Cyber Stalking- What is it?

Cyber Stalking. What is it? What can be done to stop it?

Cyber Stalking is happening to millions of people on the web. Because the stalkers is practically invisible, many victims do not know what to do about stopping it. These stalkers attempt to ruin the people they stalk, and not all victims are children. Some victims are honest webmasters that are maligned by cyber stalkers whom only motive is to blacken the victims names in the eyes of their new found friends and associates on the web.

If you have ever been through this or know someone who is going through it, these links on Cyber Stalking could be useful.

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Florida Cyberstalking Laws

Last updated: July 23, 2012

.784.048  Stalking; definitions; penalties.--

(1)  As used in this section, the term:

(a)  "harass" means to engage in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that causes substantial emotional distress in such person and serves no legitimate purpose.

(b)  "Course of conduct" means a pattern of conduct composed of a series of acts over a period of time, however short, evidencing a continuity of purpose. Constitutionally protected activity is not included within the meaning of "course of conduct." Such constitutionally protected activity includes picketing or other organized protests.

(c)  "Credible threat" means a threat made with the intent to cause the person who is the target of the threat to reasonably fear for his or her safety. The threat must be against the life of, or a threat to cause bodily injury to, a person.

(d)  "Cyberstalk" means to engage in a course of conduct to communicate, or to cause to be communicated, words, images, or language by or through the use of electronic mail or electronic communication, directed at a specific person, causing substantial emotional distress to that person and serving no legitimate purpose.

(2)  Any person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows, harasses, or cyberstalks another person commits the offense of stalking, a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

(3)  Any person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows, harasses, or cyberstalks another person, and makes a credible threat with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear of death or bodily injury of the person, or the person's child, sibling, spouse, parent, or dependent, commits the offense of aggravated stalking, a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

(4)  Any person who, after an injunction for protection against repeat violence, sexual violence, or dating violence pursuant to s. 784.046, or an injunction for protection against domestic violence pursuant to s. 741.30, or after any other court-imposed prohibition of conduct toward the subject person or that person's property, knowingly, willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows, harasses, or cyberstalks another person commits the offense of aggravated stalking, a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

(5)  Any person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows, harasses, or cyberstalks a minor under 16 years of age commits the offense of aggravated stalking, a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

(6)  Any law enforcement officer may arrest, without a warrant, any person he or she has probable cause to believe has violated the provisions of this section.

(7)  Any person who, after having been sentenced for a violation of s. 794.011, s. 800.04, or s. 847.0135(5) and prohibited from contacting the victim of the offense under s. 921.244, willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows, harasses, or cyberstalks the victim commits the offense of aggravated stalking, a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

(8)  The punishment imposed under this section shall run consecutive to any former sentence imposed for a conviction for any offense under s. 794.011, s. 800.04, or s. 847.0135(5).

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Multiracial, Light-Skinned, And Proud in America: - Further Comment On "Who Is Black In America?"

by Evelyn F. Altheimer-Fain

After viewing many of the videos and reading many of the comments on various website about Soledad O'Brien’s “Who is Black in America?”, I have seen more of the same old negativity that cause so much distress among biracial (light-skinned) people in past decades. These videos and the comments have influence the following response. 
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Jealousy and resentment causes nothing and twisted perceptions. Biracial (light-skinned) people need to be more acceptance of WHO they are and love themselves AS they are and not allow comparisons from racists influence them. In addition, there are Black racists as well as White racists, and biracial people have always been their excuse and medium of abusive when their own self-doubts about whom they are and their place in the world arises

In the eyes of people like these, biracial people will always be too “uppity” and will never know their “place”. Old thinking for today, but as it persists on both ends of the color tree. Biracial people need to open their eyes and see what is really being sold to them when they are told (no matter how sweetly or rationally) to choose. They should also stop selling their heritage short. To suppress one part of their racial makeup is to say the part is “no good”. Is this true? I think not, or they would not exist. This denial of their whole heritage has causes nothing but hurt to the racial halves that are shunned to please the undeserving “others”.  This is not only bad thinking it is unhealthy thinking. Seriously, do biracial (light-skinned) people really feel that to be themselves they need the approval from people who are dishing out nothing more than racial bias?

What I am seeing here today is an attempt at brainwashing and I am not buying it. Moreover, as a light-skinned woman of sixty plus I can say, “Get off my back! Accept me or not, but stop labeling me. Stop trying to use my skin color as an excuse for your own insecurities. I will not dishonor one part of my racial heritage to gratify your bias views. If I make you uncomfortable, see a shrink, because I am not trying to make you comfortable with my SKIN.

