Child, the Sassy Black Woman (I Blame Pop Culture)

Disclaimer: No particle of air was grabbed or neck muscle worked in the writing of this blog.

Now, I told the Sassy Black Woman I was coming for her neck. I think this myth, the Fat Motherly/Jolly Black Woman and the All Fashion/Beauty Knowing Gay Man actually make me an Angry Black Woman. I should LoL at that but yeah, I won't. I hate those myths!!! Fat Motherly/Jolly Black Woman myth might as well get ready for me to pop their balloon one day.

I am an educated black woman. I read a news magazines & professional journals monthly. I engage myself in the news daily. On paper I look like this.

Thanks to pop culture though even with all that I do, in the eyes of mainstream America I still look like this.
That is one of the images put in front of everyone, Ms. Sassy & Strong. Somebody may have read my description of myself and envisioned me with pursed lips, moving my neck around in a circle and waving my finger or hand grabbing air.

Though I have can, and do act like that at times that is not how I talk all the time. Very few black women do. I was buddies with a few black women that I never saw work their neck at anytime I was in college.

Don't let reality show conversation and black pop icons like Sandra Clark fool you into think there are no such people like nerdy black women, awkward black girls like Issa Rae,

or happy & demure black women, (which amazing enough I Googled that and got shoe pictures. See what I am saying.) And don't let shows like this "Girlfriends Intervention" (didn't get Not one Nielsen rating point out of me) make you think this is the way one acts so she can be a strong, confident, & Alpha-like woman no matter what race she is.

The Sassy Black woman is a caricature like the Angry & Strong Black women.

Caricature means a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect. The synonyms are cartoon, parody, satire, lampoon, a mimic. I don't like people thinking that all I am is a satire to be made fun of. Thinking that I act like the lyrics of a Jay-Z song

I got this black chick that don't know how to act 

She's always talking out her neck, making her fingers snap 

She says, "Listen, Jiggaman, I don't care if you rap 

You better R-E-S-P-E-C-T me"

— Jay-Z, "Girls, Girls, Girls"

all the time is Not cool. We all should to wave their finger in the face of Pop Culture and it's definition of the Sassy Black woman. That can be done by showing more images of black women acting as non-caricatures but as human as everyone else.

Always, Talking to You in Adult Terms