Ugly For The Empire: Why Our Beauty Won’t Free Us
It’s time to stop confusing aesthetic praise of ‘beautiful’ Black women in the sociopolitical sphere for liberation.
A few weeks ago, Trump addressed reporters in the Oval Office about the possibility of deploying the National Guard to Chicago to threaten and harass civilians.
“African-American ladies [in Chicago], beautiful ladies,” he lied, “are saying, ‘Please President Trump, come to Chicago, please.’”
The author, a beautiful Black woman from the South Side of Chicago, denounces being beautiful when it is used by Trump for political gain.
Almost a year beyond the election of his second term, the veil has been lifted on Donald Trump’s obsession with the appearance of Black women for political gain.
Author summary: Beauty won't liberate Black women.