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Why Mo’Nique is The “Angry Black Woman” Who Deserves To Be Angry
Until she gets her due
Mo’Nique is angry. And it’s not that pitiful charade that Tyler Perry loves to slot in the factory of hits that have earned him millions. It’s not the kind that is allotted to women like me, who express ourselves so thoroughly that it leaves our listeners impressively startled enough to label us angrily black.
Mo’Nique is pissed as fuck because she knows she wouldn’t have anything to be worked up about — if only she looked the part.
Much like SNL cast member — Leslie Jones — who is another successful comedian and star in her own right, with a template that is far removed from the prototypes — that usually garner the unwavering approval and loyalty of the Black community, Mo’Nique has always maintained her specialized brand of delivery that doesn’t hide under the weight of respectability or finessed edits.
When Jones was publicly battling the ire of White supremacists who were taking the lead from Milo Yiannopoulos a former senior editor at Breibart — and solidified asshole — the insults were unfathomably vile in nature and forced Jones to take an extended hiatus from Twitter.
The most painful aspect of the treatment Jones received wasn’t embedded in the abuse she received from a pathetic group of exploiters with woefully generic purposes — it was the deafening silence from her own community.
There seemed to be this aversion to defend Jones due to her growing reputation as the funny Black woman with no limits and a tendency to give her “sistas” a bad name. She was basically cancelled when she appeared in that infamous AllState commercial — where she was depicted as the not-so cute Black woman shamelessly trying to get an obviously “frightened” White man to notice her. There’s no question that if the script had called for a “Rihanna-type” — the response would’ve been more favorable.
Even her hosting gig at the 2017 BET Awards was deemed less than stellar — as the tweets poured in with casual disdain towards a woman who is funny as fuck and deserves the support that is so readily given to the ones we’ve been programmed to recognize with robotic adherence.
