I was at a rehearsal for a group that consists of mostly Black women. One girl stopped rehearsal (literally, in the middle of rehearsing) and criticized another for wearing a winter hat and shorts.
A few rehearsals later, the same rude girl tells to the same girl (who was previously wearing the shorts) that she sang well at the Soul Train Awards because her hair looked like Fantasia’s.
There is a time and a place for everything, but there’s never a time or place to put each other down.
Because we have a common ancestrage and common struggles, past and present, we should be building one another up, not breaking one another down.
We’re so quick to spout out how Black women are being kept down and how opportunities are harder for us to come by, but it’s partly our fault. We break one another down until we think we can’t do things.
Those of us who know what we are capable of, sometimes choose to keep others down instead of building them up.
There are so many hurdles ahead of us, why don’t we help one another jump over them instead of making sure we trip and fall?
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