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Indie Artist Music Hustle
64.1% Have Degrees, 0% Are Your Animals: The Truth About Black Women
Welcome to this week’s Indie Artist Music Hustle with Blonde Intelligence. I am your host Ms. Roni and I always seek to give you exquisite cranial repertoire. What happens when media representation collides with the lived reality of Black women in America? In this powerful exploration, we dive deep into the damaging disconnect between how Black women are portrayed and who they truly are.
The recent controversies surrounding Tyler Perry's comments about relationship standards and the shocking use of monkey imagery on Love & Hip Hop serve as our starting points. We unpack why these incidents matter deeply and how they fit into a broader pattern of disrespect toward Black women. When Beverly Bond founded Black Girls Rock in 2006, she recognized a crucial need to counter negative stereotypes with empowering images of Black women—a mission that remains urgently relevant today.
The statistics tell a story rarely reflected on screen: 64.1% of Black women hold bachelor's degrees, 71.5% have earned master's degrees, and 63.8% possess PhDs. Beyond academia, Black women have pioneered medical technologies, contributed significantly to internet development, built successful businesses, and patented groundbreaking software. As one powerful quote reminds us, "To be Black and a woman is to wake up every day in your body to be policed about your skin, about your gender and even your own existence—and that loving yourself is a protest."
We challenge the notion that Black women should accept being called dehumanizing names or settle for partners who contribute minimally while expecting maximum appreciation. The reality shows and music videos frequently shaping public perception represent only a fraction of Black womanhood, not the accomplished, educated leaders who deserve full respect and equal partnership. Join us as we advocate for authentic representation and recognition of Black women's true brilliance and contributions. How will you help change the narrative?
Hello everyone, welcome to this week's Indie Artist Music Hustle with Blind Intelligence. I'm your host, ms Ronnie, where I always seek to give you exquisite cranial repertoire. This week I am going to talk about a couple of things that kind of well, not kind of that tie in together. One is about the image of Black women is not the reality of who Black women are, and I wanted to talk about the Love Hip Hop Town Hall that MTV had, the love and hip-hop town hall that MTV had. So I'm going to be reading some notes and you'll see me looking down a lot or, you know, looking at paper or whatever, because I did take some notes to talk about this.
Speaker 1:So I read an article by a lady named I want to say her name is Jeannie Asterhilt. She wrote this article in December of 2021. And it was talking about Black Girl Magic. So Black Girl Magic is a Black girl or a woman known for her realness, love and the way they rally around each other. When she sees a Black woman, she sees a revolution, a fundamental change in organization. To be black and a woman is to wake up every day in your body to be policed about your skin, about your gender and even your own existence and that loving yourself is a protest. And so I thought about that when I read that. And with all that has been going on in the media, with the Tyler Perry thing, the twerking on the red carpet, the monkey situation, it's just been a lot. So who can say that loving yourself is a protest? Only a black woman can say that, and it seems these days that a lot of other people are still trying to speak for the black woman. Tyler Perry, ply, and certainly not funky Donnieville can speak for black women.
Speaker 1:So I was reading this article and it pointed out some things that black women are survivors, black women are killed at a rate is almost three times as our white counterpart. Yet when we are missing a murder, there are no calls for our safety. We are more likely to die giving birth Even more than that. I commented on. I love to watch. This is the rapper. His name is Plies. I love to watch him. He's so funny. But he had something on about.
Speaker 1:If something about it, the man have enough money, then the woman shouldn't complain. I don't know where this ideology came from, but I commented and I said no, I don't kiss anybody's ass to get along with their face. And just that quick, another dude came in caping for me I guess I don't, I'm just saying what I was saying. And he said, well, you don't have to worry about that because he's rich and he wouldn't talk to anybody like you anyway. I said, oh well, I said I still won't kiss anybody's ass to get along with their face. And I put a smiley face and I said, said you have a good day because you're dismissed. You're dismissed, baby, because how are you going to say what a black woman should have? Because the man have money.
Speaker 1:So Beverly Bond owns Black Girl Rock started in 2006 to showcase empowering images of Black women of color. So I remember watching Black Girls Rock on BET. They had an award ceremony and they was like we just need to let the young girls know that Black Girl Rock. And I was like, well, yeah, and it never, I guess, occurred to me that people did not understand that how brilliant black women are, I don't know. According to the American Association of University Women, 64.1% of black women have bachelor's degrees, 71.5% have master's and 63.8% have PhDs in 2021. Which brings me to the Spice and Erica Mina love and hip hop town hall situation. As successful as black women are and all the accomplishments that they have made, people will still try and reduce successful black women to a black, blue monkey. Now, a lot of people.
Speaker 1:Because I watched the blogs and how people was reporting and I decided that I wanted to wait and see what was going to happen and everything. And what I want to say is I appreciate the fact that Yandy was like well, if you don't know, let me try to educate you on this. So I think that aspect right there cleared up the people who were saying well, she might not have known or she might have thought this or whatever. I feel like that, as a friend coming to you, telling you something like that, that you should be receptive to hearing what they're trying to say and how you have offended people. And I feel like that wasn't. It is not that I and I feel like that wasn't. It's not that I don't feel like it wasn't the case. No, I do appreciate MTV for bringing the town hall to the forefront. People needed to be educated on the history of the slur calling black people a monkey, that is just, oh, it is okay and they need to be educated about the emotions that evoke behind using that, those particular words. So these are my thoughts the apology should be as loud as the disrespect.
