Tameka: The Plagiarism Accusation Is An Unfounded Insinuation That Has No Basis, Merit Or Truth
Posted by Media Outrage on August 23rd, 2009
Tameka Foster-Raymond took to GlobalGrind and responded to the accusations of plagiarism by an author. She denies stealing anyone’s work for the piece she wrote on Dark Skinned vs Light Skinned. Peep her response
Via Global Grind:
Sooo a ridiculous rumor has emerged that the recent blog entry I wrote for the Huffington Post was plagiarized. Wow!! This is an unfounded insinuation that has no basis, merit or truth. I’ve never heard of this author or her book until Thursday afternoon. African-American women struggling with complexion issues is not a novel or an original topic. It’s an issue that has been written about for ages. Numerous African-American publications and online sites have addressed this topic. Even the Tyra Banks Show devoted an entire segment to it.
I shared my personal story as a dark skinned woman in America, an experience that parallels millions of other Black women. Regrettably, this other author has no copyright (or patent) on the Black female experience. While I’m delighted to discover there is a new book with a similar theme available I only wish the author would have embraced our commonality as sisters in this struggle rather than opt for such a defamatory public recourse via a disreputable gossip writer. Approach is everything. Plagiarism is a serious implication that I’m extremely disheartened and insulted by. If this author can produce the same references in her book that I made to Alek Wek, poet Khalil Gibran, an experience in Brazil, disparaging public comments surrounding living as a “dark skinned” woman as well as scrutiny regarding her marriage to an R&B singer then perhaps she should seek legal counsel to handle this matter with the proper protocol.
Lastly I want to express my sincere gratitude to Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Alex Haley, Susan Taylor, Khalil Gibran, Langston Hughes, Frederick Douglass and Zora Neale Hurston, just a few renowned authors who have touched on this similar subject and who I have indeed read and been inspired by.
Mediaoutrage- Well we guess the ball is in the author’s court to make a move. If you feeling froggy than leap.
August 23rd, 2009 at 8:34 pm
LIAR!! LOL!
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August 23rd, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Tell em girls these bishes like crabs always clawing n trying to tear each other dwn n the same struggle
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August 23rd, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Whatever!
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August 24th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Wateva bish! Go do some crunches!
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August 24th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
too…many…big…words..in…one…sentence……getting a migraine
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August 24th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
@ MO, should theat be THEN… ‘If you feeling froggy THEN leap’.
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August 24th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Let me do it again…
@MO, shouldn’t that be THEN… ‘If you feeling froggy THEN leap’.
LOL @ my ass for correcting u while making mistakes, haha… need to read before submitting, i think i’m forgetting my ‘keys’, lol
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August 24th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
I love how Tameka likes to portray a ‘lady like’ image & always take the supposed high road. How easily the media forgets she was a lying, cheating adulterer who left her husband & kids to trade up for Usher. Oh well. Plagiarism is probably the least of her concerns….
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