend,her mother's boyfriend, and her uncle during her stay in Milwaukee. Toward all these incidents, she never told a soul because the predators swore her to silence. At the age of thirteen Oprah ran away from home, this was due to her years of abuse and at the age of fourteen she became pregnant with an ill son who died shortly after birth. Oprah took the death of her son as she was given a second chance in life. Oprah's mother sent her to live once again with her father in Nashville,Tennessee. Oprah's father was very strict and made education the number-one priority for Oprah.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001856/bio

The things she has done for women and girls are utterly amazing.   Amoung other things she works for 'Women for Women', which I have tried to help with anything I can do for years.   How dare you slag off someone who has spent her life giving women a lift up!   Utterly contemptible!

How Oprah Winfrey Is Empowering Girls and Women Around the World

Oprah Winfrey wants women to break gender barriers on a global scale.

“I have a strong interest — and now background experience — in helping girls become who they were meant to be,” says Winfrey, 62, one of PEOPLE’s 25 Women Changing the World.

A longtime advocate of female education, Winfrey funds several organizations aimed at improving the quality of life for women and helping to boost their confidence. She backs Women for Women International, which supports the financial, educational, and interpersonal needs of women survivors of war, poverty and injustice, as well as Girl Effect, a movement working to end poverty in adolescent women.

Also supported by the Nike Foundation, Girl Effect aims to break the cycle of poverty by building confidence in young women, empowering them and providing access to education and services. “[Girl Effect] will spend 10 to 18 months [in a village in Ethiopia, or Malawi, or Nigeria] just getting to know the village elders, the men who are in charge of what happens not just to the women, but also, obviously, the children,” Winfrey tells PEOPLE. “They will spend time sitting around, drinking tea, smoking the peace pipe, or whatever happens to be the communal expression for sharing in any particular environment.”

“They will spend time with those men and, eventually women, convincing the elders it’s important that your daughter go to school,” she continues. “You end up transforming lives because you first get the girls to see themselves differently. You get them to see the possibility for themselves. And then you get them to see that, ‘Oh, I don’t have to be married at 12. There can be a life for me if I can get myself educated but my father won’t let me be educated.’ ”

Winfrey, who believes Girl Effect successfully employs a “non-traditional model for transforming the lives of adolescent girls,” says she’s learned from the organization’s leaders the importance of working with young people between the ages of 9 and 19.

“After a girl’s already had several children or been married off, it’s too hard,” she says. “The power of Girl Effect is they understand you’ve got to change the way the girl sees herself and the way her community sees her in order to bring about full empowerment.” That’s why those conversations about women in society need to happen early —so girls can reach their full potential.

Girl Effect is just another example of Winfrey’s dedication to helping women get the education they deserve.  The philanthropist also built a world-class school for girls in South Africa for grades 7 through 12 through the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls. Winfrey hopes the students who finish at The Academy will continue their educational paths and eventually transform their communities and countries.

“I have the ultimate satisfaction, I have the ultimate reward that I did exactly what I wanted to do,” says Winfrey. “I wanted to change the lives of these girls at my school. I have been graced with living long enough to see them fulfill the potential that I saw in them when they were 11 and 12 years old.”

“This coming year, 2017, I will have 10 girls in the United States graduate,” she adds of the success of her program. “I have to actually attend 10 graduations of girls graduating from some of the best schools in the United States — one of them now left Spelman and is at Oxford. I have watched them as little girls, literally, blossom into these flourishing young women that are just so dynamic. They’re going to change what happens in their country and in the world.”

http://people.com/human-interest/oprah-winfrey-people-25-women-changing-the-world-with-new-normal-for-women/

Go wash your mouth out.