The Gabrielle Impact: “Why The Black Woman Is No Longer An Alien”

The out-pour of support and defense surrounding Gabrielle Douglas’s hair on the web is wonderfully refreshing, since her monumental success there have been more attempts at ostracism, but its failure comes as no surprise.  In the words of Evelyn Lozada, It’s a “Non-factor”. Black women have come very far from the days of disregard, backbiting and self-hatred. We’ve made an astonishing transformation in the areas of renewal and self-actualization in the past decade. African-American women have been made strong by the very same force which we we’re seemingly caged: being unidentified or otherwise irrelevant in the media.

 Like Gabby, excellent and professional Black women being heavily publicized in the media did create a sense of newness in American society. It has not been a frequent affair that the world has seen glory and black women being placed in the same category. Such a new thing is liable to have mixed reactions. First it was First Lady Michelle Obama’s style of dress and the bearing of her muscular arms, Now it’s Gabby’s hair that has come up to the scrutiny of those still unaware. For a long time a skilled, cultured black woman has been an alien to the world’s eye. Mainstream media didn’t see much like it before, now there is such a massive emergence of innovators, icons and outlets that it’s impossible to ignore.

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Post By: April D. Byrd

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