“This Is What Rihanna’s BBHMM Video Says About Black Women, White Women and Feminism”
“Imagine if instead of kidnapping the accountant’s wife, Rihanna and her crew kidnapped his brother? Would white feminists be so upset? I doubt it. Because we understand that revenge fantasies wherein women hurt men are pushing back against the harm men do to us. But here’s what white feminists don’t get (and what has them fucked up): black women often see white women asthe same as white men. The harm done to us by white men and white women isn’t vastly different to many of us. White women have been unapologetically violent towards black women for centuries. They’ve used the power of the state, of the media, and of individual white men to harm black women time and time again. They are as harmful to us as white men are. So, for many of us, kidnapping the white brother or the white wife is all the same.”
It’s interesting, the beginning of the music video is kinda black gaze on imagined white lives.
