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Chicago Street Journal
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November 1, 2017 Volume 23, No. 5
#MeToo Long before the #MeToo hashtag or references to “pussy grabbing” there were screams and tears from women across all civilizations, that went unanswered. And, let’s not forget the slave woman, mother and child, Maya Angelou or The Color Purple. But, unlike ever before and thank goodness in our time, Alyssa Milano shared her experiences and now the world responds -- FINALLY! The #MeToo hashtag has lent a voice and opened the doors for the victims of sexual harassment and abuse to tell their stories and release the pain and secrets of a lifetime. May this door never close and enable all who wish to do so, to walk through with a new meaning and understanding of what is actually taking place around the world in this sick cycle of the abuse of boys and girls and women and men. In France, Twitter users are using #balancetonporc or "expose the pig" to encourage women to name and shame their attackers, while #WomenWhoRoar is also being used to encourage victims of sexual
abuse to speak up. Let’s wave our own flags and shout out #MeToo from sea-to-shining-sea.
ously lived in that apartment had been the owners of the building. They had four foster children and Kenneth’s mother was their granddaughter. When the mother died, all of the children, except Robert, My #MeToo Story. were returned to their parents or to the Excerpt from “Black America – Asking state. Maybe there was no place for him to go. He moved in with the elderly gentleOurselves The Tough Questions” by man and his new wife in their home, two Sonja Cassandra Perdue. I was very young. 12 years doors down. old. Kenneth Johnson was younger. He Robert and I had been at war since I was 5 years old. We lived on the first floor was small enough to crawl under a of a small two-flat and Kenneth and his bed. That’s my earliest memory of him family lived upstairs. The Johnsons were chasing me and grabbing me in a sexual in their late 20s and had four children; manner. I would come to play with the whenever the young couple wanted to go other kids and he’d begin grabbing me and out, I was the children’s playmate/ touching me and I would run and slide unbabysitter. der his mother’s bed. He was trying to get It would be a grand time — every me from under there, but he was too big to time. We’d play games, play school, but crawl under there and reach me. I knew most importantly there was no screaming, even then that he was afraid of getting no beatings, or arguing. Although I was caught, so he coached me out with smoothyoung, they knew that they were safe with ing words that he was not going to bother me because I loved being in charge and I me. just loved small children. Continued on Page 4 The elderly couple who had previ-
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