In this year's Essence Music Festival singer Jill Scott and others, addressed a panel on media representation of black women in popular music and video. I was excited attention to this problem. One such platform is long overdue.
The promotion of black women as body parts with particular focus on football has a soft part of our history. In 1810, Saarjite Baartman (also known as Sarah), a woman Khosian, taken from South Africain Europe to be connected because of their steatopygia, or enlarged buttocks are shown. Known as "The Venus Hottentot," he said, was exhibited naked in a cage for more than five years. After the death Saarjite the genitals were removed and dissected as European scholars tried to understand the "primitive sexual appetite" of African women.
Black Women's thrust, seat vibration, the primary objective in many of today's video. to perpetuate these videos that further attacks against the sexual exploitationIntegrity of the bodies of black women. It is not simply the representation of black women big booty, scantily clad, rolling, sex toys without a voice. But there is little to counter the others in the media. Consider the role that the actor Halle Berry won an Oscar. This represents an animal, sex scene in which something primitive sexuality of black women.
I'm out for the impact on black girls absorb these images miracle.
Although a link has long beenwas suspected of sexual imagery in the media and the socio-emotional development of adolescents empirical evidence is beginning to establish a connection. And as you might think, black girls do not look good.
A well-known recently published in the American Journal of Public Health, that the black girls, rap videos tend to conflict with the law, take drugs and suffer from sexually transmitted diseases. "We see a certain relationship,some clubs, "says study co-author Gina Wingood, an associate professor of behavioral science and health education at Emory University in Atlanta.
If we believe that these claims are disturbing in respect to the statistics of the sexual health of black girls. A survey by the national campaign to prevent teenage pregnancy was carried out by, showed 32.7% of sexual experience black girls aged 15-19 reported having two or more male partners during the ' past year. Research done by GirlsInc., showed that testing for black girls aged 12-18 for sexually transmitted diseases, 25% were positive for at least one STD, chlamydia and gonorrhea occur most frequently. Although Black women accounted for about 15% of all U.S. girls aged between 13 and 19, they accounted for 72% of all reported cases of HIV among young women. Many rap video to promote sex without consequences. We see the results are devastating.
Growing up as a girl in 1970,Potential for women seemed enormous. Black women were part of changing history and left a huge legacy. Recently submitted its Oprah's Legend Ball in honor of the great black women in media, music and the civil rights movement. The legends of the women I grew up watching were - women like Diahann Carroll, Gladys Knight, Nancy Wilson, Cecily Tyson, Dorothy Height, Coretta Scott King and Maya Angelou, to name a few. These women are dignified, gracious, and you have respect. Were (andstill is) beautiful black women, brave and strong. As a girl, when I paid the women a sense of pride for me and looked again. Who can turn black girl to date for such inspiration?
As a society we must ask ourselves some questions. We care about the nature of women, girls grow up? Her picture is worth defending in public? Where protection of sexual integrity? There was a time in our history, lynching, while the men threatened if blackssought to protect their women from sexual assaults of others. I have the silence of black men than black women exploited publicly humiliated and sexually clueless. We need a new sexual revolution, restores the dignity of black women. A revolution is needed in the black women of "baby mothers", "Chicken Heads" and "transform" I "self-respecting women and mothers (preferably in that order.)
While appreciating the Essence Music Festivalto discuss the establishment of a platform for the representation of black women in popular media, it is important that we are taking steps to begin to take place to make a difference. How the media to provide a balanced picture of our women are imperative to this. But we must also do a lot of work to do. Any attempt to question the sexuality of black women and girls by the men of our community, we can use in a safe, healthy growing spaces for girls. And girls should be taught to the media so that theydeconstruct the images that are absorbed.
As a counselor, and educator, I worked for the girls for more than a decade. I love girls. They are beautiful, caring, flexible and durable. But over the years, I saw the girls struggling to grow up in a society unable to protect them, at every level. The rate of sexual harassment of girls in their neighborhoods and schools is very high. Black girls face extraordinary incidents of sexual abuse bya relative or a close family associate members. Many of these girls end up in the juvenile justice system, the focus is very much involved with my work. Because of their traumatic stories sex, girls in the juvenile justice system are easily attracted to the sex industry. Pimp disguised as video producers are looking for them as easy prey.
The disturbing reality is that many of these girls are mothers of more than one child. What will their children grow up to be? Can inThe kids love that? To change the trajectory of the lives of these girls, we must begin to restore their sense of worth and value. I've heard of girls on self-destructive decisions because they believed not deserve better. They saw their lives as worthless. How do I mentor these girls, I tell them that they are important and valuable. And that does not depend on other than the fact that God made them beautiful. When Iread to them from the Book of Psalms: "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made, your works are wonderful, I know very well that" they are amazed. If we begin to transform the lives of girls, as a community we are convinced that their lives are worthy of the show that we care enough to act on their behalf are to be demonstrated.
I felt full of hope and relief to organize a group of brave women at Spelman College, a boycott of Nelly, known for his anti-womanLyrics and music videos that degrade black women. Our communities need more of this type of organization and action. We have the momentum and begin to reverse the trend. A future generation of healthy women and mothers depends on it. The Venus Hottentot is a tragic part of the history of black women. Doing nothing is on this day assault on the public image of black women as equally tragic.
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