{"id":7189,"date":"2013-03-10T23:46:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T03:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7189"},"modified":"2013-03-16T05:03:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T09:03:02","slug":"a-females-scorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7189","title":{"rendered":"A Female’s Scorn"},"content":{"rendered":"

“A black woman is no different to any other woman”<\/b>
\nBy Akilah Holder – Trinidad Express – March 08, 2013
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AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER?<\/b><\/figcaption><\/figure>I was standing in my local mini-mart one day, waiting to be served and minding my own business, when this scruffy and questionable-looking black man who had walked into the mini mart began eyeing me. From the corner of my eyes I had noted that he was eyeing me, and had thought to myself, “Oh gosh, here we go!”. As I had anticipated, this “character” walked over to me and began hitting on me. I shot him a look intended to convey “Ugh! Please!” At that point, I looked away. And I must have succeeded in communicating the meaning that I had wanted because he persisted, “why you have to treat me like I is a beast?” Yep, green verbs and all! I responded “because you are acting like one,” and so aggravated was I, that I was about to spit out “and you look like one too,” but I thought to myself “Look, Akilah, hush, jus hush”.
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\nHe stopped, but not before adding “Why my people so boy, why we so?!” I did not even bother, I just ignored him. But I cannot ignore the premise that seems to underlie his final statement: that as a black woman I should be thrilled that he is interested in me (despite his vagabond, unkempt, very “street” appearance and obvious lack of or absence of education), that because I am black I should be able to relate to him, that I should not have class and carry myself like a lady, and that I owe him something by virtue of being black.
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