Speaker 1:The apology should have been as quick as a response to a post. The apology should have had grammatical errors, as the response post did, as the response post did. So that brings up another thing that people were like. Well, the publicist wrote that it's not sincere, it's not that Okay. In that long post there were a lot of misspelled words, grammatical errors, and there were none in the apology for which it could have been edited and proofread by somebody. But it's just, it don't have the same temperature. So I want to say this, despite the history of oppression and exclusion, because not only I thought about watching the Color Purple one time, about watching the Color Purple one time and the character Mister that was played by Danny Glover when what was her name?
Speaker 1:Not with Sophia. What was Whoopi Goldberg's character name? I can't remember right now. I can't remember right now, but when she was leaving, because she was like Silk, I'm going with you and she was leaving and he was like what you going to do? You black, you ugly and you a woman? And I was like what does he mean?
Speaker 2:by that Because I was a little girl. What does he mean?
Speaker 1:by that you black and you a woman and you ugly. What is he talking about? So I just want to say just to be clear do not refer to black people as monkeys. We are not animals, especially black women, and I don't think that the network had been portraying black people as animals Maybe some ignorance but not animals. So that right there in that post, I mean that was shoot yourself in the foot, the toe and the other one, because your step now is beyond the Black women and you're fighting against your own bad.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you what Black women are. Black women are the ones that designed the device that refined the laser cataract surgery. We are the ones that played an enormous role in internet technologies. We are millionaires by creating cosmetics and hair products and designing clothes and making music and graphic designs and beats and all kinds of things. But they say stop, like peanut butter. I mean so many things. We are the ones that patented the software that assisted with equal employment opportunities. So no, we are not monkeys and black women deserve more than an electric bill being paid, mr Tyler.
Speaker 1:The Bible said equally yoked, and that the woman is supposed to be the helpmate. So on top of being called a monkey, then you're supposed to accept that this man only can pay an electric bill and take you out to eat every now and then, and it's supposed to be baby. It's okay if I cover the mortgage, if I cover the car notes, if I cover the insurance, if I cover the gas bill, the water bill, the groceries, the health insurance, all of that, as long as you treat me right. Where is that? Equally yoked in being the helpmate, where is that at? Because, mr Tyler, you do all of these movies and plays and everything, and your theme is supposed to be something that's supposed to empower the black people, but yet it's supposed to be okay. The electric bill comes once a month. How often is this man supposed to be getting paid? Where are we supposed to be living at? What kind of car are we going to be driving? Is it going to stop down the street or am I going to be able to make it to work from out of town? If something goes wrong and I lose my job, it's going to be like I lost my job and he's going to be like oh baby, I lost my job today. I lost my job and he going to be like, oh baby, I lost my job today, mm-mm-mm-mm. It is far time over.
Speaker 1:Black women have proved themselves Educated, beautiful, have their own. They deserve the best, the best, not an electric bill being paid, not to be called a monkey because these men I don't know what they are wanting, but obviously the black man is giving these other women, these other men and even black men the leeway to disrespect black women. Stop it, because we are all of that. And the coleslaw flavored Lay's potato chips that Lay's hadn't got back with me yet on All of that. So I am going to leave it at that. I think that as long as that post was, the apology should have been as quick as when the post was released and as long as the response was. And then, on top of that, I caught this when the agent was talking to Miss Mina and said, oh, we got you a, basically saying well, we got you a placement here or whatever. And she's like oh, I'm an actress now, okay, but then when they showed you the footage, I feel like because I'm also very intuitive that the surprise or the disgust didn't seem.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to say that it's not, it did not seem genuine and I think that I have, you know I weighed it and I think that I have such a strong opinion on it because in one of my other lives there's still a present life, but one of my other lives I do have an undergrad in sociology and a master's in counseling. So just the study of people and the evolution of people, and to steal with all the accomplishments that have been made, that when somebody get mad that they want to refer to a person as an animal after all, the accomplishment to me is like a slap in the face. So I don't know how people is gonna gonna react, gonna feel hey. But those are my thoughts and opinion on it.
Speaker 1:I think that men I don't care what kind of men you are, men should not try to speak on women. They don't need to get in. Men, get in women's business. Now, when it comes to parenting, yes, but I'm going to leave it at that. At any time, any black man, any white man, any, anybody, feel like they have something derogatory to say about black women and they're talking about the twerkers and the people who rap about this. Remember, let me go back. This is in the US.
Speaker 1:Out of all the black women in the United States 64.1, which is more than half, and if you were getting a grade, even though it's poor, it's passing has a bachelor's degree. 71.5, which means it's average if you was looking at it. Five, which means it's average if you was looking at it, have master's degrees and 63.8% has PhD. So the Black women that you see portrayed on these reality shows, in music, in these music videos, that is not the average Black woman. These numbers show that the average Black woman is way more than you are giving her credit for and it's time for the. Respect the Queen, because we are the queens. Respect the queen. Remember, you can find us. Let me back up. Let me back up.
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