I typed in black girls and young black girls in Google and was astonished to see what Elaine Richardson said was true. I scrolled down and went through pages trying find something positive about black girls, and I found nothing; the pornographic websites littered the page. It made me wonder of how many people typed the same thing in Google and though that black girls were whores and had no class. When I typed young white girls or white girls, porn did not show up. The heavy contrast was extremely disturbing.
Elaine Richardson’s To Protect and To Serve states “music videos, television talk shows, new shows, newspapers and, tabloids show us one sided and often times disfigure the representation of African American females” (Richardson 677). I think this is very true but I also think that African American women have the duty and power to break the mold. I find that some African American prefer to settle for what is given to them instead of striving to become better than the ghetto project girl that society expect them to be. Reading the excerpt in To Protect and To Serve made me appreciate attending Spelman College even more. I know that not every female here was born with a silver spoon but we are all here striving to buy our own spoon. The decision to attend Spelman makes the statement that as an African American female you choose to be educated and not settle for anything but the best.
- Nehemie Villarceau