Why are Hoteps calling for the resignation of Ebony’s Senior Editor, Jamilah Lemieux?

Written by Charmelodi

As a woman in a highly respected position and responsible for the impressions placed on the minds of many, Jamilah Lemieux has been deemed irresponsible. With authority comes responsibility and I’m going to unfold how careless she has been with her position of power.

My colleagues and I have been assaulted by this woman and her feminist cult on numerous occasions. Jamilah displays dictatorial qualities, which have been proven time and again by her abrasive actions on Twitter. In the example above, she elected to police my opinion and not only that, in an offensive manner. I’m sure this violates Twitter’s recent mission to curb cyber-bullying.

I find it ironic that this female and her cohorts complain about having their voices silenced and often use the popular term, “erasure,” all while becoming conductors and advocates of this exact same behavior. This is the epitome of hypocrisy. Just because someone does not agree with feminist ideology, which borders on being a cult/gang; disagreement does not call for public castigation.

Others are allowed to express their opinions on feminism; that is not erasure. Erasure is when those people express their opinions and because they don’t their general narrative, they are attacked. Unfortunately, Jamilah is an attacker.

Let’s move on.

Objective journalism has died and Jamilah is a prime example of this fact. The entire feminist agenda is polarized, emotional and there are no facts in sight; only opinions. In her article, “Bill Cosby Probably Had to Google ‘Damon Wayans’ Last Week”, she went out of her way to attack prominent black men. She refers to Damon Wayans as “bizarre & sexist”. Why? Because he doesn’t align with your views? There is no objectivity in her reasoning. Jamilah is a feminist extremist and displays zero tolerance for opposition.

Jamilah has abused her privilege as Senior Editor of the historic brand, Ebony Magazine, and taken advantage of the opportunity to assassinate a black person’s character. The “5 Black Sitcoms to Fill the ‘Cosby’ Void” article she wrote was tasteless and malicious. This is an obvious attempt at damaging his legacy and harming his income. When she refers to Bill Cosby’s defense as, “FINALLY FINISHED”, in another article, it’s almost as if she WANTS to see another black male behind bars. Aren’t we fighting mass incarceration? Whose side are we on? One minute it’s Black Lives Matter and the next you’re jumping on the system’s side. Whatever happened to a fair trial? What happened to innocent until proven guilty? Why is anyone who wants a fair trial for Cosby deemed ‘Hotep’? It must make you sick that Cosby cases are being dismissed and he’s now suing his accusers.

Moving on…

She and the feminist cult/gang are hurt from past relationships with men and it’s showing. They have a very evident hate for black men. They need healing before they step into positions of power because they are toxic and contagious. Spreading hate is not going to calm the black struggle, it will fan the flames if anything. Just because you couldn’t work things out with your baby’s father, doesn’t mean you have to take it out on the world.

And since we’re on the topic, it would be much appreciated if Jamilah would refrain from using the “I am a single mother” line for sympathy because it’s played out. She is NOT a single mother; she is a mother who happens to be single because she CHOSE to be single. Every child has a father. “Single mother” is a title for women who have to raise their children on their own due to circumstances beyond their control. Jamilah is NOT that. Luckily for me, I’ll never be invited to one of her pity parties.

We read your ” I’m a Single Mom, But I Am Also the Greatest Mom of All Time, So There” article and it wreaks of insecurity. In this piece, you stated that your concerns include, “not having on the shortest dress at a someone else’s kid’s birthday party”. It’s the child’s birthday party and all you can think about is how short your dress is? That’s narcissistic behavior as chronicled here and toxic.

This petty division is embarrassing for us Americans of African origin. If we never show solidarity and support each other regardless of personal preferences; how can we demand the same from other races? Notice how we seldom see other races airing out their dirty laundry in public or shaming each other for their various opinions and decisions. This is an every day thing with black people however; a slew of black women attacked me on social media recently because I truly feel that we do NOT need feminism. One RT from Jamilah sent my mentions to feminist Twitter hell. So much for feminism, huh? Black women are supposed to be protecting each other but here they are, looking for a catfight. SMH

Your insecurities with your body could be due to your soda addiction. Soda, which leads to diabetes and other health risks is a large killer of the black community. You should think about laying off of it and suggest a healthier diet to the women that look up to you. That’s just a personal suggestion.

