Tag: Lisa Benson Cooper

nightshadeis:

geekandmisandry:

niggazinmoscow:

These women must not get away with it. Here’s the link to the article.

Spread it like wildfire!

I think they thought this was a how to article.

[a series of tweets from user Ruby Hamad @rubyhamad

“Just to cap off a great
weekend, I have just been informed a WoC got fired for sharing my white tears
article. So there you go.

I’ll give more details on
this soon…

Okay. About this. This
will be a short thread. Lisa has given my permission to tell all the details.

Lisa Benson Cooper is a
broadcast journalist in Kansas City Missouri. Going by Lisa Benson on air, she
has more than 20 years experience. She has won an Emmy-award for her
journalism. She is a 42 year old married African-American woman with 2
children, a 5 yr old and a 2 yr old.

She has worked for the
last 14 years at 14+ years at KSHB-TV, which is an NBC affiliate owned by EW
Scripps. Scripps own 33 television stations and 33 radio stations across the
USA.

On May 9th, Lisa shared
this piece I wrote for The Guardian, about a common but only recently voiced
phenomenon where WoC who raise issues about race and their mistreatment esp. at
work are punished by white women who claim the WoC is “attacking” them.

Lisa shared this piece on
her PERSONAL Facebook page which is set to private. Two white female colleagues
saw her post, which she tells me she shared int he hopes of “starting a
conversation” & “hopefully enlighten people” about her own other WoC’s
experiences. They contacted HR.

On May 11th Lisa was
suspended from her job at KSHB-TV, for making “made broad, unfair characterizations
of white women as a group based on their race and gender.” She and my article
did no such thing. This is a lie and must be flatout rejected.

And, since there is
always more to the story: Lisa has previously filed a discrimination complaint
and she suspects this was a convenient excuse to get rid of someone who and
already objected to being treated poorly at work on account of her race.

Lisa has a lawyer who is
working to prove that:
A) The article & her sharing of it was not discriminatory or offensive.
B) The argument employed in the article is a point of discussion in many other
mainstream & academic platforms.
C) Lisa was unfairly dismissed.

Please share this thread
and tag anyone you think can help bring attention to this. Lisa says she wants
people to “know this truth about a company they’re entrusting to represent them
and their community.” #Justice4Lisa

My article went viral with
most page views and shares occurring in the US. We can also make Lisa’s story
go viral to ensure she is adequately compensated for this blatant targeting
& discrimination. All she did was share my article to her personal page.
WoC: we are strong together.”]