There’s a saying, “To be African American is to be African without history and American without privilege.”

This is the pervasive attitude that helps the perception that black women aren’t women and black children aren’t children just smaller versions of black men (and thus never in need of protection )

She was not “attacking back”. She was defending herself. There is a legal difference, and those have ramifications. If the company tries to fire her and she gets a smart attorney, like one of these who have been taking the families’ cases in all these police shootings in the back, they may well find themselves on the…

“She can handle herself”

Nah, as a manager at Taco Bell in 1990, a drunk customer came in from the drive thru and laid hands on an employee of mine. I laid hands on the customer, and physically threw him out of the restaurant so hard he crossed the street and his friends had to go pick him up. I got fired the next day, went home, and slept the…

Even though I’m glad Ol’ Girl stood up for herself and beat the last few hairs off this man’s head, I agree that it’s sad it came to this. He would have NEVER even THOUGHT to yoke up a white woman like that, MUCH LESS in front of a bunch of strangers, at her own.goddamn.job. As much as I enjoyed seeing her serve those…

She beat the inner monologue out of him.

Agreed. This is where that tired-ass “strong black woman” trope bites us in the ass. Aren’t black women allowed to be vulnerable? Aren’t we deserving of help and protection? This is some left over slave mentality ish at work here, and it needs to stop.

“If the dude would have connected a punch on the girl, they definitely would have stepped in to stretch dude all the way out.” No they wouldn't have cuz they DIDN'T!

Every Damn Day!

There are a lot of people saying it. Both things can be true at the same time — but the whole point is for about 70,000 reasons, she shouldn’t have to “handle it”.  The point really isn’t whether she did or not.

100% agree. Those who are saying “she didn’t need help” or she was “handling it herself” as an excuse for why men of equal weight and size to her attacker stood by are fucking trash. I’m livid that black women are always left to handle this shit by ourselves while weak ass men do nothing. A white woman, even if…

I just hope she’s not fired for defending herself. We see that shit too often.

For everyone who is very chill and just enjoyed watching the fight - This is how mysoginoir plays out. I am horrified at watching a white man grab a little black girl almost by her neck and drag her across a counter like she was a rag doll! Does no one feel like she deserves protection/shelter? She shouldn’t have to de…

You said it all, sadly. So fucking tired of us being alone in this fight so often.

THESE sisters stood up for the cashier, this is how it’s done - you mess with one of us, you are messing with all of us - yet NONE of the men in the St Petersburg McDonald’s incident reported above did though. In fact they physically held the sister back, not the aggressor!

He’ll be needing that straw now.

“I couldn’t control you,”

Everyone in this administration needs to die in a fire.

Next thing you’ll say I can’t lick the beaters when I make a cake. That is a world I don’t want to live in.