CETA 2020: Our first 2 emojis (of hundreds)

CETA 2020: Our first 2 emojis (of hundreds)
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Class Notes 2/13/19- Meeting with Merlene Davis at the Plantory

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  1. AnonymousMarch 19, 2019 at 4:10 PM

    Wrote for the paper
    irreplaceable writer
    68 years old, cook nearly every day 3 children all grown
    grew up in Owensboro Ky first years of education was segregated and her mother decided that she was going to integrate schools with her children. Spit on, kicked, hit, called names every single day. questioned why her mother sent her there. She was upset with her mom for doing this. Children didn't have as much agency then as they did now. Her mother didn't tell her until the day of that she was going to the white school.
    her mother would say “you cannot be as good as those people you have to be better than”
    softball- took the bat away from her and said she couldn't have the right to bat. yanked it back and hit her. the teacher didn't tell anyone. no one hit her, or spit on her again or called her a name. ugly years. forms who you are. go back to neighborhood and felt safe. neighborhood and family were her community. only one white family in her area and they treated her family good.
    Similar to schools in Owensboro?
    Thought Owensboro was better because what had happened in fifth grade happened again when she came to college at University of KY
    1st grade when her brother and sister came home- there job was to teach her what they had learned
    made her a bored student
    Her sixth grade teacher put her in a corner and told her to write a story. after a while she had a collection of stories and read her stories to the 1,2,3 graders
    A story that she knew or didn't know would heal a community?
    Never knew when something would heal but knew when something struck. she wrote for a white woman who had three children. and convince her that merlon was okay and so were other black people. Did she become more enlightened? started at the herald leader in 1983.
    joined program for minority journalists
    first story was covering the gay parade in 83 in San Francisco. hooked you up with a newspaper. Afternoon paper in memphis-had to start a community.
    allowed you to find babysitters and stuff. her Connections with family. she looks for community.
    people hesitate to ask about culture because they don’t want to offend you.
    left for a while.
    spent time as a reporter before she was a columnist. General assignment and op ed writer before she became a columnist.
    The city editor and merlon did not get along. put her as the city hall reporter for six months. she decides shell be city hall reporter and the city editor said no. Merlene went to the higher ups and said I think that I need to go to features because the city editor was discriminating. leverage when we can.

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