Taylor Fladgate blends its magnificent 20 year old tawny Ports from its extensive reserves of old cask aged Ports matured in the firm’s cool and tranquil cellars (known as ‘lodges’) in Oporto on Portugal’s Atlantic coast. Here, over many years of ageing, the Port wine gradually takes on its characteristic amber ‘tawny’ color, slowly developing the complex mellow flavors and the smooth luscious palate which are the hallmarks of this style of port. 20 Year Old Tawny Port is fully matured in seasoned oak casks each holding about 630 liters of wine. Respectability Politics: A mirror into the black communityTaylor Fladgate is one of the most highly respected producers of aged tawny Port wines. In an effort to Break the Cycle of a People Divided, this presentation will utilize the aforementioned topics to highlight and pinpoint the issues surrounding respectability politics and propose ways members of our community can re-examine respectability politics and potentially rewrite the rules. Lastly, this presentation will examine respectability politics’ role in elitism and exclusion in social structures in our community, and how it perpetuates division among the members of the Black community. Next, it will examine respectability politics as it relates to social activism, and how differing desired approaches to achieve equality can result in a divided community. First, this presentation will examine how respectability politics can encourage members of the Black community to police each other’s behaviors through society’s notion of professionalism, resulting in division and a sometimes desired severance from our roots. This presentation is related to the conference’s theme, “Breaking the Cycle of a People Divided,” in the following ways. This presentation will focus on and thus, discuss three areas in which respectability politics are most common: professionalism, social activism, and elite groups/hierarchical social structures. ![]() In efforts to reduce the prevalence of this issue, however, program facilitators will provide audience members with strategies for enduring and overcoming issues of respectability. In addition to this, audience members will be provided a number of examples and be asked to critically analyze the shortcomings of racialized policing behaviors. In accomplishing this goal, audience members will be provided with a brief history of the concept of respectability. The secondary aim of this presentation is to inform audience members of the dangers associated with societal practices that perpetuate elitism and exclusion within the African American community. To accomplish this desired goal, scholarly research and advanced sociology theory will guide this demonstration. In achieving such, this presentation seeks to create a safe space for African Americans to engage in deep and meaningful conversations related to respectability. The primary purpose of this presentation is aimed at facilitating a thought-provoking discussion centered around respectability politics. By gaining a deeper knowledge of how racialized policing behaviors negatively affect our community, we aim to provide audience members with strategies for enduring and overcoming this issue. More specifically, this presentation seeks to prompt audience members to critically evaluate the social practices of African American people that are deeply-seated in elitism and promote a culture of exclusion. ![]() This presentation seeks to provoke deep and meaningful discussion related to issues of respectability within the African American community.
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