HUNDREDS OF PROMINENT BLACK WOMEN SIGN LOVE LETTER TO WNBA PLAYERS TO STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THEM FOR USING THEIR VOICES ON AND OFF THE COURTS
Dear Sisters, we are also with you in decrying the divisive rhetoric that is coming from the highest offices in our land, including the racist and misogynist language being used about Black women, including Vice President candidate Senator Kamala Harris. As our shero Shirley Chisholm once said: “The emotional, sexual and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It’s a girl.” And as Black women, we continue to struggle with the double jeopardy that comes from being Black and women.
Indeed, the struggle continues! As the late Congressman John Lewis said: “Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year; it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” We recognize that is what you have been doing: getting in good trouble. For example, when you wore those 2016 T-shirts that said: “Change Starts with Us: Justice & Accountability. “And since then, your “good trouble” has grown into a unified and consistent voice in the call for equality and justice in our country.
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