Or you got called out on your dismissive racial shit once again. It's not the wording it's the people involved. If it were Asian girls rock trust me no one would give a fuck. Dueces.
Not necessarily. There will be some white folks who object to that too. Hell, there may be even some black women who object because black girls are being excluded. It is possible. That being said I would concur an Asian Girls Rock celebration would lead to less pushback because Asians aren't the racial group flashpoint as black folks are to many white Americans. There are white people who will always reflexively respond, in a negative fashion, to anything black people do.
Then again when some feel they are being excluded they immediately resort to defensive postures. A Super Bowl commercial caused a twitter uproar because it was basically a sixty second celebration of girls in general. This led to backlash by plenty of guys who went on twitter denouncing and belittling the commercial. They asked....why can't we celebrate ALL kids, both boys and girls? This led to gals and guys both chastising men who were so insecure that they couldn't handle the rare sports commercial that championed girls.
One issue I have with this whole Black Girls Rock thing is that BET could have done a Girls Rock which was aimed at black girls without having to add the "black" adjective to it in the first place. Hell, it's BET. What other girls would they be referring to. Often I think we as black people go too far trying to separate ourselves from others, including the mainstream. At times it is understandable, at times it is even necessary. Yet at times it seems as if we are too willing to play a hand in segregating ourselves from other groups. Even worse black women, from my experience, don't just stop with being pigeon-hold into a racial subcategory; they love to take it to a whole nee level by making their events/actions/celebrations/groups a subcategory of a damn subcategory. So everything is black women this, black women that.
An example in the DC area was when there started to be a push for black folks to break the stereotype that they weren't into riding bikes (which is greatly increasing in popularity in this part of the country). So a couple of African American women came up with an idea to form a group of like-minded black riders who would debunk this notion. But instead of forming a black riders association for all and any black person to join, they formed a black women's riders association instead. Here was an opportunity to form a first ever group of black bicyclists in the Nation's Capitol, and these ladies thought that aiming for an even lower number of participation by excluding an entire sex was the better route to go. Why?
In Hollywood there are far less black male writers than black female writers on TV shows. Black women have the upper hand there unlike white women compared to white men. Yet black women in the industry form these associations for black women only, which exclude the black dudes who have less clout and less numbers in the business. You don't really see that with Asians and Latinos who are trying to get a leg up. They are typically forming support groups or starting associations that include both men and women. This is probably because they realize that as a minority it is best for their racial group if they pool all of their resources from both sexes. But black women routinely want their own group for themselves. That's their mindset.
This is why Oprah Winfrey can get the approval of ABC to do specials celebrating famous black people and she chooses to pick only females to be celebrated. I don't know. If an Arabic woman became so popular down the road that she would be given the opportunity to put on such a rare special celebrating Arab-Americans for a national audience, I doubt she would limit it to just one sex (female).
And that brings me back to Black Girls Rock. First of all it should be pointed that years earlier someone came up with a celebration called Girls Rock which was for girls of all races. In typical fashion BET stole the idea and in typical fashion black women made it all about themselves by adding the "Black" to the title. But what is lost is that Girls Rock was founded to combat the issue of self-esteem problems and perceptions that girls on average face in this nation. Problem is though is that black girls may be the only group of young ladies in the nation who tend to do so much better than their male counterparts of their race. In fact there are reports that black boys may suffer more self-esteem issues than black girls. That shouldn't be a surprise considering the black community, unlike other American communities, is a predominantly matriarchal community. Far more black women are the head of households with children, far more black females are employed, far more black females get college degrees, etc. Black boys don't have many male role models to emulate. One report mentioned that black boys are less likely to see teachers of their own race and sex than white boys, white girls and black girls. Add on incarceration rates and the highest percentage of violent deaths that black men in America have to contend with and it would seem clear that black boys would need at least as much of a pick-me-up celebration that BET and others give black girls. But they get nothing.
It all reminds me of the Lady Soultrain Awards (don't know if that was a black woman's idea). Did we really need a separate Soul Train Awards Show for females only, especially considering women have always been widely celebrated in the R&B field (unlike other genres) and thus had their contributions readily acknowledged?
