~Notes From Nessa~

  "To Engage In Downright Plagiarism is Disappointing. It's Cynical, Opportunistic, and Hypocritical"  -Saul Bass                                                                 Credit: Rad Ryan Edits Imagine working on something you are truly passionate about. You spend so much time, energy, and money creating it. Finally, you finish it and decide to share it with the world! Then, someone takes what you've made for their own personal gain and doesn't give you credit! Others who see it have no idea that product is yours. All that effort and pride you put into it is not acknowledged. Wouldn't that hurt your feelings and make you feel taken advantage of?  Wouldn't you be pissed off?! I know without a doubt I would be. It's rude and inconsiderate, and it's plagiarism. This is why pla...

  "You Can't Force Someone To Respect You, But You Can Refuse To Be Disrespected" You want to know what happened right?! You're assuming I fought the customer or something crazy!? My pictures and title intrigued you didn't it? Well... I didn't fight the customer at all. I grabbed my manager to handle the situation and walked away calmly. Not what you were expecting was it? That's because you were misinformed and mislead. I did get cussed out by a customer, that part was true. However, I used those pictures and the second part of my title to draw you in and make you believe I beat the customer's a**! (Trust me, I really wanted to...but your girl has to keep her job!) Misinformation and disinformation are prominent everywhere we look and many times we don't recognize it! How many times have you seen a news article on Facebook that once you clicked on it, the content had NOTHING to do with the title?! Or, you're on Youtube and come across thumbnai...

  "Dipped in Chocolate, Bronzed in Elegance, Enameled With Grace, Toasted With Beauty, My Lord, She's a Black Woman."  -Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan It's a beautiful day to be a Black woman! Happy Black History month y'all. A month of celebrating the beauty, resilience, power, and magic of being Black. It's a month of reinforcing pride in Black people. We matter and we are powerful, despite the hate, racism, and brutality we've experienced in our White hegemonic society. Black women throughout history have been compared to the (White) standard of beauty. We've been told our lips and noses are too big, our hair is too nappy, our skin is too dark. All of the things that make us truly magical, are conceived unattractive.  I want to discuss the photo above. Janet Collins was the first Black woman to become a ballerina at The Metropolitan Opera in the 1950s. She faced racism along the way of course; a ballet company she auditioned for stated the only way they...