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Have a red, white and blue

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Be brave, be independent, be free. Find your true colors and

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From the Publisher

Sheril [email protected]

Cover Artist

Dorothea Renault was born

in Germany and currently lives

near Paris, where she studied

advanced graphic and visual

art. After having started work

as a freelance art director, she

started to focus on illustration

in 2000. Her interpretation of

women has been shown in

collaboration with clients like

L’Oreal, Printemps, Burton,

Nivea, Gemey-Maybelline,

Bourjois, and Musée Galliera

de la Mode in Paris. With the

agency Harrison-Wolf, she

created a large illustration

in 2006, which covered the

whole building of the Société

Générale headquarters in

Paris. Recently, her illustrations

decorated the windows of

Printemps for the campaign

“Young Married Couple”

and publications such as The

Big Book of Fashion Illustration

and The Big Book of Illustration

Ideas featured her selected

illustrations. From the Editor

Last year, my young son decided to dig a hole in our backyard. The purpose? To create a super-

secret bunker, perfect as a hideout during Nerf Wars. Now, our backyard is actually a large red-

clay-hardened field littered with rocks, so excavation was no small feat. Periodically, throughout the

year, I’d catch a glimpse of him digging away, inch-by-inch, layer-by-layer, until he had a boy-sized hole

perfect for jumping out of and scaring the bejeezus out everyone, the dog included. My husband and

I, weary, scared, and battle-scarred from the current recession, used this event to symbolize 2010,

which we laughingly refer to now as “The Year of the Black Hole.” As much as we hated that difficult

year, though, our son also reminded us that sometimes your true colors come out for a cause, and

determination and commitment can conquer pressure. This month for our Red, White & True Blue

Issue, we not only feature local entrepreneurs who work with color—but those who’ve shown their

true colors by maintaining and even prospering in a tough economy. To these spirited individuals and

others like them, we salute you!

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The United Skirts of

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I’m happiest and most confident when I’m dressed in New York black from

throat to tattoo to tights to tall boots. I feel like I take up less room, that I

can move through the world more easily, that I can fit in anywhere. Brightly

colored clothes make me nervous, less coherent, unsettled in my body. Under

my black disguise, though, I feel crimson, fiery red and scarlet, but it makes

me uncomfortable to reveal that side of my self. My high school boyfriend

nicknamed me “Red,” and I loved it because of the sultry way he said it, but

also because it made me feel like he saw my true colors, the woman I could

become. That girl had the potential to be a bomb exploding in the world,

a bonfire, a siren, a red convertible, a matador’s red cape...danger danger

danger! Somewhere along the way to adulthood that part of my personality

went underground, suppressed but still smoldering. When I’m blasting real

rock and roll (not emo acoustic!) full tilt in my car, I remember Red. When

I let myself lose my temper instead of being passive-aggressively pathetic,

I see Red. When I follow my instincts even though everyone doubts me,

Red is there. Does everyone walk around with a true self curled up inside

just waiting to unfold? To be Red?

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Once, the hillside on the north side of town looked just like any other. I still pass it almost every day, since the adjacent roadway parallels the main thoroughfare and offers a sce-nic shortcut that bypasses stores, stop lights and slow-moving traffic. But I will never get used to the sight of it.

In winter or spring, when long green wands of grass mat the hill, waving gently when the wind is up,

you might almost imagine you are seeing a garden of strange white flowers. Now July heat has singed the slope brown, and the view is jarringly unobstructed—thousands of crosses stand stark in the afternoon sun.

One cross is planted for every soldier killed in Iraq or Afghanistan—one goodbye, one wordless reminder. I wonder whether the commuters emerging from the transit station parking lot across the road even notice the hillside any-more, or if the sight is something you can get used to and simply stop seeing, like the pines stretching up to the sky behind the memorials. How many passengers in the cars sweeping by at rush hour know that the tiny crosses are for the child victims, or that the atomic symbols are for those who died from depleted ura-nium? Stakes are topped with crescent moons, dharma wheels, Stars of David, pentacles, for troops who were Buddhist, Jewish, Islamic, Pagan. Not a single body is buried here, but the markers shout the news that they are indisputably gone. The tidy block numerals on the death-tally sign next to the crosses read “6,160” a month ago.

The man who created the memorial project looks almost as ordinary as the hill once did. I met him in the grocery a few years ago and realized that the lanky guy who stood in line just in front of me, mid-fifties maybe, in jeans and a faded red work shirt, looked awfully familiar. When the Safeway clerk handed his card back and said, “Here you go, Mr. Heaton,” I knew it was the same Jeff Heaton who’d been featured so often on the evening news.

