I guess you could call me an angry black woman. I
sometimes feel so bad that the media talks negatively about me all the time and
even our First Lady Michelle Obama has been referred to in those same terms. It
seems that few bother to understand why the angry black woman evolved.
People often refer to Dr. King’s “Dream” and assume
a collective reality. The dictionary defines a dream as a succession of images,
thoughts, or emotions occurring during sleep; a dream is a goal or an aim; a
dream is a wild fantasy or something of unreal beauty; a dream is to conceive
something remotely. I noticed that the word dream is listed somewhere between
dreadful and dreary. Yes, even though I’m a black woman, I have hopes and
dreams, just like everyone else. If your dreams have been shattered, you might
be angry too. For some of us, struggling each day, life is not a dream, it’s a
nightmare.
