Pastor Bryant is RIGHT! Women have got to stop being co-conspirators in our own oppresson
This article is written to Women of Color, I think ALL women should listen. The treatment we get is the treatment we accept.
I was only 22 years old but have always remembered a profound statement that the Rev. Williams-Bryant made at one point when she said that we as women have to stop being co-conspirators in our own rape.
I was reminded of that statement (which was made in a completely different context at a completely different time) as I watched the video of women, as well as men, shouting and clapping in affirmation of the now infamous statement, “these hoes ain’t loyal,” in a recent sermon by Pastor Bryant. And I had a very similar thought of my own. Women have got to stop being co-conspirators in our own oppression, whether it comes from the street corner, a rap artist or the pulpit.
Amid the current media uproar about whether Bryant is justified in quoting the misogynistic song sung by the allegedly physically abusive and allegedly relationally disloyal Chris Brown, I can’t help but wonder if the real issue here is not only what Bryant said from the pulpit, but why women, black women in particular, continue to be loyal to and support men who feel comfortable demeaning and demoralizing any women on any level with statements like this.