Okay...recently I just read that there is somewhat of a controversy going on about the media and its diversity levels. Somehow, minority women are at the bottom of the food chain, or shall I say "media" chain. More and more flourishing businesses are being created and minority women aren't the owners. Sure there are a few, but these small print shops and local magazines aren't getting the "play" they deserve. It's like, if you're not white, a man, or married to "THE" man then you really have to start from scratch (even if you're company has been in the "business" for years). Jet magazine and Essence magazine both wrote articles about this situation in their June 2005 issues. One bitter woman (who will remain anonymous) was livid! She was mad...to the point were half of the article had to be continued into another section.
Being a black woman who is a Journalism (Public Relations sequence) major...I felt her pain. I aspire to have my own Public Relations firm, cutting the middle man out completly. After reading what she's been going through for the past 12 years, I'm thinking to myself, "What am I going to go through in order to get what I want?" No...I don't let what happen to this woman cloud my judgment on the media or deter me from what my goals are, but I do think about what obstacles will come at me just because I'm black and a female. Let's wake up, America. Face it, minority women are out here doing what it is that we want to do, and if that's media sales...so be it. Stop attempting to put us in the dark...I carry a flashlight wherever I go. So all you people out here with the bright ideas of keeping my minority sisters out...click your lights off.
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