![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We are told we are irrational, crazy, out of touch, entitled, disruptive and not team players. Angry Black Women get dismissed all the time. Owning anger is a dangerous thing if you’re a fat black girl like me. But it’s unclear whether we are really being taken seriously. Black women who hold their communities together also hold our broader American community together. Black women turn to sass when rage is too risky - because we have jobs to keep, families to feed, and bills to pay. But this is not a sassy black girl’s tale. Not wanting to offend this woman who I otherwise really liked, I simply said, “We’re not all like that.” She looked disappointed. She loved it, she said, when black women put their hands on their hips and swiveled their necks in protest. To her, these stereotypical portrayals made black folks seem understandable, even though to me, her descriptions felt like we were exotic others. ![]() My Malaysian roommate, who had seen many episodes of the old nineties sitcom Family Matters, told me that she loved black women because we were sassy like Harriette and Laura Winslow, the main black female characters on that show. Years after that, I was doing a summer abroad in South Korea. ![]()
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