Why do some African American women seem so tough?
I’m not tough at all, and I’m actually kinda small, but I was raised with this kind of idea that I was a “strong black woman” and people left it at that and I always felt like I had to look out for myself because everyone only seemed to care about the problems that my brothers and other black men go through. I’ve heard things like this too from other black women too. Also black women, in a lot of ways are the ones who carry and hold the black community together, lots of them take on the role of mom and dad, no one can deny that… I may be biased, but I think us black women go through a lot and no one gets it.
I think you will have to travel a bit more to actually get a well rounded view of Black American women. Many of us are tough and many of us are soft and feminine. However to answer your question please do some research into the Black American history. You will find that when Black people endured slavery, the Black man was displaced as the provider and protector of his family. So Black women had to step up and support the family. Only to have her children taken from her and sold off. After slavery the Black family started to build stronger relationships inspite of the fact that there were many lynchings of the men. In the 50’s and 60’s the Black family was much stronger with a 2 parent household where the women could enjoy being a mom and wife. The CIA flooded the Black neighborhoods with drugs and many families became subject to yet again a moral destruction. Now many Black families are broken and the women have to either raise themselves and/or their childern by themselves. Not to men
Well I being a black women is a challenge in all in one… … black women are at the bottom of the totem pole…women are already looked at as inferior to men but to be a women and black can be hard sometimes… the image of a black women in the media being represented as a strong intelligent women is almost non existent… I’m a young black women and though i feel that being young and black is a challenge i choose not to get an attitude but for some women it’s not that easy…we all grow up in different environments and have different experience…. some women feel they have to work twice as harder than another women or other men…
