Black women and women of color face a stereotype where any emotion gets read as anger, forcing them to suppress feelings. You're allowed to feel and express both anger and sadness without that making you less worthy.
So I heard you had a question for me.
Yes, I wanna know how I can talk to people without being seen as angry.
Oh, I hear that. Without being seen as angry. You know, well, first of all, we have to acknowledge that first of all, in the Black community, there is sort of this unfortunate ideal and stereotype that had been put on Black women and many women of color that if you show emotion, it means that you're angry, that you're aggravated, something is wrong. And so I, first of all, we have to understand that and be able to digest that and be able to first not feel the pressure of that. Because for your life, you're gonna try to hold yourself back. You're not gonna say things, which then makes it bubbles up because we all understand this stereotype. You're allowed to have your feelings. You're allowed to speak and say what you are feeling in the moment. You are allowed to be both angry and you are allowed to be both sad. And none of those make you less of a person because you have feelings.
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