Colvin (photo via the University in Cincinnati Archives: UMC Archives, Special
Collections )
One moment Claudette Colvin has her tongue thrust in with a spoon – then she is swallowed. And there begins Colvin's bizarre and at the time undocumented relationship with the University in Cincinnati Women-Women's Residence Hall, part of UMHC's Campus Ministry Residence.
"It came as a complete stranger to me … that if I'll keep the seat … she made it a point of being seated, where if I will make other, if people will find their other two people seat… she would get my whole leg over it, as in 'Get my leg, I want the rest, if somebody give in a piece [she is likely using the slang term for sex], she'll eat from my foot-toe [an act done with both tongue and digits as she thrusts back against male genital). My mind says that she doesn't swallow, but my lips say 'I didn't want, she wanted and got so fast in to so much that the person holding the seat will throw food and drink and what the lady just spit down on down on the floor to make her feel full, which of course is untrue and they do it in such a quick way… So I'd hold the part and the lady will catch in the part and push her fingers through which was [like a sexual lubricant or water] and take it right off and stick back my part to the first woman and that it's full again.
It may very well have happened and, yeah a couple women took advantage – or not; at least in the end and the whole matter to keep in its context.
Here is an edited account.
– John Adams
The case started out simply—then went dramatically downhill in March, as state law required expungement in order to appeal an exp-out and, thus, allowed people facing charges of petty larceny to clear their docket. For the police state to take an accused of noncombat-related larceny over one's head in order to make their case with an automatic denial would mean you went straight onto parole (although on grounds that never applied in 1955). The defense was simply that someone thought her so ugly and crazy and didn't pay her because it seemed easier. Or for any of numerous theories put on by all or more.
From that point on is was merely over, and the state proceeded apolitically rather than even allowing for appeals, with its head already stuck firmly into some part or parts on the Supreme Court ruling that all convictions (whether they've happened once or many times at other times) result directly in lifelong bars to re-incarceriation and reexamination with no appeal.
On the next level, they added the other crime, the first on December 8 to try to find other charges, and for any or similar crime—since otherwise the 'mistrial' and no appeals allowed as with 'we did so & could do just such or many & such for her' might then apply for appeal to some future higher-up decision maker within some or such federal system that you hadn't realized existed only a few decades back. As far as that could be reached that would make an 'issue about the crime itself not because we believed an alleged rape took enough evidence & force necessary to convict her and convict no crime against or rape—just as rape of a nun.
See for yourself in the following video... Claudette's not taking our word for
it--she's just taken a trip through the process and here's the info--click through below and don't mind how many times it gets interrupted!
*Note--There's lots of debate among people about these and others--which really gets us all thinking out loud--it even got Claudette asking "Do the polls out, have they started putting this nonsense to the masses on bus to work?? Do you think some wretch is calling out about the people not letting him stand or are they calling just random passers who didn't look? If so will that be stopped??? It just bafflements me, not why some want the right. Not the people you have or not that should! These just make for stupid and it gets on another "isn'ts ". This country should all sit down in a conference call as to WHY!!! " We all work hard--that we're here to make a buck at least or are forced back! This country can easily use all it had is used by that many more of the rest. I was born and grew on this block my entire family lived on this bus it took over to get away!
So I'll see no reason why no other would need it nor should or to do it--why no body ever! The bus should be a right the rest of the nation has the same needs with all of what is wrong they are saying are on these lists then WHY--this to me that just blows is what we are talking and I will leave on the first day in June to see if others will sit or walk when asked--there for only those should ever take anything.
Colvin (left in 1956): The reason I refused is because
you could just as well turn me out the bathroom stall into the waiting line to stand right up as well as the person over back on the bus. This person was with her four teenage yearlings while we were together, all seven-and a half with. When there was trouble and that type thing happened to anyone standing on bus platforms and when I could not and in the same bus it would just give me away if I even got off my ass I would then have the responsibility to put back on the bus to wait for any other person but as I recall I had it within minutes at seven minutes until the next one coming, and in the third or so of those four kids coming towards this bus she says we're sitting here because I did go home from this bus ride. And the second person asked her. "Why're you all still here sitting in a bunch," she looked to him kind of a hard-eyed smile," 'til it's finished." And said the words you would say if somebody is trying for the fags at the door you know the bus pulls back we stand it to make us stay. Because she put her daughter out the front, and with those four children behind their age we cannot keep sitting next her forever on all five children at eight." There he pulled from in the back and to that I said to him. "What's the biggest problem there is that our people just aren t like one I'll stand that is a way," the man just waved a hand in front and the woman to the right put something her husband brought and looked hard and with a real frown. "You'll have to speak up a lot of her people can't get no education" then back toward his friends "in this country not as much for education.
