Local Business Woman Outraged!

"I Get It From My Momma" Natural Progression of Louisiana Buckwheat
For Immediate Release--
Scranton, PA: Hazel Boykin, a 75-year-old civil rights activist who helped desegregate Louisiana restaurants and schools, helped Democratic Louisiana State Representative Carla Blanchard Dartez get voters to the polls earlier this month. At the end of a private telephone conversation thanking Boykin for her efforts, Representative Dartez said, "Talk to you later, Buckwheat."

Known for beginning her passionate speeches with the phrase “I am proud to be an American true, but I am even more proud to be a Louisianan first”, Tanya Callaway Crews today is heartbroken.
“I am saddened today with the lack of media attention or outrage in the community with the recent events that have happened in Louisiana. I continue to be amazed with the “surprise” in the community over the Jena 6. It was a lack of involvement in the early stages that allowed the madness to continue. So here we are on the eve of another election in Louisiana, and the embers are warming for another firestorm, and no one is sounding the alarm.”

Project 21 chairman Mychal Massie is criticizing both the lawmaker for saying it and the media for once again appearing to take a pass on reporting about a liberal politician's racial foible. "Representative Dartez's comments were offensive and pejorative," said Massie. "There is no way in this day and age that 'Buckwheat' can be construed as anything but an insult, and there is no reason a politician should get a pass based on their record or party affiliation. She should resign her seat."Crews notes that the youth of today are passionate and have few outlets to release their feelings. Young people are fed up the ideas that they hear at home from their parents, which continue to be unaddressed. They are watching the adults and how we interact with each other and how passive we have become and they feel they need to act on our behalf. “We need to show our youth how the system can work to correct injustices and racist behavior, before the firestorm wells up once again in our schools, otherwise kids will be bringing Buckwheat wigs to school.” Crews explains.

Tanya Callaway Crews served as Prosecutor for Louisiana’s Fourth Judicial District’s Teen Court from 1984 to 1988, and served on the Governor’s Commission on Juvenile Justice. She is a founding Board Member of The Louisiana Network of Washington, DC, and Northeast Louisiana Mobile Christian School as well as the Founder of First Touch Communications, Inc. and CEO of Crews, Callaway & Associates. A true renaissance woman, she often speaks for political, non- profit and business groups. For scheduling please call (866)767-9880 or visit www.firsttouchinc.com.
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