ADRIANA SAID: "I’m tired of being objectified! ".

I’m tired of seeing black women being objectified. If you’re born a black woman, you have to know how to samba, you have to know how to cook, you have to know how to do wash, iron, and be sensual. If you’re born with features that approach what is judged pretty, then you become a mulata, you don’t even have to know how to do domestic work, but you have to know how to samba and be sexy, in case you don’t want to be boxed into this objectification, hearing a loud and strident “You can only be a black woman.” If you’re born with features that don’t fit the standards that they think are pretty, then your role is domestic work, and in the darkness of night you serve as the seductress you are assumed to be, if not in effect yielding to the caprices of the white employer/oppressor – again a loud and strident “You can only be a black woman.” I’m not an object, and I’m not going to accept being objectified.