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Triple Consciousness and the Black Woman

Feb 10, in Black Women's Empowerment, Black Women's Improvement Project (BWIP), Gender Conflict, Guests of the Inner Sanctum, by Kathy Henry

It is a strange lot to be a black woman in American society. She was brought to this country to be an unpaid worker, a concubine and a broodmare. Her body and her sexuality has been reviled and experimented on but from the various brilliant shades of brown black people come in, is curiously loved.

She’s Moving On: Race Woman No More

Jun 22, in Black Women's Empowerment, Black Women's Improvement Project (BWIP), Family, Gender Conflict, Guests of the Inner Sanctum, No Wedding, No Womb!, Sexuality, The New, NEW Black Woman, Thriving, by Kathy Henry

“As long as Black women continue to accept their subordinate status in the Black community, Black people will continue their descent into the gutter. Any community that is too foolish to listen to the voices of the women is doomed for failure. I learned the hard way that being a Race Woman has a high price and I cannot afford to do so any longer. No longer will I defend the actions of men who do not give a rat’s ass about women who look like me or my daughters.”

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Gay Men: The Black Community’s Favorite Whipping Boys.

Jan 22, in Black Women's Improvement Project (BWIP), Guests of the Inner Sanctum, No Wedding, No Womb!, Sexuality, by Kathy Henry

Our communities are plagued with rampant unemployment, drug and alcohol abuse, crime, and poverty but these issues are ignored because it is so much easier for all concerned to beat up on gay people.

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Ghetto Nation: What Went Wrong in the Inner City Black Community?

Jan 17, in Black Women's Improvement Project (BWIP), Family, No Wedding, No Womb!, by Kathy Henry

Take a stroll in any inner-city neighborhood: On any given afternoon, you will see groups of able-bodied young men lounging carelessly on street corners, smoking marijuana boldly on street corners bragging about their bitches, whores and baby mammas. Although these young men show clear shiftless tendencies, throngs of ride or die chicks, sometimes with several children in tow surround them, taking loudly while dressed in pajama bottoms and dingy white wife-beaters complete with the proverbial head scarf.

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Kathy Henry: “I Wonder What It’d Be Like to Be a White Woman, Just for a Day.”

Jan 15, in Beauty, Guests of the Inner Sanctum, Politics, by Kathy Henry

I have to admit, I wonder what it would be like to be a white female just for a day to see what it would be like to be considered Aphrodite rising from the sea, because at times it is hard being a black women in a society that is sexist and has placed women who look like me on the fringe of every ladder in American society, from economics to beauty and beyond.

Kathy Henry: When Will Black Women Ever Be Good Enough?

Oct 25, in Guests of the Inner Sanctum, by Kathy Henry

“When society feels the need to degrade and devalue the existence of black women and you are a black woman, tell society to kiss your entire ass.”

True Stories: Kathy Henry Talks Frankly About No Father, Molestation, and Feelings of Inadequacy

Aug 2, in Family, Guests of the Inner Sanctum, No Wedding, No Womb!, by Kathy Henry

“When I think about the molestation and my father abandoning me, I am filled with so much anger and hurt, it scared me and for years, I blocked it out. How can a man leave his child to fend for herself in such a harsh, cruel world? “