Black Twitter is calling a spade a spade. In an effort to unify Black women around the senseless death of Breonna Taylor, women are posting photos of themselves on social media with captions that read “We are BLACK WOMEN!!…We too have a VOICE…We don’t tear down other BLACK WOMEN!!!” and Black Twitter went AWF on two women who have become millionaires from degrading Black women on their highly rated TV shows.
Mona Scott-Young is the creator of the VH1 Love and Hip franchise and Shaunie O’Neal, former wife of basketball superstar Shaquille O’Neal, created Basketball Wives, which also airs on the same network.
Black women successfully got “Sorority Sisters” off the VH1 network after a coordinated social media campaign, spearheaded by fraternity and sorority members of the various greek organizations.
Related: Black Greek Lettered Organizations successfully organize against VH-1
If O’Neal and Scott-Young are in fact bold enough to proclaim they don’t tear down other Black women, will they be bold enough to stop the exploitation of Black women for money?
The jokes write themselves.
Now wait a damn minute pic.twitter.com/izaSk4kG68
— KB. (@KevinBobby) June 6, 2020
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The dragging was well deserved. Both shows are full of stereotypes and ignorance. I haven’t watched them
in years.
Both of these women have built their “empires” off pure ignorance & BLACK WOMEN going at each other’s neck. Stop watching, let the ratings plummet..so this trash and can finally meet its demise.
So it is the media image of black women that we should only be concerned with.! What about the media image of all black people? Black women need to be careful that they do not become concerned with only themselves. It seems they want and claim all the credit for everything positive. We used to have an agency that monitored TV shows that showed us in a negative light and would recommend that we not watch it. What happened to it? We need it now more than ever and also for it to be more visible.