So before I start my day I would just like to state a few things. First music for me is therapy and it is sacred. I don’t do music for popularity, or to been seen. Second music especially techno and house music have a connection to social issues and change. Third I don’t care what anyone thinks of me. As long as I am true to myself.
Now over the last day or so there has been some pushback as to how I have felt about Cardi B and the song Wet Ass Pussy. Sure women have a right to do whatever they please with their bodies, but that does not mean it does not come without consequence. The objectification of black and brown women is real. So when a performer gets on stage and describes her goods as “Wet Ass Pussy”. What does that do for our young black and brown girls? How is that enabling our young black and brown boys to value those beautiful black and brown girls?
I guess I’ll get pushback, but I will be damned if I allow a white feminist named Sarah Meyers from DC, who more than likely has lived in Georgetown or Northwest DC, and has never experienced any form of struggle as a POC to tell me how to help raise my niece and nephews. She has no clue that black men are hunted and endangered. She has no clue the objectification black women throughout history have endured. I refuse to sit silent while the black family is destroyed in this nation by attitudes and centuries old fantasies of our women.
I’ll leave this short. You may believe your intentions are genuine, but sometimes sit back and listen before you just talk loud. Cardi B’s performance does affect black women due to objectification and attitudes it is teaching young black boys. You can say its the parents job to monitor what is being viewed and that is true. However, how do parents monitor old structures of societal and institutional racism? That’s what Wet Ass Pussy perpetuates. So please white feminists, stop and listen before you go and try to cancel someone. You have no clue what the black family has been through.