Rapper Megan Thee Stallion calls to 'protect Black women' in a 'New York Times' op-ed
... People have publicly questioned and debated whether I played a role in my own violent assault.”
Megan Thee Stallion also addressed the blowback when she criticized Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron for only charging one officer in the shooting of Breonna Taylor during aShe wrote it was “ridiculous” that people would find the phrase “Protect Black women” controversial, and wrote that Black women “as human beings,” and are “entitled to our anger about a laundry list of mistreatment and neglect that we suffer.
Megan Thee Stallion also used the op-ed to tackle stereotypes and what she says is an “obsession” with Black womens’ bodies: “I choose what I wear, not because I am trying to appeal to men, but because I am showing pride in my appearance,” she writes, adding that “when women choose to capitalize on our sexuality, to reclaim our own power, like I have, we areMegan Thee Stallion, who hails from Houston, Texas, first received major mainstream attention last year when she released the...
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