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From the Feminist Wire:
In 1998 when Lil' Kim penned these lyrics in the Hip Hop anthem, 'Money, Power, Respect,' she was likely drawing upon her early years as a struggling teen on the streets of Brooklyn with limited resources and no real place to call home. In my naivety, I assumed that Lil' Kim was talking about something she in fact had, not what she and countless others like her would spend a lifetime longing for. Today, these lyrics continue to ring true for women and men alike. For black diasporic women and girls, they are particularly profound. However, for immigrant domestic workers, Lil' Kim's lyrics are prophetic. Money, power and respect is exactly what former IMF Managing Director (and front-runner for the 2012 French presidential election) Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 62, has, and what the unnamed 32-year-old Guinean housekeeper, who accused Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault in a Manhattan hotel in May, needs to be taken seriously and to win her case against him.
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By: Ernest G. Holzmann on 7/09/2011 1:03AM
Let me put it this way: Isn't it strange that the hotel's culpability is never brought up in the context of this case? The visitor certainly paid enough to justfy TWO employees laboring together, rather than just one "poor, unprotected immigrant"! Good grief, how innocent that hotel management appears in all the stories and versions we read! I doubt anyone assumes innocence on the part of either one of the two principals involved in the story. Yet, the extraordinary price of a night spent in that luxury suite does not appear to rise to the level of justifying equivalent service! If not, why not? And if so, then in my view BOTH participants in the encounter were let down by the host organization!
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By: ed johnson on 7/11/2011 10:49AM
It's about MONEY. She want to get paid. Like most of these cases; the people want to get rich on the backs of others. Look what happened to Michael Jackson. One of his accoused said he was White from his waist up and Black from there down. All a lie. It's about MONEY. This doesn't mean that rape doesn't happey. It does, but it puts the problem of proving the case to a higher standard.
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By: ed johnson on 7/11/2011 8:16PM
I know. happen is mis-spelled. lol
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