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Personal Essay On Being A Black Woman

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Being a black woman in this world is like constantly being told to love and respect yourself and having no one love or respect you. Being a black woman in this world is like always picking someone up when their down only to have that same someone kick you when you've fallen. Being a black woman in this world is like suffocating on all the hurt and the pain and always desperately searching for air and never truly finding it. But most importantly, being a black woman in this world being completely and unconditionally strong regardless of where and when you are.
I spend a large portion of my life trying to make myself smaller to accommodate the feelings of others. That includes avoiding topics such as race to not seem redundant or overbearing or to avoid making the people …show more content…

I have never understood why the topic of race and or racism is seen as “uncomfortable” towards specifically white people. I have often wondered if it is because of the genetic guilt white people possess for the centuries of unfair and unkind treatment of others or if it is just an excuse to avoid talking about something that they may secretly agree with. In my 17 years of life on this Earth, I have been continuously lost in my understanding of why the world works in this peculiar manner. Being black is already an idiosyncratic burden in this world. It isn’t something that I complain about, but when I do decide to discuss the challenges that it entails with my peers I am often combated with rolling eyes and scoffs, “Here she goes again,” as if discussing the challenges that not just I, but everyone who looks like me faces on a daily basis is some boring lecture. Being a woman is also one hell of a challenge. Women succumb to certain burdens that weigh on our everyday lives - burdens that we cannot change, but we get through it. That’s just how strong we are. Black women, in particular, would, however, appreciate the simple respect from others to understand all

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