He Said – She Said
By Nicole Nutting and Don Valentine
She Said: I was interested to see pushback from a Black woman in the form of a petition, calling out the cover art on Colin Kaepernick’s new book, “Abolition for the People: The Movement Against Policing and Prisons”.
The image features a fierce dark-skinned woman holding up strident picket signs. The petition’s author felt this image paints a target on Black women, virtually throwing them under the bus to sell the product. Yet another shot at Black women!
He Said: Are you calling Mr. “K” Judas? The book’s debut is set for October. My interpretation is that it exhibits the frustration of the historic racially dysfunctional police force. The big concern to me is a clear media distortion of Black women. Clearly from print, t.v. and the internet there is a pattern.
Things I just don’t understand! Nicole, why are all Black women always portrayed as angry? I have had my fair share of rodeos with Black women. I did not find them to all be
“Psycho-Mad”! Can you explain the obsessive portrayal of Black women as surly, bad-tempered wenches?
I doubt that Secretary Rice [Secretary of State for President Bush], Oprah Winfrey, or Vice President Harris would elicit that description. Nor would Madam C.J. Walker [1st Black female millionaire] Congresswoman Shirley Chisolm, Beyonce, Astronaut Mae Jemison, or Diahann Carroll [1st Black female Oscar winner]. The list is long of majestic African American queens. Nicole, why does this campaign exist to disparage their grace?
She Said: Don, there is no written playbook on this strategy but the cowardly White male media from Fox News on down could be that divisive. They even smeared the great Congresswoman Maxine Waters. If we want to see change Don we email our disgust. Do not patronize that type of shameful misuse of the communications pulpit!