He looks like the building contractor he happens to be, not a vigilante or a crackpot, though he’s been called both. He doesn’t look especially like a hero. When I spoke with him long enough to convey my thanks, I was struck by his engaging, rueful smile and quiet voice—a man who, from all appearances, would rather not have been the center of controversy but just can’t help being himself.

Jeff began pounding the crosses into the hill in 2003, on land owned by his friend Louise and her veteran husband. He started with only 19, intending a simple tribute to those who had died in the war in Iraq. Vandals ripped out all of

the crosses overnight, which devastated him, but he didn’t give up. Three years later, on Veterans Day, with the help of a group of volunteers, he came back and planted 300 more. The project had begun in earnest.

One tenacious man, one hill, a town ignited. Jean, a former U.S. Marine, promptly and publicly tore down the death-tally sign, furious at what she con-sidered a memorial mocking the dead and inciting anti-war protests. Karen, a mother whose only son, a 26-year-old Army tank commander, was killed in com-bat, was happy to see the crosses and couldn’t understand why so many others found it offensive. “If children are dying in their names, they should understand it and see it every day.”

Television crews made the hill a regular reporting stop, while commut-ers and residents tried to decide if the hill was a testament or a travesty. The Lafayette Flag Brigade, an organization that welcomes soldiers arriving home, claimed that the hill was an insult to the troops and their families. But every week I saw little clusters of people, grateful mothers and brothers who came for candlelight vigils, winding their way up the steep path of steps on the hill or meandering among the crosses to view the ones representing their family members. More vandals smashed the memorials by night, while by day, pro-tests against the war and against the monument itself turned the town into a battleground as fiercely divided as any other. Eventually the controversy erupted before the City Council, which had the power to determine whether the crosses would stay.

Six years have passed since the residents of my town fought against one an-other. Cries of outrage have died down to a murmur. One morning each month, people gather for silent meditation and prayer on the crowded slope before vol-unteers arrive to weed, repair and add new crosses. A volunteer unscrews the numerals on the sign and changes the tally, ever greater. It doesn’t even represent the real total of deaths, since there are soldiers who died later of injuries, both mental and physical. A news truck might stop by on Memorial Day, but the town has decided to commit to its hillside monument. People don’t talk about it on the street anymore.

I’m glad I live in a town that can still get angry about death, no matter the apparent causes. The tally sign is painfully real, the toll of our larger war sobering and grim. No one knows who to blame, but sheer numbers make it clear that young lives lost this way inspire sorrow, not celebration. Last night when I drove by the hill on my way home, some of the markers had tiny lights winking up from them, a few had flower garlands. Street lamps illuminated the multitude of crosses, quiet testaments to broken promises. In the dark of evening, they could have been thousands of white banners on a prayer flag. I hope the day never comes when a single one of us will be able to drive right past without seeing red.

Stacy Appel

Stacy Appel is an award-winning writer in California whose work has been featured in the Chicago Tribune and other publications. She has also written for National Public Radio. She is a contributor to the book You Know You’re a Writer When...Contact Stacy at [email protected].

I’m glad I live in a town that can still get angry about death, no matter the apparent causes.


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In 2003, I was a bridesmaid in the wedding of a longtime friend. At the reception, the mother of another childhood friend, whom I had not seen in over a decade, saw my name on the program and decided to search the banquet hall for me to say hello. When she finally found me she said, “People kept pointing to you saying ‘That’s Javacia’ but I didn’t believe them. You’ve gotten so dark. But don’t worry, you’re still pretty.”

Like most people in my family, I was born with fairly light skin and it stayed that way during early childhood. But as I got older, my skin got darker, something I never thought twice about until person after person kept offering unsolicited com-fort telling me that I was still pretty despite my dark skin.

I was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, a city whose name is, unfor-tunately, synonymous with racial conflict. I’m not saying that colorism, prejudice or discrimination is solely a Southern problem. The fact that skin color seems to play a role in Hollywood makes me pretty certain it is not. But when I lived on the West Coast in the East Bay Area of California and in Seattle, Washington, and even during my five years of working in Louisville, Kentucky, the comments about my skin color ceased.

So when I decided to move back to Birmingham in 2009, the reemergence of the remarks caught me off guard. I had a hard time shaking them off like I did in the past because I was out of practice.

Comments from family members were the harshest and most hurtful, espe-cially in the summer when my chocolate skin boasted a tan thanks to my love for outdoor walks and runs.