I don’t mind the feminists feeble attempts to ‘drag’ me for my views, it’s quite entertaining, but it makes us all look dysfunctional and trivial. Natural sense dictates that for every up, there must be a down. This is a universal law. For every woman that agrees with feminism, there will be a woman that disagrees. Mainstream platforms are reserved for women like Jamilah who agree with widespread ideologies and women like myself are cast out for having our own minds. This is NOT freedom of speech.

Some of us don’t need an -ism or -schism or -ic to cling to as part of our identity. Not being associated with your gang doesn’t mean you have to call us names, don’t we already have enough people calling us names?

We know you’re unhappy with your life, as we can see from the above tweet, in which you admit to pushing people for “walking too slow”. You’re a bully externalizing internal pain. We ask that you seek help before stepping up to the privilege you’ve been given at Ebony Magazine. We ask that you step down as Senior Editor or stand down by curbing your attitude and start conducting yourself properly as a leader in the black community.

Sincerely,

The Hoteps

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14 Responses

  1. Tommie Reply

    Jamilah Lemieux or Jemima Lemieux as I refer to her as, has no problem pushing her misandristic, Black man loathing brand of “feminism” . Like you’ve said her and her ilk treat their brand of feminism as a divisive cult. She has no problem insulting and antagonizing Black men, but wouldn’t dare play that game with white men. If you remember she referred to that sambo nigger Raffi Williams as a white man. Raffi was so “offended” that he went on a crusade to make Jemima apologize, and ut worked. Why? Because Black feminists only play their game of stupidity when it cones to their liberal white sisters and Black men. White conservatives will punish Black feminists, and rightfully so, and the irony is the Black feminists will STILL try to blame Black men some kind of way.

  3. kenYa Reply

    “Notice how we seldom see other races airing out their dirty laundry in public or shaming each other for their various opinions and decisions.”

    With all due respect…no. And I was vybing with you until about here.

    Saying things like this just pretty much lets me know that either your entire circle is full of only black people, or your circle is diverse but full of people who don’t trust you to have these conversations with you.

    Because I hold public office in a diverse city, I’m exposed to lots of conversations among different minority groups and groups of different nationality, and they ABSOLUTELY air out their own dirty laundry. In fact, when that exposé on nail salons came out, the Asian communities of differing nationalities not only aired themselves out, they aired out EACH OTHER.

    The thing I struggle with the most among “Hoteps” is the fact that things that are literally human nature are always ascribed to opposing sides, without recognizing that the only people who DON’T have to do this are white people… people who already hold all the power. We only “air out our dirty laundry” as a way of currying favor from white- and white-aligned people. It does us no favors. It does not bring us progress. And, most of all, it needs to stop.

  5. itsi lluminati Reply

    LOL @ criticizing her for drinking soda.

    only in 2016 could a blogger accuse a journalist of being irresponsible.

    you also have a typo in your headline.

  6. SBNYC Reply

    Wow. Just wow. You say you’re about building and supporting all Black women, then you put in subtle fat-shaming digs and stereotypical diatribes about Black people and diabetes… because she mentions soda. How petty, elementary and ignorant.

    I’m sorry, but this is why every Twitter philosopher and their followers get no credibility in EDUCATED circles. Just because you have an opportunity to use a mass media platform doesn’t mean that you should use that web camera. Before parting your lips to speak your truth, make sure it’s valid. And sorry, the claptrap I read above is a hot mess, and makes me sad to see someone who’s wasting her (and our) time with a bunch of sad and passé tropes strung together with some finger wagging.

    I don’t prescribe to the whole ‘Hotep’ shaming and identification trend in the Black community, but I will say that this is a simple matter of (1) a lack of education and (2) people with entirely too much time to waste on the Internet. Instead of utilizing tools that White men created to downplay the achievements of all women, how’s about researching Womanism and the principles of rejecting respectability politics in the black community?

