I was reading this article and found it interesting. Basically, she is bemoaning the way black women have been portrayed in hip hop videos and hoping that with white women increasingly being portrayed in the same manner, white feminists might be more empathetic with respect to what black women have had to endure.
Key quote:
"It looks like the leaders of (c)rap music have finally transitioned from light-skinned black women who look like white women to actual white women. I’m glad of that for two reasons. The first of which is that, for nearly three decades, black women have been front-and-center as the video-hoe archetype. The ramifications of these depictions have been devastating to the reputations of black women globally. A black chick could go to Outer Siberia and some idiot might ask her to twerk. But perhaps with more white women jumping on the bandwagon and fulfilling the fantasies of the black men, that exclusive burden black women carry might be mitigated."
Does she have a point?
Key quote:
"It looks like the leaders of (c)rap music have finally transitioned from light-skinned black women who look like white women to actual white women. I’m glad of that for two reasons. The first of which is that, for nearly three decades, black women have been front-and-center as the video-hoe archetype. The ramifications of these depictions have been devastating to the reputations of black women globally. A black chick could go to Outer Siberia and some idiot might ask her to twerk. But perhaps with more white women jumping on the bandwagon and fulfilling the fantasies of the black men, that exclusive burden black women carry might be mitigated."
Does she have a point?