Here’s the thing: everyone *should* look at Serena Williams and be blown away. She’s powerful. She’s strong. She’s the best athlete alive. She’s brilliant, kind, funny, accomplished. And stunningly beautiful. But the world cannot “let” her be all those things, because she is black.
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I’m gonna assume you’re creating a parody of precisely the problem Damon is outlining and describing in this very article and not that you actually see this as justification for “hating black men and being woke”.
True, because the criticisms of things that a group does means you are anti-that group.
I DON’T NEED WHITE WOMEN TO TELL ME THAT I SHOULD BE TREATED AS YOUR EQUAL, IDIOT. YOU are the one obsessed with white people. I don’t have to bring them up to discuss the issues within our community. You know that wanting equality at home and at work, safety, and respect are not white things? You clearly don’t…
I’m going to be honest, but that sounds very similar to the argument all lives matter folks keep using to which black lives matter folks have to continually respond that it doesn’t take away for you and to recognize a problem that affects others. It’s not a zero-sum game. I don’t if that’s hiw you meant it, but that’s…
Wonder why concerns about black women are automatically anti-black male. This comment pretty much is EXACTLY the point he’s making. Wow.
Your answer reveals your ignorance of the immense work that black women did for the feminist movement, even as far back as the 1850s (hello, Ida B. Wells). Your ignorance is just as bad as how white feminists tried to keep black women from being visible in the movement, just as black men kept black women out of view…
There’s no false narrative. Damon is not saying anything that black women haven’t been saying for the longest time. The fact that you are ignoring his writings and subsequently dismissing the words of black women is only proving his point.
Way to prove his point!
So you gonna blame all that one feminism instead of the true culprit, white supremacy? You focusing on demonizing feminism has you overlooking the system that oppresses black men and women. Do you know black women go to prison too? That black women also get murdered by the police and that cop will also go free?
Disagree. The Root has always been straight forward. The article speaks the truth. And sometimes that truth hurts. We gotta do better for all of us for all of us to do better.
Why is talking about the reality of what Black women face anti-Black male? We are always told we’re being divisive when we talk about what’s going on. It’s a great way to silence us and nothing has to change. This has nothing to do with white people and what they want.
This sounds very similar to the conversation currently ongoing in the LGBT+ community in that Gay Men and to a lesser extent Lesbian Women are the ones who’ve been the rallying cases of and the main benefits to initiatives focused at the community and that they’ve just as badly treated other minorities within the…
Given enough time, white people can be redeemed no matter how heinous the sin. Beat your wife and create a hostile workplace for women? Just take a few months out of the limelight and you’ll be ready to be forgiven in the media.
Screamy Spice gets an Emmys cameo. Goebbels-wannabe Bannon gets a platform on “60 Minutes.” The only one told to shut up and go away is a woman.
Take out the probably and I fit the description. For all the white people that are about to post in the greys, first, fuck you, secondly, it’s akin to when you excuse law enforcement for killing a black person, and thirdly, fuck you again.
Hot take: It’s why many of us rooted for OJ back in 94/95 knowing full well he probably did it.