My Ignorance About Black Feminism

 Engaging in this class has taught me a lot more about feminism than I’ll like to admit. At first, my thought process was just to get this class for an easy A but the more I read, the more I was kind of horrified? Like don’t get me wrong, I’m glad to be learning about intersectionality but it’s still horrific to know black women go through this. It’s even extra embarrassing since I’m a black guy who has a lot of black women in his life, yet I still don’t know much. There has been one major thing I’m glad this class taught me though. It was about Anger. I used to hear (or see) black women that were so bitter and angry at the world for no reason. They would say and act vile towards others and were even self-destructive to themselves. Before I used to dismiss them as crazy people but after watching Jennifer’s Ted Talk, I really started to think. What if these were women who were failed by the system? A system that categorically chips and chips and chips at you until there is nothing else you can do but scream. Another type of introspection I did was remembering if these women were crazy or just said to be crazy. It was quite interesting to note that it was only one of them. Everyone else was either hot headed or they were said to be crazy by the people in my life. It was so surreal coming to that realization and I felt like garbage. I like to think (and act) like I’m a good person but just thinking about how dismissal I were towards these women make me feel sick. In conclusion (for now), this class has made me come to the realization that I am lacking in certain aspects of my life, and I hope to remedy that sooner than later. 

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