'Wouldn’t it be nice if Black girls weren’t inundated with negative, sexist comments about Black women?'
on October 4, where she condemned Kentucky’s attorney general, Daniel Cameron, for his “appalling conduct in denying Breonna Taylor and her family justice.” She explained that she’d seen the backlash to her performance coming. “Anyone who follows the lead of Congressman John Lewis, the late civil rights giant, and makes ‘good trouble, necessary trouble,’ runs the risk of being attacked by those comfortable with the status quo,” she wrote. “But you know what? I’m not afraid of criticism.
In her article, which also reads as a love letter to Black women, she shared that she sees their struggles. Megan highlighted the stereotype of being considered an “angry Black woman,” the stigma over Black women’s curves, and the disproportionately high mortality rates for Black people giving birth, and for Black trans and gender-nonconforming people.
She concisely and effectively summed up the truth about a society that constantly expects Black women to be the saviors of the world: The only people who will fight for Black women are Black women.
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