Femme Felines

About two weeks ago, “social justice” activists found a new Black woman to attack on Twitter. Anok Yai, an extremely popular South Sudanese model, was their target this time. I sat there and watched as multiple Black women accused this innocent girl of being undeserving of her wonderful modeling career. They claimed it was solely her “eurocentric features” that led to her being a successful woman in an industry known for being cutthroat. I could not help but be in complete and utter shock at the tweets I was reading. Black women, as a collective, seem to be lost. Why are we allowing white women to claim our beauty as belonging to them? Why do we self-sabotage ourselves when we finally get positive promotion in the media? This attack on Anok Yai was anything but in good faith. This was out of pure hatred for darkskin Black women who excel in an industry based on beauty. There is a malicious war on Black women’s image. There is a horrific agenda to claim that Black women and our bodies a