26 min
The Invisibility of Black Women in America. Uncomfortable but Necessary Conversations with Nicole Jennings
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- Society & Culture
WARNING: THE BEGINNING OF THIS PODCAST HAS LANGUAGE THAT MAY BE DEEMED INAPPROPRIATE, LISTEN TO THE FIRST 3 MINUTES WITH CAUTION UNDERSTANDING THAT IT IS A REPLAY OF ANOTHER RECORDING BUT USED FOR PURPOSES IN THIS PODCAST.
The Willie Lynch Letter and The Making of A Slave is a speech supposedly delivered by Willie Lynch to an audience on the bank of the James River in Virginia in 1712 regarding the control of slaves within the colony. The speaker, William Lynch, is said to have been a slave owner in the West Indies and was summoned to Virginia in 1712; in part due to several slave revolts in the area prior to his visit, and more so because of his reputation of being an authoritarian and strict slave master. The contents heard at the beginning of this podcast is a section of that said letter and very fitting as it sets the tone for the remainder of the podcast.
The horrific collision of sexism and racism lands us at the most unprotected, overused, and underestimated human being on the planet; the Black Women. We (Black Women) have won the award many times repeatedly for being seen as "less-than" but in the same breathe, seen as a threat. Often seen as useless, unless we're giving of ourselves for the benefit of someone else; time, resources, allocations, finances, our minds, and even still, as seen in the senseless murder of Breonna Taylor, our bodies.
To be a Black Woman in America, and to stand in solidarity with causes that further the mission of advancement for Black people but not call out the fact that Black Women as the underrepresented and least protected subset of the collective whole, would most certainly make me blind, deaf, and dumb. Being that I am none of these things, I thought I would give my account on the harsh and brutal realities of Black Women from my vantage point as a Black Woman.
I don't think it is hard to want equality and equity in both the "stratospheres" of my being (Woman and Black). It's the world around me that makes me feel like I have to separate them, not understanding that doing so makes me close to love a part of myself more than the other, and I was raised to love my WHOLE self from the inside out and to believe that I deserve to do so. The bodies of women that look like me birthed the enslaved nation that toiled the lands in which our economy thrives, no matter how JACKED it may be at this point in time. I want justice for George Floyd, just like I wish Justice for Breonna Taylor, equally.
I live life from the stance that there is right & wrong, fair & unfair, equal & inequality, and my list goes on. It is absolutely OBTUSE that an officer can be charged with wanton endangerment of the lives of those who live in an adjacent apartment next to Breonna Taylor. Still, her unarmed body bleeding out on her floor for 20 minutes without assistance from first responders from the six gunshot wounds is not cause for any charges.
With that, I have to refer back to the basics as mentioned earlier and conclude on words like WRONG, UNJUST, UNFAIR, UNEQUAL & downright INHUMANE. Knowing that there was only one shot that fatally killed Breonna, and the fact the bullet could be traced, and he still holds his job, nothing has changed since the other 48 women who have been murdered by police over the last five years.
To know that Black Women's bodies were once good enough to fill endless amounts of plantations for centuries but not be protected by those whose sworn duty it was to protect and serve is heart-wrenching. This is the podcast that sheds light on that topic but from my perspective.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nicole-jennings/message
WARNING: THE BEGINNING OF THIS PODCAST HAS LANGUAGE THAT MAY BE DEEMED INAPPROPRIATE, LISTEN TO THE FIRST 3 MINUTES WITH CAUTION UNDERSTANDING THAT IT IS A REPLAY OF ANOTHER RECORDING BUT USED FOR PURPOSES IN THIS PODCAST.
The Willie Lynch Letter and The Making of A Slave is a speech supposedly delivered by Willie Lynch to an audience on the bank of the James River in Virginia in 1712 regarding the control of slaves within the colony. The speaker, William Lynch, is said to have been a slave owner in the West Indies and was summoned to Virginia in 1712; in part due to several slave revolts in the area prior to his visit, and more so because of his reputation of being an authoritarian and strict slave master. The contents heard at the beginning of this podcast is a section of that said letter and very fitting as it sets the tone for the remainder of the podcast.
The horrific collision of sexism and racism lands us at the most unprotected, overused, and underestimated human being on the planet; the Black Women. We (Black Women) have won the award many times repeatedly for being seen as "less-than" but in the same breathe, seen as a threat. Often seen as useless, unless we're giving of ourselves for the benefit of someone else; time, resources, allocations, finances, our minds, and even still, as seen in the senseless murder of Breonna Taylor, our bodies.
To be a Black Woman in America, and to stand in solidarity with causes that further the mission of advancement for Black people but not call out the fact that Black Women as the underrepresented and least protected subset of the collective whole, would most certainly make me blind, deaf, and dumb. Being that I am none of these things, I thought I would give my account on the harsh and brutal realities of Black Women from my vantage point as a Black Woman.
I don't think it is hard to want equality and equity in both the "stratospheres" of my being (Woman and Black). It's the world around me that makes me feel like I have to separate them, not understanding that doing so makes me close to love a part of myself more than the other, and I was raised to love my WHOLE self from the inside out and to believe that I deserve to do so. The bodies of women that look like me birthed the enslaved nation that toiled the lands in which our economy thrives, no matter how JACKED it may be at this point in time. I want justice for George Floyd, just like I wish Justice for Breonna Taylor, equally.
I live life from the stance that there is right & wrong, fair & unfair, equal & inequality, and my list goes on. It is absolutely OBTUSE that an officer can be charged with wanton endangerment of the lives of those who live in an adjacent apartment next to Breonna Taylor. Still, her unarmed body bleeding out on her floor for 20 minutes without assistance from first responders from the six gunshot wounds is not cause for any charges.
With that, I have to refer back to the basics as mentioned earlier and conclude on words like WRONG, UNJUST, UNFAIR, UNEQUAL & downright INHUMANE. Knowing that there was only one shot that fatally killed Breonna, and the fact the bullet could be traced, and he still holds his job, nothing has changed since the other 48 women who have been murdered by police over the last five years.
To know that Black Women's bodies were once good enough to fill endless amounts of plantations for centuries but not be protected by those whose sworn duty it was to protect and serve is heart-wrenching. This is the podcast that sheds light on that topic but from my perspective.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nicole-jennings/message
26 min