Black Girls: Be YOU Unapologetically Beautiful!

This is the last week of Black History Month 2024 and I have only one message for Black girls and young Black women:   Be YOU unapologetical...

This is the last week of Black History Month 2024 and I have only one message for Black girls and young Black women: 

Be YOU unapologetically.  

Just this month we have seen Black and biracial women who have achieved great things attract the most criticism:

Nara Smith

Fani Willis

joining Black women who are always among the most highly criticized and highest achieving human beings:

Serena Williams

Taraji P. Henson

Oprah 

Michelle Obama

Meghan Markle

Megan Thee Stallion

Kamala Harris

Viola Davis

Beyonce

Shirley Chisholm

Isabel Sanford

Anita Hill

Audre Lorde

Fannie Lou Hamer

Ella Baker

Rosa Parks

Alice Walker (for authoring "The Color Purple")

Vanessa Williams

Minnie Ripperton

Patti Labelle

Sade

Anita Baker

Toni Braxton

Donna Summer

Janet Jackson

Whitney Houston

Cicely Tyson

Eartha Kitt

Nina Simone

Phyllis Hyman

Hazel Scott

Gloria Richardson

Hattie McDaniel

Mahalia Jackson

Tina Turner

Macy Gray

Beautiful and beloved, 

you can look like, 

earn like, 

speak like,

pray like,

achieve like,

create like,

develop like,

win like,

marry like, 

& live like others want you to.....and 

if you are a Black or biracial woman, folks may still launch entire campaigns just to complain. 

Therefore, I hereby suggest: 

 

"You might as well just go on 

and be you without apology

..and love doing it!"