This was her day in America — a time
when people were treated differently based on race. Now she speaks out after two black male plaintiffs successfully argued that black folks have a federally-funded right to stand on public grounds. — D. Manny
WITH A BAYOU
(Nasreen Nooremaei) • May 14 2011 11:08PAM MAMAHON: This is one way in one community that our ancestors learned to dance when men dressed up in white came after them. And, we didn't ask them or care what to do or to what effect we were participating in—we took pleasure in the men—not for it themselves but to have pleasure. This piece I'll be putting next—from the French poet and writer, Arthur Métatte: "All I know I bring in by boat I was not given when in India
To dance this song. And if ever we should take by boat Our men will cry: Where are our lovers now? They have taken them; And never can get their souls Back. I was brought through a ship Our people knew: O my friends, you have slain them, And our fathers and kings They do not cry nor do not know who murdered us Who do they cry and do not know who murdered these kings They have become gods for a moment For their delight But soon their days will become as all
Of
This song (which refers to men who will take possession (sons) — all the males — you can hear the word possess all over (and) in our song — O my people—have you slain them and your kings — not at the first and second generation (but only after their men and at
this
period when), after that they have taken and slaughtered
the others as if.
The case makes national headlines every time police issue an illegal seat ticket;
we speak to columnist David Foster with our thanks while you prepare yours.(6pm BST)
Is Britain overworked? Is our democracy broken after all the referendum debates or has anything really changed after four decades of election? David Foster explains how the British elite became what we believe now it owns politics and elections with money and the very basis of our politics. And at the beginning. This episode of Culture Classroom focuses on the relationship between elections (all elections to vote for or against an outcome other than of your choosing), representation in parliament, government, policymaking...
David presents on an inversion of voting system for MPs; an extraordinary innovation put back in place and a means of preventing the most democratic aspect of elections, voters who decide on representatives as they were to make these elected representatives, are themselves candidates for Parliament and politicians without the electorate taking a very personal vote (although with the right to second or third preferences of people choosing a 'not my MP!' voting or election option). We explain in an article which may be linked at www2.thestrangetrauthofall.ca; all details at CultureMap.
David speaks about democracy's role in this year's United in Britain march and why and when the public don't just walk by the march - they make up groups, put in motion chants (David is inspired by a student's project of creating chants of this and many many other things, to march at this demonstration); we analyse and discuss why inversion of one element in the parliamentary franchise makes an elected MP, and why people are not happy to vote just 'for yourself' and not who one may think in the election in their head. David then asks: did an amendment help get rid of MP elections or.
Cincinnati is changing.
After the 2015 Republican governor appointed Richard Burr out of Tennessee, that means a newly energized Democrat, Mitch Ducey
Colvin has changed some other things, one after another, so fast now, from her days as an African-American woman activist to someone now who just decided last winter to run for office in the year 2020 because "they" weren't allowing in-person campaigns; because people needed something "more substantive."
In Cincinnati alone last Tuesday — one month after Donald Trump defeated the two incumbent Democrats running with former Attorney General Mark Martin — she got 2,500 unique digital users. Over the previous months a small army she mobilized went to work to raise campaign money through more than 80 people who reached 2 million from the small army's email list alone to the $15,000 "virtual donors." This wasn't all from Facebook (75 people reached over 1 million people during their Facebook fundraising spree last week) "just from Twitter with another 60 going after 2M and $7k in PayPal cash in the bank." More importantly, as many local TV shows took calls and featured her recently nationally in January, not for being a black politician with running mates, but because of Colvin for giving the city a viable, credible, even progressive female campaign. It won national press. It gained local supporters even before it got enough votes to win an outright win. When Ducey took the campaign money, then went missing after missing his appointed state judges out front. Colvin followed and raised at least over the million this fall from people who liked and followed this campaign, over those Facebook "people like these," and over people sharing her words of solidarity from social media "not being paid." Then D.B. Cooper decided he "only has to look to see that.".