A person on
Had asked the question:
The person above told the person not to write about races that they are not, but as a black woman, I do not suggest this as we cannot ask for diversity then bash people when they try to add it.
I encourage writing about other races as long as you do not discriminate.
It’s best to learn about Stereotypes when you do this.
I made the 13th answer on the thread, and this answer is far more helpful, in my opinion:
I have no issues with black men or white people writing about black women at all, but a few things I’d like to include as a black woman:
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Writing us as whores. We hate this. We feel it’s a stereotype and offensive because of our religion.
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Bashing our Christianity and Christians in general because so many of us are Christian that many feel slighted and insulted. Over 70 percent of black people in a 2020 poll showed we were Christians and were more likely to be Christians than other groups in America. Our belief in God strengthens us in our hard times.
The fact that most black people are Christians is why insulting Christianity in a black movie will turn away many black people and offend us.
We are not against Christianity, and it helped us gain the strength we needed to fight slavery.
It was pastors, black pastors like MLK, that helped us out of segregation and oppression.
We believe that MLK was the modern-day Moses.
When writing a black female character, making her Christian is realistic, but it’s also risky if you are not Christian because non-Christian writers have serious biases about Christianity.
Making her unintelligent is massively offensive to the black community if it’s known that she was built that way for being Christian because many of us are Christians and feel discriminated against for being Christians and experience workplace discrimination based on our religion and race.
Especially if a black person ran away from Nigeria, where the Oppression of Christians was getting out of hand, it would be very insensitive.
DO NOT try to make black people feel bad for staying Christian after slavery, and it’s HIGHLY offensive and rude.
- DO NOT make dark skinned women look like whores or pin the light skinned against dark skinned, all skin tones are beautiful. Dark skinned black women are people too, portray black people like you’d portray white people. It’s not unrealistic for us to be doctors, lawyers, presidents or scientists, even if we are Christians.
- Portray positive black-on-black relationships without bashing interracial ones. We will not hate a black man for dating a white woman and vice versa, and we can have good relationships with Christian black men or otherwise.
Plenty of us have fathers helping us raise our kids. Plenty of us had fathers growing up, and not every fatherless household had a dad that left; many have DEAD dads, not deadbeat, DEAD, which means they died of murder, disease, accidents, natural disasters, poison, addiction, and sometimes trying to save their kids. Some of us had Army dads and divorced or separated parents.
- Dark-skinned people are not all overweight. Darker-skinned people are not all mentally ill. I have no issue with Big Black Women and will not bar you from making the black woman plump, but you can do it while being considerate. Do not bash her for being fat or put in too many stereotypes of fat people. It is offensive to overweight people.
- Us black women are VERY feminine. We prize our looks. We do not want to go out looking ugly. We are not more masculine.
- Black neighborhoods can be suburban, and I live in the suburbs. We have a lot of Mexicans and blacks. It’s a good neighborhood. Not all of us live in the ghetto. Many black people are okay with good black people moving into the community if they are trying to escape the ghetto.
Just because we do not like nor live in the ghetto and are successful does not mean we are devoid of black culture; we can use black dialect and slang or the general American dialect with no slang.
There are many black rich women as well who are the same. Just because we’re rich does not mean we forgot where we came from; we will not freak out because a black woman is braiding her friend’s hair outside their home.
- Most Black women do not promote or support drugs. I am firmly against drugs. I’m even against weed. We know the dangers, we’ve heard of it.
- Black American culture does not always equal Africa. It does not equal crime, gangs, or drugs, either. We may also like Rock music, pop, K-pop, classical music, and other types. To me, Black American culture is similar to the rest of America.
This is my experience as a Black Christian in America.
I made this post because I wanted to debunk some stereotypes, especially the ones that they black women are more masculine, which is just utterly false.
