Anti-Black Woman Summer

We are barely into summer and it is already too hot, too humid, there are too many summer storms, and unfortunately there are far too many attacks directed toward Black women.

American beltway and sports media, international media, and Olympic media each seems to have collaborated on a group summer project designed to take down Black women.

Your assignment is to find known and unknown Black women from the Vice President to Beyonce, to Olympic athletes, to princesses, scholars historians, and of course all the Black women on TikTok.

Extra credit: Find a Black woman from the past to drag through the mud.

The bad news is most media, here and abroad, got the memo and got to work.

The Black women who have this far been attacked span the professional, sports, media, intellectual, and entertainment industries, proving again how comprehensive and thorough racism and misognoir is in America and the world.

Hatred of Black women is a sickness without a cure and a virus without a vaccination.

It is hard to pinpoint exactly when the memo to hate on Black women was originally distributed, but the first draft was created sometime around 1619, went through a series of white male rewrites over centuries, stopped for a moment with white women and *their the Suffrage…