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ethiopienne:

Genuine Genuine: Perhaps my plight seems made up.

genuineeeegenuinee:

Perhaps I seem to  be over exaggerating. Perhaps the plight of Black women in general seems to be made up because I just had a Black man ask me “have you ever really been oppressed because of your race and gender?” & it’s not just the question. It’s the way it was asked, too. As though my desires for equality are simply me protesting too much.

The worst thing is that I didn’t even know how to respond. I mean, I knew what I wanted to say, but dear god, this is not what I need…

The fact that I have to fight for my voice to be heard in a room where everyone else doesn’t have to—where everyone who is a guy and/or white does not have to—I am being oppressed. No, this is not as forthright as someone calling me a niggerbitch, but this is the equivalent. No, this is worse. Because then I have to deal with people telling me that these things aren’t happening because of racism and sexism. Because then I have to prove to people why I’m offended, why I am hurt.

Every time I turn on the t.v. or magazine and see images of women who are deemed beautiful smart womanly—and none of them look like me—I am being oppressed.

Every time I have to go on any social network site and see women being disrespected, Black women being disrespected, simply because we are Black, simply because we are women, I am being oppressed. 

When I go to buy a house some day, if I ever can buy a house, my white and  men counterparts will have a better chance at the same place, even if our socioeconomic standings mirror each other.

So, yes. Yes, I’ve been directly oppressed, because all of these things and the countless others that I haven’t mentioned, are oppressive to my state of being. And sorry that I don’t like this. And sorry I speak up about it so often. Sorry that it makes you uncomfortable. I’ll just try to remember to not feel so much, to not think so fucking much and let it be okay—let it be fucking okay when someone tells me that I am not worthy enough and not human enough, okay? O fucking kay?!

(Source: genuineeee)