FEMALE CATALYST
“There isn’t any man out there who has had success without a woman!”
Originally, I wanted to create a tribute to Obama. At the same time, I didn’t want the contributions of women to not be acknowledged. So for every man represented in “Change” there’s a woman. I started out in the 17th century with a man and a woman who needed to survive in their life. Then we go to the 1800′s where you have Sijourner Truth and Frederick Douglas who represented another part of that era where they could go beyond survival and lend their voices to their mission for freedom. So, the first group was about survival, the second voices, which carried us into the 20th century giving birth to Martin Luther King, but it took the spark of Rosa Parks‘ actions to ignite Martin Luther King’s vision to a national level. In the 21st century I don’t believe that Obama would have had the success that he had as quickly as he did without the endorsement of Oprah Winfrey at the Iowa Caucus. If it came out later okay, but I think her timing took him to the level he needed and then the momentum went from there. Like Oprah, we all have the potential to achieve something phenomenal. Every person in “Change” is about humanity. “Ultimately each person represents some form of humanity that anyone from any culture could relate to!”
A VOICE
“Everyone has a voice!”
What concerns me right now is the voice of the union being systematically squashed. It’s very clear what’s going on in the automobile industry. What saddens me, as leaders of the free world, is that the United States went through a series of events that allowed unions to come into fruition and develop some kind of fairness between management and the people who do the hard labor. I listen to the talk about how we have to compete and that labor is cheaper in other countries so therefore we need to go backwards to compete and this does not represent us as leaders. We should be leading by example showing the best way to take care of our labor force. We should not be breaking our promises through loopholes of bankruptcy that take away people’s pensions they were promised.
I find words as equally interesting as images, and what people accept in the vernacular if you hear it over and over again. There’s this term “cost of legacy”, but the fact of the matter is that a company has a legacy because their biggest asset is their employees. When you look at the image “Change” it begins with slavery, which in this country was started as cheap labor. Now we have an administration which campaigns on “We can’t just worry about Wall St. we have to worry about Main St.,” and I don’t hear Main St. being taken care of lately. For the auto makers to not get the assistance that will allow unions to be able to thrive in this country is not to me a marriage of Main St. and Wall St. It’s actually a going backwards and regressing.
“That saddens me because as leaders we should be teaching all these third world countries that you’re not supposed to have people work to death so I can buy a bag in this country!” I would rather pay more money and know the jobs are going to be there and find a way to raise our salaries instead of the top 2% getting an unfair balance. I think about what Bush Sr. said about the trickle down effect being one of destruction not growth.
“We have long bought into the 45 year plan: We go to school, learn a trade, and go out into the world to get a job in our field. We work until we’re 65, get a nice pension, 401K, and social security. This needs to be analyzed because what’s happening now is people are being misplaced out of that system losing their jobs and the savings that went with it! The truth is 95% of the population continue to work believing that they are creating financial independence when in actuality they are contributing to the ever growing wealth of the top 5%. A fortunate consequence is that this is forcing people to look at other options. People are realizing that the dreams that they had on the back burner can actually lead them to financial independence instead. So we are seeing a rise in the entrepreneurial spirit and the creation of residual income which is exciting and empowering!”
- Blane shares his observation
We get so caught up in the drastic and negative side of what’s going on that we fail to see what’s going on underneath. All these new and wonderful developments are actually surfacing as well! The other thing that I love about technology is that it’s Ageless, Genderless, and Cultureless. You can basically open up a company and work with people all over the world and whatever prejudices you have must melt away because you can only look at the accomplishments of that person, and that’s one thing I do love! This is evening the playing field for some groups of people.
“I think we’re going to come back big, I really do!”
End of Part 2 of 4
Victoria Medina is the founder and photograhic artist of Numina Images Gallery.
Blane Charles is an author, designer and wellness consultant. Blane has ten years of experience working abroad in Canada, Europe, Japan and South Africa, and eight years experience as an Evening Wear specialist / Personal Shopper at Barneys NY. Blane has become his clients’ “Secret Weapon!“
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