News Flash: Black Women Do Stuff Like Worry About Bills and Pray - COLORLINES
Stereotypes of black women shape the way society views them and ultimately how black women view each other. The article argues that black women have not been able to define themselves because the media insists on do it for them. Black women have been consistently labeled as strong, angry, no- man having church goers and many have subsequently fallen into those categories. It's not that black women haven't been telling our side of the story, we have since Sojourner Truth's Aint I a Woman speech. The problem is according to Akiba Solomon "Is that Main Stream Media DON'T LISTEN". So I guess its our job as black women to make them listen make them see who we really are. The next question then is who are "Them" and how can we make them listen.....
