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Are Educated, Black Professionals Getting Their Due? (795 hits)

Last night on "FIRM...but fair" with Jeffery A. Faulkerson, I had a wonderful conversation with health expert and author Shawnte Wells and education consultant Okpara Nosaphasere. The question on the table was "Are educated, black professionals getting their due?"

(Listen to this podcast segment @
www.blogtalkradio.com/firmbutfair)

Downloads of this podcast are off the chain, resulting from us educated black professionals becoming displeased with mainstream culture's penchant for focusing on black entertainment and sports celebrities. For us Blacks, this type of treatment is the pink elephant in the room. As I always say, we need to take control of what's being said about us, insert more accurate messages and images into the mainstream.

We also need to take a more critical look at those public relations, advertising and marketing firms whose employees are crafting these messages and creating these images. Blacks and other persons of color usually are not even sitting at the table. When this occurs, our true perspective is not considered because they rely on marketing research that supports their clients' money-making aims.

What do you think? Are educated, black professionals getting their due?

I look forward to reading your responses.

Jeffery A. Faulkerson, MSSW
www.jefferyafaulkerson.com

Posted By: J. A. Faulkerson
Monday, January 19th 2009 at 9:34AM
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i feel that black professionals should be creating their own small or large businesses. this way we have more control of how we want to be advertised. i'm working with a home based business that creates wealth for all races not only in the u.s. but abroad as well. we can only control advertising by creating our own businesses.
Monday, January 19th 2009 at 11:02AM
stephen futado

Slowly but surely the nation is changing and we are becoming a major voice in the mainstream media. More and more I see black news anchors on television and black movies with a positive message abound. The sad thing is news about black teen "thugs" having a big fight at some high school somewhere trails the story of the inauguration and news of black teens at a local movie theater-100s of them having a brawl in a parking lot is showcased in the middle of the good news of our first Black president. Negativity is always an attention-grabber but we don't need anymore sad stories about what black thugs are doing. They should highlight more positivity like the black students who ARE doing well in school..who ARE volunteering and making positive changes. "The Hoodie awards" created by Steve Harvey is the only award show that I know of that celebrates the efforts of everyday African Americans in our community and I don't even think it is televised nationally.
Monday, January 19th 2009 at 6:15PM
Sun Smith

Black educators are an example of the homegrown notoriety spoken of earlier. However, what is missed is that this person has succeeded where others have failed. Instead of sharing the success by asking these people to help other schools with the same problems, it gets chalked up as an accident. The best judge of the capabilities of a teacher is to look at the change in student performance from year to year.
Saturday, January 31st 2009 at 1:58PM
George Milliken