Black women are the least valued people in society

Beyonce’s Lemonade may have exposed the inner lives of black women, but in 2017 black women are still the least valued in society, and no one really seems to care.

After the huge public furore over the BBC gender pay gap, with much made of only one woman being in the top ten, it made me laugh out loud that you had to scroll way down the salary list to come across its first black women – actresses Tameka Epsom and Diane Parish.

Being a woman is one diversity tick-box, but being a black woman means dual discrimination.

Let me present the rest of the evidence M’Lord!

Politics

Let’s just look at MP Diane Abbott’s consistent abuse over the decades.

Diane makes one or two embarrassing blunders and she’s a national laughing stock.

It feels like Boris Johnson makes embarrassing blunders daily, but he’s just a lovable clown.

Their realities

Black women can’t even have their stories portrayed fairly and truthfully and are written out of their own realities.

When Sky recently made Guerrilla, about black Britain and activists in the 1970s, the lead protagonist was cast an Asian woman, Freida Pinto.

Yes, there were Asian women involved back then, but hundreds of black women were too.

Yet not one strong black woman was featured in the series, to public outcry.

When questioned about this the American director stated that he had wanted to put his own experience in a mixed-race relationship into the mix.

WTF?

You can’t just put your romantic dreamy American story on our very hardcore British one!

Mental health

Research from the Mental Health Foundation suggests that African-Caribbean people living in the UK are more likely to be diagnosed with severe mental illness than any other ethnicity in the UK.

People in the know say that the majority of women in mental health units are black, and as a community have the least support and most taboo on speaking up about it.

Death in public institutions

Sandra Bland joins a long list of black women who have died in police custody.

But it’s not just an American thing.

Sarah Reed died in Holloway Prison, but before this had also been assaulted by the police (PC James Kiddie was sentenced to just 150 hours of community service for grabbing Reed by the hair, throwing her on the floor…

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