    But ha, you won’t, because you think it’s easier to make janky YouTube videos spewing silly anti-feminist diatribes because you get clicks and ‘it gets your brand out there.’ Oh ok girl, the real academics will be over here on the sidelines hoping you get it together someday soon.

  7. Tiana Reply

    Honestly..this is the worst thing I have every read in my entire life. None of your argument make sense. None of your “facts” add up. You come off as an insecure hater with a personal beef with someone who probably doesn’t even know who you are. You want a woman to give up her job because she wasn’t nice to you on the Internet? How juvenile! Take your own advice and step away from your little blog and do some introspection. Figure out why you feel the need to attack women on the Internet while also complaining about women attacking you. Also, read a fucking book…by a creditable author.

  8. Isa Reply

    Lol, this is such a poorly written article. I hope you’re not planning on actually going into the journalism/writing field. Don’t quit your current day job (unless it has something to do with writing; then quit. Quit RIGHT NOW.)

  9. Ras Tafari Reply

    While everything in this article is practically irrefutable, I must point out the hypocrisy. I couldn’t help but roll my eyes at the line “zero tolerance for opposition.” I’ve witnessed this sister and plenty other Twitter Hoteps react in the same fashion to people who disagree with them. There is a deep sense of self-righteousness and arrogance on both parties. That is a reflection of the opposite of progression. I think the “Hoteps,” myself being called one but not embracing the title, are not at all flawed in their mentality. The character is where the flaw is. It really shows their/our age (35 and under). We need to be more humble if we want to make a change. Our (us Hoteps) elders are disappointed in our pretentiousness. We must admit that despite all our reading, we know nothing.
    Sister Char did a fantastic job, however, of uncovering a very deep issue with this Jamilah woman. Social media feminism, and feminism in general, is quite the farce.

  10. Carla Reply

    I’m laughing at your definition of single mother. The term ‘single’ refers to marital status so “single mother” is simply an unmarried mother. It is not by definition an attack on the ‘single’ father, but the fact that you see it as one may mean that you have some biases that you need to address.
    A poorly written article that engaged in the same behavior it was attempting to condemn.

  11. Lynn Reply

    I am a feminist and even though we dont have the same views I respect, and I agree with some of your opinions. But pleaseee do not say that feminsts hate black men or we’re hurt from past experiences because thats just not true, you dont know what people are going through and you cant determine that from tweets. People are mean and they can be assholes sometimes thats life, lets not label that as hate. And the body shaming? Not cool. You’re drawing conclusions and i’m pretty sure you never met her in your life. If you want people to respect your opinons & if you want to build solidarity then you shouldnt act in the same behavior as your attacker and you shouldnt spread false doctrine. We can all come together while holding different opinons but honestly this article is not helping. You clearly dont care about solidarity you just want everyone who reads this to agree with you, hope your next article is better.

  12. Michelle Marie Reply

    I posted a note to your friend’s youtube post. Your friend is obviously intelligent yet as a woman I hear contradictions in her choice of words. The words she uses to deliver her emphatic message negates the message. Her tone and vulgarity are not what you expect to hear from a stay at home mom teaching young minds. As for her attitude toward feminists, she compares feminists to arrogant professionals and loose bar girls. Not a logical argument nor is it researched. It’s an uninformed opinion, which she has a right to express. However if she wants to call for resignations she needs to establish more credibility by doing her research before she speaks on topics such as feminism. As for Jamilah Lemeiux’s I agree she can be rude but her rape comments and attitude toward BC she is on the right track. No absolutely means No. Celebrity status, race irrelevant when it comes to a woman’s choice no one can usurp that right to consent or Not. Unconscious and drugged takes the choice off of the table and he admittedly drugged women and proceeded to engage without their consent. Not at all appropriate nor is it legal. The toughest part for me is that I never had an issue with BC until this issue of violating women. I am especially sad for his wife because she is the beauty and strength behind him and he betrayed her trust and at a time she should be enjoying the fruits of her wholistic academic and leadership work she faces his indiscretions with him. She is the biggest hero. Her denial of the truth is totally understood. I cannot judge her for standing by her husband.

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