Angry for Black Women

The tried trope about the “Angry Black Woman” should forever be laid to rest after watching the latest episode on The Insurrection, Season 1, Episode 4 where the dignified and professional Ms. Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss shared how they were targeted by crowds of angry white people unleashed by Trump.

The two women told the committee and the nation how they were targeted and threaten by hateful mobs of trump followers.

The heartbreaking words Ms. Ruby and Shaye shared are the most current incidence of Black women being the target of angry white mobs.

This is just another demonstration that it is angry white people, not an imaginary angry Black women, who are the real problem in this country.

We didn’t see mobs of angry Black women storming the Capitol after being forced to wait twelve hours in line to vote, but we saw angry mobs of white people in multiple states trying to cheat to win and, when they couldn’t force a change, became angrier — if that is even possible — and took their anger to the nation’s capital city.

America has spent hundreds of years convincing itself that Black women are angry, loud, irrational, and reactionary, despite Black women birthing, nursing, and raising two American nations with little to no compensation, respect, or so much as a “Thank you.” There are no federal monuments to Black women, no holidays, no loving and earned titles such as Founding Mother.