The “angry black woman” stereotype is so played, and I don’t want this article to be an ode to this misrepresentation of myself as a black woman, but rather a declaration of my being a woman. I remember as a child watching music videos and to see a woman in a sports bra and biker shorts, paired with black combat boots was considered a revealing outfit…movies with partial nudity were considered Rated-R…but my how times have changed. It seems nowadays the sensuality of a woman is no longer contained within the mystery, but rather with the barring of all.

To make matters worse there seems to be a large disparity between the less than conservative antics of black women as opposed to white women. Maybe this is just the portrayal defined by our media, or maybe it has deeper ties to the age old perception of the black woman as a wild, promiscuous being. We are bombarded with nudity and lewd acts of women…some are considered sexy and erotic, others tasteless and whore like. How can this be? ...Well apparently it is contingent upon the color of your skin.

From “Girls Gone Wild” to the various reality television shows we see white women engaging in same sex intimacy, nudity, promiscuity, and other less than commendable behaviors, and this behavior is rewarded with high viewer ratings. Conversely, the response to a black woman in a music video that is sporting a revealing outfit is frowned upon, and the black woman is continuously portrayed as this “whorish baby making machine” in today’s society. That strikes me as odd as we are not the ones plastered all over the media engaging in un-lady like behavior.

Black women have constantly had to deal with feeling inferior to white women…not because we actually were, but because their elevation has constantly been shoved down our throats, and in today’s media, when a white woman is glorified for being a whore…that is an ultimate low blow for black women. Especially since this is the very thing we were labeled and condemned as throughout history. Because we were the proverbial whores, we have seen nothing but judgment and ridicule for it, but when a white woman plays the actual whore, she deserves praise and interest… why? Because it is some sick extension of the Woman’s Suffrage Movement with her, but for us it is in our nature? Is it that she is declaring her independence when she does it, but if we even exhibit a fraction of that behavior we are doing nothing more but acting as our wild ancestors that were animalistic and non-discriminatory in nature…

I guess when assessing the overall picture, white women have been hailed as the “forbidden fruit” in society and to see the pure, untainted, wholesome fruit act in such a way is beyond intriguing…it is something that many have fantasized about…and now their wildest dreams have come true. Almost any channel they turn to, they can see this fantasy materialize in some shape, form or fashion. Black women…there is not much fascination in seeing a whore behave as one. There is no mystery in guessing how the black woman will act…her actions have been “noted” throughout history…her ancestors came from a country where many children were created and breast were bored as shirts…how dare they be comfortable with their bodies…how dare nudity not be an indication of sin…Animalistic, bestial, savage…or maybe it is simply that we are comfortable with our femininity and in an effort to reach our level of comfort white woman have went astray; they have confused the confidence and sensuality of the black woman and mutated it into their own lewd and slutty behavior.