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.’”
The author, a beautiful Black woman from the South Side of Chicago, denounces being beautiful when it comes from Trump, who mentions Black women's bodies in vanity politics for deeply violent colonial rewards.
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's summary: Beauty won't bring liberation.
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