For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics

Stunning, brilliant and absolutely admirable, four powerful and political black women known as Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry and Minyon Moore recently came out with a book that details how badly America needs a homegirl intervention. Titled as “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics”, these stunning co-authors, politicians and political activists have paved the way for change.

As black women, the women laugh and claim that they’re every political without even trying. Throughout history, media and literature, black skin was ostracized and denied the recognition in social spheres that it rightfully deserved.

Fast forwarding to the future, these impressive women have sparked a conversation about acknowledging the presence of black women in politics. The underrepresentation of black women for centuries has denied them their political, social and urban rights, and who knows the narrative of the black woman better than a black woman herself?

Luckily, times seem hopeful – for now, at least . In New Orleans, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Boston, Charlottesville and Atlanta, black women have made powerful wins in the recent elections for city council, the mayoral race, and in elections for the state legislative, congress and gubernational spheres. The move was supercharged by black voters who showed up in record numbers and made their presence and needs known by voting – which also resulted in victories in areas like New Jersey, Virginia and Alabama!

Isn’t that brilliant?

With the new waves being made in black politics, women are challenging the historical narrative of the black woman and her life by clamoring for a seat in halls of power and in cabinets of influence. Politics has long been a man’s forte and with issues like reproductive rights, abortions, and matters pertaining to the female form and the female form belonging to different ethnicities, it’s a wondrous time we’re in when women of color are as powerful as their male counterparts – and equally capable of taking their place.

The argument used in the book by the aforementioned authors is also a call to women in power to use their power to help other women to rise. The glass ceiling is no joke, and with limited spaces for women in politics, these women are urging women of color, who hold powerful positions, to help other women rise above their circumstances and garner a better understanding of their political rights.

My mind is buzzing thinking about the brilliant change in the political infrastructure that’s yet to come – with powerful and educated women of color coming to power, who have seen the lack of rights and resources experienced by their fellow women, the narrative of politics could soon change into a more inclusive and more cohesive one.

 Anyway, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics” came out on the 2nd of October and is available for purchase in local bookstores and online. It’s time for a homegirl intervention!