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Why Is The Black Woman The Most Disrespected Woman in America?
If you want to get me heated, all you have to do is bring up Chikesia Clemons, and the beatdown that she received at the hands of thuggish White cops. If you want to break my heart, remind me of the gut-wrenching fate of Sandra Bland.
Malcolm X is known for shaping the historical landscape of America with his tireless quest as a civil rights leader that tragically cost him his life. And during one of his many speaking engagements, he let out an alarming confession that still serves as one of the most quoted lines in his library of gems:
My first reaction to this brutal truth was the instinctual defensiveness at the audacity of being a member of a group that is deemed “unworthy” of basic human respect, by those who demonically make the decision to treat us like shit on any given day.
But the truth does hurt. It hurts a lot.
There is nowhere to hide from the devastation of watching over-shared videos of young Black women being dangerously manhandled by White brutish cops, and how those harrowing…