Thursday, June 2, 2011

Victory Has Won..*Psychology Today* Agrees.amen!!

"The efforts of you and more than 75,000 other ColorOfChange members paid off. 1 Psychology Today has now agreed to remove controversial author Satoshi Kanazawa, the author of a deeply offensive article regarding Black women, from its website, and they have implemented new policies to prevent inflammatory content in the future. It wasn’t easy or a foregone conclusion. After staying silent for almost two weeks, Psychology Today on Friday issued an apology, but they refused to say how they would prevent such a situation from happening again. Then hundreds of ColorOfChange members started calling the magazine by phone, along with additional pressure on Facebook and Twitter demanding a clearer response — at which point Psychology Today came correct and did the right thing. While there still remains the larger problem of Black women and girls having to face dehumanizing and damaging messages, this is an important victory. We've not only drawn a line with Psychology Today — we've sent a powerful message to other media outlets that serving as a platform for racist and dehumanizing content is unacceptable and will result in pushback and consequences. At ColorOfChange, we will continue to hold media accountable,"