I guess overall in this session we've seen black women fight for their rights, we've seen black women submit, we've seen black women assert their agency over themselves. All of these in regard to sex. After talking to a resident in my building we were discussing a few things about society and he responds, "Well society teaches us that sex sells." My response was, "Yea, well at what expense?"
Most people believe that sex is the only thing to sell.. so they feed into that lie to make the fast money. If it's not sexual then they are the slave roles. I believe Oprah addressed this on her show a few years ago and sadly we are still having the same discussions.
I look forward to the day when we don't have to have these types of discussions because their will be more of a variety for the types of roles a black female can receive. I don't think the stereotype of the over sexualized black woman will go away or the slave but their are plenty types in between and they can all be displayed more. I want people to be aware of what's going on.
In Cam's research he talked about people being brainwashed or something to the effect of believing what is meant to entertain. If people were more aware and able to identify these things I feel like these things wouldn't be. More people wouldn't be so accepting of the powers that be and more would be attempting to carve out their own space. More would demand room to be made for them.
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