While these ladies are entitled to their opinion, they're not entitled to their own facts. Their most recent episode perpetuated false tropes, old stereotypes, and dangerously ignorant misinformation about African American women, their reproductive rights, and infertility. One co-host used her small sample size and limited experience in health care as flawed and narrow case studies to cast wide generalizations about African American women, and at a time when African American women are struggling to get high quality healthcare and survive despite rampant disparities in childbirth-related death. In one episode, these women managed to cast a diverse population of some of the most highly educated, and yet disrespected citizens in the U.S. as incapable of making informed decisions about their own bodies, promiscuous, and deserving of infertility due to taking birth control (including speculations about the many unfortunate miscarriages of Gabrielle Union, about which she has been transparent and vulnerable). It's so incredibly sad that these women choose to use their platform to put African American women down, to see and cast a light on only the most disadvantaged women in social and economic conditions that drive them to make hard (but legal choices), to hold a megaphone up to misinformation about dropping childbirth rates (they ARE due to delayed pregnancy and increased use of birth control, not abortion- LOOK IT UP), and so many other lies that do not represent the broad swaths of Black women taking care of their health and the health of entire families, working hard, struggling to access healthcare etc, especially in states like Georgia. I was so enjoying the fresh perspective and candid conversation of these ladies until they turned on African American women. Don't we have enough to overcome in the society without you three contributing to destruction and disrespect of Black women? There may be (many) areas where you are uninfomred, but don't you all have an obligation to both know better and do better? Perhaps these ladies need to see more of the world (and the U.S.) where African American/Black women are thriving, running for office, demanding their seats at tables in every professional sphere, and breaking down stereotypes, not perpetuating them.
