“Langston,” Lynita Solomon. Used by Permission of the Artist
Yesterday, I read a Facebook post by a woman who denigrated Vice President Kamala Harris for no good reason. The woman asserted that Harris is not a role model and no one should have their daughters look up to her.
The post and responses were hateful and extremely disrespectful. I can’t figure out how people can stir up so much hatred for a person they don’t know just because they don’t agree with the person’s policies or positions on certain issues.
Beyond this illogic, some made lewd remarks and [like the original poster] claimed Harris did “anything” to reach the VP position. The whole thing was disturbing. And to make matters worse, the post was “liked” thousands of times and shared more than 17,000 times!
The comments played into the hypersexualized view of Black women that was written into the narrative of American history to cover the multitude of white men’s violations against Black women’s bodies and personhood. The narrative is hurtful and just as dangerous as the one that gets Black men and women shot for just breathing.
Like the speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem, I’m so tired.
Tired
Langston Hughes
I am so tired of waiting.
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two —
and see what worms are eating
at the rind.
About the Image: The art above is the work of graphic illustrator, Lynita “Elle” Solomon. She posted the image on Instagram in honor of the day Langston Hughes was born, 119 years ago. Lynita has an amazing way of presenting her subjects “without faces,” but we know exactly who they are anyway. You can see more of her work by clicking the image above.
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Has the whole country gone crazy?!
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Maybe.
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Exactly: and many (esp. white American) men seem to think that they still have the right to our bodies when they like.
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Don’t get me started…
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Yup…
Peace
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hmmmm…defriend maybe? The world traumatizes us enough without us going into knowing traumatic situations.
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She is NOT my friend. But a friend who was perturbed by the post shared it. I went into reading it thinking it was about something eIse. I wish people would stop sharing that sort of venom.
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Aha! I never understood why people repost foolishness they think is horrible. Like, if you thought it was terrible, why you want me to see it lol
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Exactly.
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I am deeply saddened to hear about this post and the reactions. It is naive to believe that stuff like this isn’t going to happen, but it is still tragic when it does.
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Yeah.
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Ugghhh!!
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Exactly!
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They can’t find any good reason to denigrate her, so they use no good reason. I remember when I watched Kamala Harris debate Pence, I was cheering out loud, YES!
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Or they just make something up. So silly. I think most of us applauded when she put him in his place.
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