Being a black woman in America
(Foreward: I wrote this post sometime last year - mid summer probably and it stayed in my "drafts" ever since. Never touching it. Browsing on Facebook I came across an entry on For Harriet about being comfortable in your own (black) skin. God's timing could not have been more perfect.)
As I read from Essence Magazine an article about black women being successful, it hit me like I need to vent. I was hanging out with my friends this weekend and we ended up on the subject about black women. The topic was US.
This has been a topic lately that a lot of my friends have been discussing. Being a black woman in America. Being a single black woman as well and how hard it is to have a man. Now the girl I was with was in relationship and said it herself that black women are at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to dating, last picking in the work place and not considered as beautiful. To hear her say that was shocking to me. I also had this talk with another one of my friends who in my eye and the eyes of others is very successful for her age, beautiful and single, say the same thing.
Black women are at the bottom of the line.
Most of the time the disgrace comes from our very own black men. These men are the ones who come from beautiful black women, yet choose other races to date, marry and have them the mother of their children. What I am saying, is currently, black women are finding it very hard to survive, find love, build a career and be taken seriously. Instead, we are letting certain industries ruin our image.
I am a YouTube fanatic. And when I find a great video to watch, I feel like I hit the jackpot.
Issa Rae, from Awkward Black Girl Series has done it again with her new video series Rachtetpiece Theatre. And although the title of the series sounds crazy, her sarcastic demeanor, vulgar language and explanatory breakdowns of the videos have a twisted truth to them or those who are intelligent enough to understand what she says. In her recent post about Juicy J she makes a mockery out of the artist as well as the women that he describes in his song and ask the same question we find ourselves asking in plain English: "Are you kidding me? This couldn't be right? Is this what we have resorted too?" Here I am or have been working hard and reading educating myself just to be broke where as these other girls with little to no education are being called the queens and being "wifed up". The slang term "Hoes be winning" comes to mind and makes me wonder and think about what is it that they are doing that I am not doing?
I don't get it.
I don't think I will ever will.
-Denii
As I read from Essence Magazine an article about black women being successful, it hit me like I need to vent. I was hanging out with my friends this weekend and we ended up on the subject about black women. The topic was US.
This has been a topic lately that a lot of my friends have been discussing. Being a black woman in America. Being a single black woman as well and how hard it is to have a man. Now the girl I was with was in relationship and said it herself that black women are at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to dating, last picking in the work place and not considered as beautiful. To hear her say that was shocking to me. I also had this talk with another one of my friends who in my eye and the eyes of others is very successful for her age, beautiful and single, say the same thing.
Black women are at the bottom of the line.
Most of the time the disgrace comes from our very own black men. These men are the ones who come from beautiful black women, yet choose other races to date, marry and have them the mother of their children. What I am saying, is currently, black women are finding it very hard to survive, find love, build a career and be taken seriously. Instead, we are letting certain industries ruin our image.
I am a YouTube fanatic. And when I find a great video to watch, I feel like I hit the jackpot.
Issa Rae, from Awkward Black Girl Series has done it again with her new video series Rachtetpiece Theatre. And although the title of the series sounds crazy, her sarcastic demeanor, vulgar language and explanatory breakdowns of the videos have a twisted truth to them or those who are intelligent enough to understand what she says. In her recent post about Juicy J she makes a mockery out of the artist as well as the women that he describes in his song and ask the same question we find ourselves asking in plain English: "Are you kidding me? This couldn't be right? Is this what we have resorted too?" Here I am or have been working hard and reading educating myself just to be broke where as these other girls with little to no education are being called the queens and being "wifed up". The slang term "Hoes be winning" comes to mind and makes me wonder and think about what is it that they are doing that I am not doing?
I don't get it.
I don't think I will ever will.
-Denii
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