The Challenges Of Sexism And Discrimination Against Black Women

Within history women always struggled to gain respect, equality, and want the same rights as men. Women had to go through years of sexism and struggle to get to where we are right now. The struggle was very difficult for women of color because not only were we dealing with issues of racism, but also sexism. Many movements have helped us black women during the past centuries to overcome sexism, racism, and the battles that were set against us. But although these movements helped the black woman it did not abolish the racism altogether. Black women have come a long way since the past. With today 's society I now have a voice and am being heard. I have a lot more rights and opportunities now than I would probably have. Look at our election today a woman is finally running for a position in the white house in the past that would be complete shock and would not be tolerated by the men in power. Although it’s great that women are blossoming being a black woman is difficult and that comes with a lot of disadvantages in my life and I had to learn that the hard way. Sexual discrimination for example especially against Black women In the United States, is too often seen less important than other more serious survival issues by men sadly, often by other women. It is all too often seen as normal. Abuse of Black women is also seen simply as a cultural thing or just an individual issue rather than a political one. It is part of our upbringing or necessary to keep uppity Black women in line by their Black men or simply a result of our own allegedly promiscuous behavior. A harmful trend is the increasing attack on Affirmative Action laws which yes it did enable us to have at least a running start on employment and educational opportunities. Young black women are very intelligent and we are the most are eager to improve ourselves. If you took as much time and money spent on educating our generation properly and providing us with meaningful work as you spent on imprisoning us and foster care, can you imagine the shift that could happen. Today we are fighting several battles at once. We are fighting for the right, which should have been ours at birth, we don’t want to be discriminated against because of our race but I do believe discrimination can be seen as both positive and negative positive because it allows one group to have access to opportunities or privileges denied to others and yet it can be negative because of the type of employment and salary are too often reduced because we are both women and we’re black. As a black woman and going to college to better my future and having the funds, resources and my families help I do believe that maybe that puts me at an advantage from other black women or women in general. Not many can afford to go to college and have absolute support from their family. I believe that we need to take into consideration our past to correct our future. We need to take the experiences and knowledge that our ancestors have left us and use it to better the future of our black women. Before learning about race I didn’t think a lot about how capitalism played such a big part in race and the issues we are now facing. …show more content…
It amazes me how racism is still embedded in our daily lives and we don’t even acknowledge or see it. It was amazing to learn that because some companies get government money for hiring and fulfilling their black workers within that company they hire them just for that money. That drives me to be angry and want change but how is change going to happen if the people in power are the ones in charge of our paychecks. Blacks have so much more inequality when it comes to gaining power and money, especially the black woman. You rarely see black woman ceo and that says a lot. The white men will always be in charge and have more power and will be many too few against the black people. As a black woman I have learned that