The League of Mammies (the LoM and its aLoMni) are at it again.
LoM members:
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Oprah Winfrey
- Gayle King
- Stacey Abrams
- Joy Reid
- Ketanji Brown-Jackson
- Kamala Harris
- And Many More
Remember the days when a lot Black women used to vicariously live through the likes of Oprah Winfrey? Now we have a bunch of Black women living vicariously through not just billionaires, but famous and/or rich people and millionaires who are in reality TV shows, rappers, singers, actresses and entertainers, and political sellout whores like Kamammy, Kecoonji, and Shady Stacey. Many Black women along with Black men both online and in real life use entertainment and Black icons, famous and rich people, and public figures as a means of escapism from the constant anti-Black systematic oppression.
The point the Professor made about these few Black celebrities and public figures being outliers while Black women are much more likely to be homeless than any other group (with Black men being a close 2nd) especially struck home to me. Many Black women close to me lost their homes, were/are in danger of losing their homes, or are/were homeless. A lot of them even had children and sick/disabled/older relatives they were trying to care for. Shelters have been overcrowded and turned away many people, including families with children.
Many of them had to rely on or move into the homes of family or friends (regardless of how well or how bad they got along), stay on the streets, stay with strangers, or stay in motels/hotels/AirBnBs. And don't get me started on how horrible a lot of the motel and hotel owners (especially the racist East Indians) treat their struggling Black homeless travelers and how they ripoff these poor travelers and even put them in uncleaned rooms while often treating them absolute shit at the lowest point of their lives.
The crazy thing is that these East Indians, Arabs, and Latinos can all be considered "Brown" when convenient even though they help to mistreat, abuse, attack, oppress, and exploit us Black people like the whites and Asians do. And the media and society continues to promote a fictional, collective Black and Brown alliance that doesn't exist anywhere, let alone in the real world. Smmfh. These whites and non-Blacks are all systematically unified against Black people, our interests, our souls and spirits, and our well-being. Black and Brown my fucking ass.