With both at hand it is difficult for African-American women to feel free.Ĭrenshaw’s Ted Talk fully demonstrates the issue of political intersectionality and the contrast in the recognition of African-American men and women that have suffered from police brutality. Representational intersectionality correlates with political intersectionality. For all these groups, identity-based politics has been a source or strength, community, and intellectual development.” (Kimberle Crenshaw) Honoring the coming together of all mankind, especially women. Crenshaw shared a quote within “Mapping Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color” (1993), “This process of recognizing as social and systematic what was formally perceived as isolated and individual has also characterized the identity politics of African Americans, other people of color, and gays and lesbians, among others. For things in this nature, this is where we are supposed to come together. In this case, that would be seperating black people and women. In other words, having to choose between two of your identities. This fully explains the hardships of political intersectionality. But once women show their strength society freaks out rather than praising the women that are gifted with the strength of their voice or their actions to help prosper all mankind. As for being a woman, there is always a stigma for women being frail, quiet, weak, and things in that nature. At this point, as people are still arguing about which shade is better the world only sees us as black. This depending on how light you are versus how dark you are. Black women have to build internal strength for the general harassment type of comments.

Within the race topic, an internal argument between African-American women are the various shades that we come in. Being an African-American woman there is always something one has to deal with, whether it being about race or about the fact that you are a woman. Having Trump as our president has deepened my overall awareness. This is due to the disrespectful remarks and actions that the President of the United States exposed to the world. The 2017 election not only brought out the African-American women but women of all races, shapes, and sizes.

Diarey of a mad black woman