Please Stop Telling Me How Strong I Am

Vena Moore
Fearless She Wrote
Published in
4 min readOct 3, 2019

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Please Stop Telling Me How Strong I Am

Recently during a discussion I had with a white friend, she said the dreaded sentence. “Black women are so strong.”

I immediately recoiled because even though that sentence may seem positive, it’s an extremely loaded one for me.

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Vena Moore
Fearless She Wrote

Dismantling white, male supremacy one word at a time.