It is that magical time of year! The magical time of year when BET actually does something right! That time of year when instead of demeaning black women we are celebrating them! Instead of a Beyonce focus trance (I don't hate her I'm jsut saying), we are celebrating women who are business owners, singers, dancers, and who give back to their communities. W.E.B DuBois said that the turning of the 20th century "The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races." Mr. DuBois is simply saying that the most educated of our race SHOULD reach back and help others. However more times than imaginable, we only shake our heads at the single mothers. 
We overlook the highschooler forced into over crowded classrooms with 'teachers' with no education background. Often times we are disgraced, treated poorly, and mocked in all forms of media. Even the media that we ourselves create. However it seems that we have started to celebrate ourselves for our positives. Black women let's support one another. Let's not tear each other down. It does nothing but create more rifts in our communities. Talented Tenth, let's help our brothers and sisters and not walk past them in their need. We should keep our communities and not wait on anyone else. Black Girls do Rock! Its time we shared this with our children. Its time we give them confidence in their pigment. Its time we showed them how awesome it is to be themselves. Its time we tell them they can be anything they want to be. They don't have to settle. If the world can be the oyster of our counterparts of other races, why can't the same be true for us? I rock. You rock. We all rock! #blackgirlsrock
I look up, He looks down!
Meanie Evie
Meanie Evie
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