WIIT: Black women are perceived to be aggressive?
When a black woman is passionate about something, when she is striving to achieve her goals and giving all that she has got, why is it that so often she is labelled as aggressive, yet when women of other races are so they are considered assertive?
Some reviews even go as far as to say that black men or even men in general are afraid of black women, as they have an over dominating position in the family and rob the men from the right and proper role. Well that’s not all good and well but if a man is not stepping up to the play what’s a women to do, watch her family suffer? A black women’s instincts will kick in and she will be mother and father to her children if she has too. This is not aggressive, its resourcefulness, determination and love.
Black mothers are consider to have supernatural powers and eternal dominance over their children, but don’t all mother have a sixth sense for their children and an everlasting concern in respect of their well-being?
As usual the media does not help our reputation, by forever taking exaggerated examples of black female behavior in conflict, such as shouting, waving arms and swinging of the head, as a common trait of ALL black women. In addition why are we ALWAYS demonstrated as having “attitude”. This stereotype is well past over kill. It’s not possible that all the black women in all the world behave exactly the same character and are always in anger mode.
I would not deny that in comparison to other races we are more strong willed, active rather than passive, assertive and expressive. Let us now forget our history which was not only unkind to our race but enforced a need for black women to be strong. We are not aggressive, we are not always angry, we do not always shout. Like everyone else we have an array of characters and which ones are displayed depends purely on each individual’s situation.
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Zena E
Reply →At times I am struck by my passion, pleasantly surprised by it. But not before I am made anxious by how it is perceived. Woke up one day tired of hiding my shine so others can feel comfortable. We are an expressive people. We embody expression. I realised that there is a tyranny over societies emotion. In a white patriarchal world that allows murderous amounts of aggression to be ok, from a board room, or MOD headquarters underground in a cave somewher, but a tangible placation of the assertion of the female self or the voicing in defense of it everywhere else. As this sense of repression of my passionate self becomes more visceral it becomes more unbearable. Now I'lll be my Self as an African Woman and Voice this Self when I feel like it more and more these days. How others feel about it is their business. Don't get me wrong this does not include railing up and making a whole load of noise in the street. I recognise that when that kind of thing has happened its been because I've been gritting my teeth and holding it down too long. No. Now I am measured at asserting my Self, my voice does the work, my body is composed and watching other people shrink as my Self expands. It is the gift of my Power I am finally owning, and it is a gift that is unique to the Sisters of African descent. It is an ancient power as melanin dictates. It cannot be denied.
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Reply →Beautifully said Zena. There is this society an oppressive stance on women being expressive, often when we are passionate or angry our concerns or expressions are disregard as histerical rants. Women of African descent are furthermore disregarded when their beliefs and principles leads them to speak out, we are dismissed as being aggressive when the truth is the power in our voice comes from deep within and cannot be ignored. May black women continue to lift their voices.