Black Women On Twitter Post Childhood Pics To Stand With Blue Ivy
Black Women On Twitter Post Childhood Pics To Stand In Solidarity With Blue Ivy - Page 22
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CT: I mean, she looks like her family. DNA shows up all kinds of ways, and her phenotype is a very wide nose, big lips, and kinky hair… she’s Black, I don’t understand the confusion or this sense of betrayal that she looks how she does. Beyonce is Black too, you know?
HB: Exactly. What did you think of K. Austin Collin’s apology? https://twitter.com/melvillmatic/status/1212534810750652417?s=20 CT: It was weak. He knew what he was saying about a child and that’s all he gives? I’m not impressed at all. HB: As soon as you called for us to post childhood pics, it caught on quick! Did you expect that swift and viral response?CT: No, not at all. Here’s the thing, I’ve been on twitter for 11 years. I don’t even consider myself Twitter popular, so I don’t do these things for them to blow up or to go viral. This was about pushing back against some things I saw and to be clear about me wanting folks to just leave Black girls alone.
At first, I didn’t respond when I saw [Collins’ comments] because I was way too angry. As a mother of girls, a grandmother, an educator, to see these adults come for little kids, it just picked my skin raw. That, and a younger family member was recently sexually assaulted at school. So to see what she has been going through and then this, it was too much.
HB: Was #BlackGirlMagic born from a similar type of attack?CT: Yes. As Black women, we have been inundated with all the negative crap and disparaging remarks about our appearance, which really is just how we show up in the world. Back in 2012, I think someone said Serena Williams looked like a man and it threw me back to my childhood. I remember thinking that “Black girls are magic” but I didn’t say anything at first because I didn’t want people to think I was weird. [Laughs] But I ended up telling some friends and how I would put that on a shirt and they were like, “I’d buy it.” Here we are seven years later, still part of this cultural conversation.
HB: It’s sad that we even have to keep having this conversation. CT: It is, but this has been going on forever. Took often we are looked at being too aggressive, too angry, you name it. When my girls were younger and were at a predominantly white school, I had to remind them 24-7, “Your nose is perfect. Your hair is perfect,” just so they wouldn’t drown in all that and be completely consumed. But that’s the work. We have to protect our girls and as a former Black girl myself, we gotta show Blue we love her and all the other little Black girls that we love them too because as I’ve said before, all we got is each other and Jesus. Speaking of #BlackGirlMagic, scroll down to see all the beautiful Black women that took part of Thompson’s challenge:Black Women On Twitter Post Childhood Pics To Stand In Solidarity With Blue Ivy - Page 22 was originally published on hellobeautiful.com