“Why are you so dark?” they’d ask, disgust in their voices. “You need to stop exercising outside.”

Meanwhile, I have frequently overheard some of my black female students discussing their complexions and expressing their wish that they had lighter skin. They’ve even stopped me and other teachers in the hall asking, “Would you de-

scribe my skin as caramel or chocolate?” and rejoiced each time someone an-swered caramel.

While I do not think that black men are exempt from this problem (my family always had something negative to say when I dated darker men.) it seems that colorism hurts and hinders black women more. A former lov-er even once told me that he found black women with lighter skin more at-tractive because their complexion made them look more feminine than darker women. And we can’t forget the rapper who was quoted as saying he doesn’t do “dark butts.” While most recognized that this statement was ri-diculous, dark-skinned women are still hard to find in music videos, movies, and magazines.

Though I do see some mainstream publications such as Glamour doing a better job of including images of African-American women, finding dark-skinned black women in the media as a whole continues to be difficult. Music videos frequently feature fair-skinned, racially ambiguous women. Perhaps this is in re-sponse to complaints from black women about how negatively they were repre-sented in hip-hop videos. Perhaps rappers decided that since we didn’t like the way we were featured in their videos, they wouldn’t feature us at all.

However, if colorism is a problem rooted in decades, even centuries, of hurtful history, what can I or anyone else do about it? I don’t have an an-swer. I only have more questions, such as, how can darker-skinned women maintain healthy self-esteem in the midst of the comments that now sur-round me since I’ve returned home? A girl can only take so much before she starts to wonder, “Does my dark skin make me less attractive?” And how can we support darker-skinned women without alienating black women with fair skin?

For now I will simply continue to write things like this in hopes that people who read will check themselves for any attitudes of colorism, and I will do what I can to make sure young women of all colors know they’re beautiful.

And in the meantime, my dark skin and I will continue to enjoy outdoor walks and still be pretty.

Javacia Harris Bowser

Javacia Harris Bowser is a freelance journalist, essayist, and educator. She blogs at georgiamae.com.

“You’ve gotten so dark. But don’t worry, you’re still pretty.”


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How long has it been?” my 10 year-old asks from the back-in-the-back of the very-packed minivan. Her teenaged sisters, one snoozing in iPod-land and the other scrutinizing InStyle, have staked out every inch of the middle backseat and every last millimeter of spare aisle, elbow or leg room in the car. Poor Claire

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Ten minutes later I get the exact same question. “Ten minutes, give or take one or two,” I answer. “You sure? It felt like longer,” Claire asks, and I know what she means.

Everything feels longer on a long, hot road trip, especially when vacation is over and we’re trudging back toward reality.

“Sorry. Keep at it,” I encourage, and Claire ducks her Florida-tanned face back in to her book, just in time to miss yet another juicy Adam & Eve Romance Superstore billboard.

I’m not annoyed by her annoying questions; I’m thrilled. This isn’t clas-sic “are we there yet” obnoxiousness, rather, Claire is logging her reading time, turning her turned pages into prizes courtesy of our public library’s “One World, Many Stories” summer reading program. Claire tracks each 15 minutes she reads on a form with five circles per line, each circle an hour, broken into quarters. After coloring in five circles, she gets a medal and a ticket to see our local minor league baseball team. Ten more on top of that and my little bookworm claims tickets to the local pro soccer team and/or karate lessons. Thirty hours nets a tee shirt and entry into the grand prize sweepstakes. “One World, Many Bribes” is more like it, but hey, she’s reading. For now at least.

“Thirty more minutes and I’ll get the medal and RiverDogs ticket!” she announces proudly. “Can we stop at the library before we go home?”

I’ve done this routine with Claire’s older sisters for the last 13 or so summers, and I can tell you how the story ends. The shiny medal quickly loses its sheen, the tracking sheet gets lost, circles get colored in willy-nilly, motivation and interest wane. Before long I’ll be threatening to unplug the cable and harping nonstop about how too much TV—Animal Planet notwithstanding—causes cancer, childhood obesity, global warming and financial ruin. “Taylor Swift reads all the time,” I’ll add, using my writerly literary license.

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I remember the summer I was 14 or 15, the summer of The Thorn Birds. It was the first time I really got pulled into a book’s undertow. I remember lying on a sandy towel at a beach in North Carolina, baking for hours as I sunk further into the passionate saga, my mother and sisters on the beach beside me but clueless about the world of Australian sheep farms and forbidden romance that I was vicariously living in. I can still feel the heft of the soft, worn paperback, still see its cheesy ‘70s font on the mustard yellow cover clear as day.

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