The word “Rant” is another way to dismiss the black woman

-Using verbal language culturally relevant to where your from: Vile, unprofessional

-Using mannerisms reflective of where you come from: Ghetto, extremely unprofessional

-Speaking on things relevant to where you from: Can be described as a racist “Rant”

-Being Yourself: unprofessional, angry black woman. When she speaks on how she feels it is characterized as a “rant”.

So what happens is some of us learn to assimilate. Change who we are. Retreat. Change our language, our mannerisms and operate robotically to be accepted.

What do you think this does to ones mental health? Having to engage in shaping of ones own behavior just to exist. Manipulating ones self to be what someone says they should be. Then not only dealing with this from the racist white world. Then you have underdeveloped black men, using their platforms to constantly continue to drown the black woman like we aren’t being drowned enough by the world. You have black men acting like girly men with platforms based on picking out every distinct issue with the black woman (see Kevin Samuels) that they already deal with day to day trying to live in a white world.

But you have black women that are always there for the black man even when they aren’t at their best (see woman who paid to bail out R’Kelly and the numerous others who go to jail and take sentences for black men, see black women that are in droves marching everytime an unarmed black man is shot down like game by the police).

I’m sure this will be wrote off just as yet another vile “rant”.

The bigger question should be, why is it when a black woman expresses herself, the word of choice to describe what she says is characterized as a “rant”? The word “rant” is a new way to describe “The Angry Black Woman.” It’s another way to ignore the black woman. It another way to dismiss black women.