I was told as a young girl I had to be careful how I dressed because I was more voluptuous than a white woman. I had to be careful how I spoke because raising my voice brought up the stereotypical mad black woman. I have to press or use chemicals on my hair because my natural hair or braids wasn't professional. I was raised by my mother who was white and my father who was black. I was told coming up I was too black to be white and too white to be black. As an adult I proudly claim I am a black woman and I will roar for all my sisters who were raised by society to believe being our authentic selves is too much that we need to tone it down. No I will be the stereotypical mad black woman because we have always saved America and we are the mother of the human race. White women are not who we should be compared to we are beautiful in our natural form.
Melissa, anger is a natural emotion and to imply that a Black woman isn’t entitled to feel or to express emotion is gaslighting so tired and old that it was coal lighting when it began and it will be nuclear lighting long after you and have transpired!
This is so powerful. Your words, and Langston Hughes’ poem. Our history of White Power has brought me to despair and the belief that human nature is rotten to the core. I am so ready for some Black Woman Power to restore my faith in humanity. Hope springs eternal!
I was told as a young girl I had to be careful how I dressed because I was more voluptuous than a white woman. I had to be careful how I spoke because raising my voice brought up the stereotypical mad black woman. I have to press or use chemicals on my hair because my natural hair or braids wasn't professional. I was raised by my mother who was white and my father who was black. I was told coming up I was too black to be white and too white to be black. As an adult I proudly claim I am a black woman and I will roar for all my sisters who were raised by society to believe being our authentic selves is too much that we need to tone it down. No I will be the stereotypical mad black woman because we have always saved America and we are the mother of the human race. White women are not who we should be compared to we are beautiful in our natural form.
Melissa, anger is a natural emotion and to imply that a Black woman isn’t entitled to feel or to express emotion is gaslighting so tired and old that it was coal lighting when it began and it will be nuclear lighting long after you and have transpired!
This is so powerful. Your words, and Langston Hughes’ poem. Our history of White Power has brought me to despair and the belief that human nature is rotten to the core. I am so ready for some Black Woman Power to restore my faith in humanity. Hope springs eternal!
As a white man, please permit me to say that America to the Black Woman has always been the "strange fruit" sung by the immortal Billie Holiday.
Vote Black Women.