Powerful Black Women are STILL Disrespected in 2024
Representative Jasmine Crockett is just the latest example.
Issue #609 The Choice, Monday, May 20, 2024
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In the aftermath of the confrontation between Representative Attorney Jasmine Crockett, JD (D-TX) and Representative Serial-Adulterer Marjorie Taylor Greene, GED (R-GA) during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee late Thursday night, many white people, Republicans, and right-wing “news” outlets accused Ms. Crockett of being “ghetto” and saying that she was the one who started the altercation.
Of course, first of all, the hearing couldn’t even begin until 8 pm because many of the Republican committee members were in NY earlier in the day to support the twice-impeached, legally adjudicated rapist, legally adjudicated business fraudster, indicted in four jurisdictions with 88 civil and criminal counts two-time popular vote loser Donald Trump.
Next, Marjorie started the whole thing with her attack on the personal appearance (“false eyelashes”) and intelligence of Jasmine.
Even AOC (Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY), who has previously stated that she, as a Puerto Rican, has “African blood,” let her “Black Girl” comments come out against Marge: “Girl, Baby Girl, GURL!!” (IYKYK) Naturally, the “Baby Girl” comment went right over Marge’s Bleach Blonde head and entitled white woman mind.
However, most Black people, and especially Black women, saw this for what it was, the latest attack on powerful and educated Black women in the workplace by mediocre white people. This has happened to Black women since the 19th century, and especially since Black women finally broke the Black glass ceiling in the 1970s and beyond.
Watch the entire incident below:
What many people do not realize is that Rep. Crockett, classy and brilliant woman that she is, did NOT respond directly to Moscow Marge. Instead she asked the Committee Chair a clarifying question that included that now-famous phrase. It was such a smart move made on the fly. That’s what happens when you are a savvy and experienced civil rights lawyer and former member of the Texas legislature.
The entire incident of “Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body” clap back (known as 6B) has gone viral with scores of new internet memes cropping up.
Even Dictionary.com got into the fun with Friday’s word of the day: Alliteration
Alliteration is the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group.
For example: bleach blonde bad built butch body.
Of course, as we all know, Black women in this country have been disrespected in this country ever since the first African women were brought here through the Middle Passage slave trade, being constantly raped on the ships and throughout slavery. Female slaves often had their children snatched from their arms and sold off to another owner far away. Black women were also refused admission to many PWIs (Primarily White Institutions) because of restrictive quotas, and refused employment in many areas until Affirmative Action, which was not “reverse racism” but an attempt to re-balance equal opportunity because of the centuries of discrimination. Even now, Black women in high corporate or government positions are told they got those positions, not because they were the most qualified, but because of Affirmative Action or DEI (Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion) policies.
In 1962, during a speech, el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X) spoke about this issue. He said:
“The most disrespected person in America, is the black woman. The most un-protected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America, is the black woman.”
Most recently:
Michelle Obama, the 1st Black First Lady with degrees from Princeton and Harvard, was called a “coon” and told she looked like a man. People dissed her official First Lady portrait as unprofessional because she wore a sleeveless dress. These same people lauded the Botoxed Melania Trump as “the most beautiful First Lady ever” and declared that her nude photographs were just God’s way of showing the “perfect female form.”
Serena Williams, the holder of the most tennis awards in history, was also told she was secretly a man because of her strength and physique. She also almost died immediately after the birth of her first child because the doctors ignored her when she said there was “something wrong.”
Pulitzer Prize-winning Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones was refused a position at North Carolina State University because people did not believe her contention that the history of Black people in America began in 1619 (The 1619 Project”), not in 1776 like “real” Americans.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was told she was an “affirmative action appointment” even though she was more educated, experienced, and qualified than more than 1/2 of the then-current justices. After the Senate voted to approve her appointment, all of the (white) Republican Senators except Mitt Romney turned their backs on her and walked out of the Chamber before the end of the session.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who was previously the elected D.A. for San Francisco, the elected Attorney General for the State of California, and the elected Senator from California, is constantly called a “hoe” and her name is deliberately mispronounced.
These are just a few of the current examples about how Black women in this country are disrespected and their experiences and qualifications are ignored in favor of much less qualified white people.
It never ever ends.
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This article is so important. I look forward to more writings by and about black women who are integral to our country’s future.
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