Ugly For The Empire: Why Our Beauty Won’t Free Us
It’s time to stop confusing aesthetic praise of ‘beautiful’ Black women in the sociopolitical sphere for liberation.
A few weeks ago, Trump addressed reporters in the Oval Office about the possibility of deploying the National Guard to Chicago to threaten and harass civilians.
“African-American ladies [in Chicago], beautiful ladies,” he lied, “are saying, ‘Please President Trump, come to Chicago, please.’”
I know I am a beautiful Black woman from the South Side of Chicago. But when it comes from Trump—when he mentions our bodies in vanity politics for deeply violent colonial rewards—I suddenly denounce being beautiful.
Almost a year beyond the election of his second term, the veil has been lifted on Donald Trump’s obsession with the appearance of Black women for political gain.
Author summary: Liberation isn't about beauty praise.
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