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Re Jessica Krug: I wrote my undergrad thesis about The Help and the way that not only the author Kathern Stockett, but her character, Eugenia, a white woman, takes control over the stories of Black women so as to own them, contain them and profit from them.
In The Help the Black women literally give over--what I argue is--their identities, their pain and lived experiences for Eugenia to repackage for white sensibilities. Kathern--I mean Eugenia--gets rich, looks like the hero and moves on with her life. Black women gain nothing.
White people get to feel good about themselves. See themselves as the hero.
Black people, again, are talked about, but not to.
Black people, again, are talked about, but not to.
Jessica Krug is Eugenia. She takes on the identity of Black women and controls the narrative of what Black womanhood looks like. A light shine white woman. She "owns' the story, the appearance of what it's like to be a Black woman & she sells it to white ppl. She profits from it.
Jessica Krug is the representation of what white women have historically done to Black women in this country.
She's whiteness. She's toxic. She's harmful.
She's whiteness. She's toxic. She's harmful.
Of course Jessica Krug says she's mentally ill. Which is perfect timing. Because now she gets to invoke the protection of whiteness. https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1301553630202466305?s=19
Que all the people running in to defend her. Because she's a white woman--oh, I mean, because she's mentally ill.
What will be learned from this?
Nothing.
Nothing.
The lesson is never for white America. The lesson is always for Black ppl.
We are expendable. Easily replaced & mocked. Our struggles, our lives, nor our identities belong to us.
Our story begins & end with whiteness' construction of us. And if we resist & fight against it?
We are expendable. Easily replaced & mocked. Our struggles, our lives, nor our identities belong to us.
Our story begins & end with whiteness' construction of us. And if we resist & fight against it?
Then we, Black people, aren't telling our own story correctly. So whiteness needs to do it for us. The right way.
