Empowering For The Future

Appreciation versus Appropriation: The Stolen Culture of Black Women In today’s society, race and women’s issues are on a rise. Different race and women’s issues have come into question and the topics have become widely discussed on the news, social media sites, and in mainstream pop culture media. News anchors, night show hosts, talk show narrators, and many more have publicly stated racist and sexist comments about a particular person and subject highlighted in the media. For example, Bruce Jenner wanting to have a sex change started conversations all over the nation. He, becoming Caitlyn Jenner, faced very sexist comments from male anchors like Fox News Neil Cavuto and others have openly expressed homophobic and transphobic ideologies on national television. One example of racist comments made in the media this year is when Beyoncé used black power-suggested choreography and fashion during the Super bowl halftime show. Many people felt as though her tribute to the African America...