By: Naba’a Muhammad, StraightWords.com
When you hear progress and opportunity for “women” coming out of people’s mouths be clear they are talking about White women.
There is no great trans-racial sorority where White females by and large stand with Black queens.
Consider the killing of Ajike “A.J.” Owens, a 35-year-old Black mom in Ocala, Fla., by Susan Lorincz, a 60-year-old White neighbor, and modern slave mistress Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) saying she will call the Democratic Party presidential candidate anything she well feels.
Lorincz was convicted of manslaughter Aug. 16 for shooting through her front door and killing the mother of four. There were problems with how the older woman treated children, Black children, playing outside.
The final encounter came June 2, 2023, as A.J. went to her fellow female.
“Prosecutors said Owens had come to Lorincz’s home after her children complained that she had allegedly thrown roller skates and an umbrella at them amid a long-running annoyance at their boisterous play outside,” reported the Associated Press.
A jury didn’t buy a Lorincz tale of fearing for her life because A.J. shouted and knocked hard on her door. The convicted killer faces up to 30 years in jail.
Mace showed her colors Aug. 16 by disrespecting and mispronouncing Vice President Harris’s name during a CNN segment. Her response when corrected? “I will say Kamala’s name any way that I want to.”
Her othering of Kamala Harris mirrors her party’s MAGA Man leader. The point is to deride, degrade, disavow anything that recognizes Harris in any way, including her name.
When Dr. Eric Michael Dyson, professor and Black intellectual, responded: “But when you disrespect Kamala Harris by saying you will call her whatever you want, I know you don’t intend it to be that way, that’s the history and legacy of White disregard for the humanity of Black people.”
Mistress Mace dismissed Dr. Dyson as calling her a racist. She was a White woman siding with her White man, Donald Trump.
None of this is new: The 19thnews.org noted a 2016 exit poll “showed that 43 percent of White women supported Clinton and 52 percent supported Trump; 94 percent of Black women supported Clinton and 4 percent supported Trump.”
“Preliminary results from exit polls conducted by Edison Research suggest roughly 9 in 10 Black women said they voted for Biden … Meanwhile, more than half of White women voted for Trump, preliminary exit polls suggest,” the Washington Post reported shortly after 2020 elections.
In sports came an avalanche of outrage and some stalking of the Chicago Sky franchise of the National Women’s Basketball Association after Caitlin Clark, White women’s college basketball sensation, was knocked around a bit in her big league ascension.
She was cast as the victim.
Angel Reese, a stylish and outstanding fellow WNBA rookie, and the other Black players were cast as basketball gangbangers. The explicit message was Clark, like all White women, must be protected. Them Black girls? They need to be punished and controlled.
Again, not new. The narratives of our slave ancestors reveal the viciousness, violence and varied tortures carried out by White mistresses.
It was also depicted in the 2013 movie, “12 Years A Slave.”
“The institution of slavery necessitated a culture of violence, and White women and girls were a part of this culture,” said Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, a history professor at the University of California-Berkeley. The Black scholar wrote “They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South,” which was published in 2019.
“Women perpetrated acts of extreme violence against enslaved people for the same reasons that white men did,” she said in an interview with the university.
“One woman kept the enslaved people she owned in a state of near-starvation and would tempt a young enslaved girl who cleaned her bedroom by leaving a piece of candy on her dresser each day.
“One day, the enslaved girl yielded to temptation and ate the candy. When the slave-owning woman discovered the candy missing, she accused the young girl of stealing it and proceeded to punish her by placing her head on the floor underneath the curved portion of her rocking chair.
“This woman then summoned her young daughter to help her punish the enslaved girl. While she rocked back and forth on the young enslaved girl’s head, her daughter whipped her.
“When they finished punishing the enslaved girl, she was irreparably disfigured. She was never able to eat solid food again because her jaw would constantly slide to one side of her face.”
The professor estimates 40 percent of slave owners may have been White women.
Naba’a Muhammad, award winning Final Call editor, is host of “Straight Words With Naba’a Richard Muhammad, Bj Murphy, and James G. Muhammad,” which airs live Tuesdays, 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. Central Time, on WVON AM 1690 Black Talk Radio Chicago and is livestreamed at the iHeart Radio app and WVON.com. Get more of his writing and content at straightwords.com.
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