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Black History Year

The ‘Angry Black Woman’ Trope And The Truth About Black Rage

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

4.32.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

She got heated often. Yelled. Raged. Her emotions were belittled. She was called Sapphire and used to weaponize how Black women express anger. Thankfully, she stayed mad, and her rage was her greatest teacher of what it means to protest. _____________ 2-Minute Black History is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company. PushBlack exists to amplify the stories of Black history you didn't learn in school. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at BlackHistoryYear.com — most people donate $10 a month, but every dollar makes a difference. If this episode moved you, share it with your people! Thanks for supporting the work. The production team for this podcast includes Cydney Smith, Len Webb, and Lilly Workneh. Our editors are Lance John and Avery Phillips from Gifted Sounds Network. Julian Walker serves as executive producer." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

New Series, those about to die only on prime video.

0:04.0

Let the game spagge!

0:06.0

Win or lose, all must fight to survive.

0:09.0

My son, show them you can fight.

0:11.0

Enter the arena of the Gladiators starring Anthony Hopkins.

0:15.5

Nothing is more important than our beloved wrong.

0:18.4

From the Director of Independence Day.

0:21.1

The moment is upon us.

0:22.4

Kill or be killed.

0:26.1

Those about to die. Watch emotions were belittled. She was called

0:40.7

sapphire and used to weaponize how black women express anger.

0:46.4

Thankfully, she stayed mad and her rage was her greatest teacher of what it means to protest.

0:55.0

This is too in a black history,

0:57.0

what you didn't learn in school. Sapphire is the stereotype created to police black women's rage.

1:16.0

Portrayed as sassy and emasculating.

1:20.0

Sapphire was the original angry black woman.

1:23.0

This trope was popularized in the 1950s television show, Amos and Andy,

1:29.0

but anti-Blackness has been vilifying black women's rage since the 1800s.

1:35.0

Unfortunately, black women are constantly being told to calm down.

1:41.4

In her keynote speech to the National Women's Study Association in 1981, poet and feminist

1:48.0

Audrey Lord declared my response to racism is anger. She continued,

1:54.8

Black women are expected to use our anger only in the service of other people's

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