Carolyn Edgar

This is a quote from her essay Naked Screaming Oprah Dress Treats Black Women’s Bodies As Placeholders on Salon. Worth a read in entirety. I am fucking disgusted by yet another loathsome White woman using Black women’s bodies to garner attention and controversy and as way to distract from her own utter mediocrity and irrelevance. The lack of compassion that White women have for Black women is palpable. The hatred is visible. Well…it always has been.

All of these “Mistress Epps.” All of these…

Beyond the obvious history of Black women’s bodies and lives being exploited for White women’s amusement, profit and Schadenfreude is the current issue of the way that White women cannot think up a thing unless it harms Black women. They cannot feel empowered unless we are harmed.

Also, let’s review a few things. Oprah was sexually abused as a child. Oprah has had body issues that has caused her a great deal of pain in her life and pain that contrary to popular belief cannot be erased just because she is wealthy. So her specifically being chosen for this dress is beyond White supremacy, racism, misogynoir and hatred. It is abuse specifically for Oprah.

I am fucking disgusted by this artist, anyone like her and White supremacy itself. Instead of these White women perpetuating misogynoir and then asking “why are you offended,” why not ask “why do I have daily stunts and attacks against Black women just to make my utter uselessness as a human being relevant?”

And no “unique” White woman; as I mentioned on the ignorant ass Lily Allen video, I don’t give a fuck if you are “different.” You STILL benefit from White supremacy and the repercussions for being held accountable for it and being considered “all like that” is NOTHING compared to what Black people face when being considered “all like that.”