 I AM BIRACIAL, LIGHT-SKINNED, AND PROUD!

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 Team Lightskinned

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A REVIEW OF CNN’S “WHO IS BLACK IN AMERICA?”

by Evelyn F. Altheimer-Fain

On December 9, 2012 Soledad O'Brien, the CNN anchor on the morning news program Starting Point , aired a documentary that explores Blackness in “Who is Black in America?”.The one hour documentary, brought together some of America’s young people and adults who share one common bond  ^___ they are all children of mixed races struggling to find their place in society that historical has define and unceremoniously rejected them for being neither pure of one race or another.

It is not surprising that many of people borne of mixed parentry interviewed on the show were not even Americans. Most people without Black ancestry cannot see persons of color beyond that surface of their skin. Therefore, if a person was born of one parent or ancestor was Black, then in the eyes of Whites in America that person was also Black. For decades, this line of thinking has been the cause of racial bias, out right hatred, confusion, pain, and unrest among Blacks in America. Since slavery, dark skinned black children watched as lighter skinned children (some that were within the same families) were afforded better opportunities for advantages than they were allowed. Even today without understanding the terms, dark skinned children feel that they fall under the abolished “One Drop” rule or the “Paper Bag” rule of the late 50s and 60s. 

In Soledad O'Brien’s “Who is Black in America?”, it is through discussion and poetry that the interviewees speak of their experiences as a mixed race and of the social pressure to choose, when in truth there is no need to choose what they are is often painful and sometimes violence.

Although, my heredity includes Native American, German, and Black, I can remember being told that because of my light skinned that I was white. When I grew older, I can remember a group of white youths shouting the then dreaded word “N” word as I was returning from school one afternoon. After both incidents, I questioned my mother on what was meant by those statement she being of dark skinned and my father white, had no answer except  “Don’t talk to those people because you are the better to two worlds”. Although elated by her explanation, it did not answer that quest of why there was so much anger in those white youths remark.

I , like many of people of lighted skinned color, was never taught the “One Drop” rule or the “Paper Bag” rule. I simply was not aware of it, and in spite of those two incidents, nothing brought home the meaning of Blackness than the Civil Rights Movement the swept through my hometown of Chicago and turned it inside out. 

Yet, there is an even sadder aspect to who is black in America. More recently, I learned to there was and probably a group of skinned persons in America known historically as the Blue Bloods. These individuals got their name because they so light skinned that their veins are visible through their skin. Although they have a black heredity with many “passing for whites,” they practiced and may still practice segregation of dark skinned black. This type of segregation the Blue Bloods has also added to the racial tension and feeling oppression among dark skinned Blacks in America. There shared a place among those ideas that shark black on black peer oppression and crime.

To add to confusion is the United States Census Bureau 2000 definition of race identity, which continues today.

• "White. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as "White" or report entries such as Irish, German, Scottish, Italian, Near Easterner, Arab, or Polish.

• "Black or African American. A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as 'Black, African Am.' or provide written entries such as Kenyan, Nigerian, or Haitian."   
•  "American Indian and Alaska Native. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America) and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment."

Under today’s Census Bureau classification, the birth of our son with my husband of 34-years, who is  white and of Welsh-Irish descent, makes our son Native American, German, Welsh-Irish and Black. Our son’s wife is Native American and Irish. Our granddaughter who looks all the world white is …. Well you get the picture, and in regard to all this racial diversity among us, we are all simply Americans (Family Ties).

“Who is Black in America?", states that mixed children were the product of rape. While this may be true in some incidents, it is not true in all. In some incident was a mutual arraignment between the white men and their black mistresses. Children from such unions when recognized by their white fathers were often gained more freedom, were educated, and gained more social status and advancements. Read the article “Blue Veins and Kinky Hair: Naming and Color Consciousness in African America” by author Obiagele Lake, and Pigmentocracy 
(Trudier Harris, J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English, Emerita, University of North Carolina, National Humanities Center Fellow)  .

Overall, in “Who is Black in America?” is an informative documentary that exposes the problems of racial identity, but doe not provide a solution for every person of mixed ancestry because for some “Black Experience” are good and some not, which bring into question of peer pressure. 

In conclusion, the right to choose what racial group should be respect like that of a person religious belief. It is a personal choice that should never be subverted to ease the minds of the bias whether White America or otherwise. 

                                                                

UPDATE: Soledad O'Brien’s “Who is Black in America?” was repeated at 2 a.m., Sunday, December 16, 2013 on CNN at 8 p.m. Future repeats unknown.