And she, like all of us is entitled to her opinions, but it is clear to me she doesn’t like herself or see herself clearly. I imagine that Sage Steele spoke from her heart on her global ESPN platform. This privilege is something they refuse to acknowledge, and like the Karens we see on a daily harassing Black and Brown people, they act clueless as to the impact of their entitlement and duplicitous actions. I had to walk on eggshells with my former sister-in-law, as did my mom, to not offend her sensibilities when in reality my very presence offended her and women like her who are privileged and have advantages for no other reason than being white and female. How do two girls, with a beautiful blonde-haired, blue-eyed mother, who has zero clue about Black culture, or the Black experience, balance their own reality of being half Black?
Gabby Petito’s death is a tragedy, but what about Black and Brown women and girls?Īs someone who is very in touch with her own Blackness, her community and her “woman of color” identity, it has been a very painful struggle for me to watch my nieces struggle with their identities. The lines drawn were pretty clear back then, culturally speaking, because if you had “one drop” of Black blood you were considered Black. This is unlike previous generations like my paternal great grandmother and her mother who was considered a “mulatto” (a term used from slavery onward to describe mixed-race Black and white children). Not just on matters of race, but on politics and American culture. The truth is that Steele’s remarks revealed to us the growing generational divide that is upon us. Steele’s father is a Black man and her mother is white, yet she had no issue degrading President Obama’s father as “being nowhere to be found,” which is a very prevalent stereotype lobbed at Black men to imply that they are absent from their children’s lives, less engaged or less caring parents. They also, as is evidenced by Steele’s statements, embrace white stereotypes and definitions about Black men and women.ĮSPN anchor Sage Steele told Jay Cutler it was “fascinating” Obama indicated he was Black on his census form “considering his Black dad was nowhere to be found.” /dfrnDydFd8- Resist Programming ? October 3, 2021 They say they don’t “see color” when the world we live in very obviously sees color and is obsessed with it 24/7. What is more troubling is that Steele and many biracial people of her generation do not simply identify as Black, or Brown, because they have a parent who is white. Census “considering his Black dad was nowhere to be found but his white mom and grandma raised him”) were troubling to me because I have seen this type of thinking up close and personal in my own family. Steele’s comments last week about President Barack Obama (Steele said she thought it was “fascinating” that Obama identified himself as Black on the U.S. And like ESPN anchor Sage Steele, they are beautiful, smart, adult women. I have biracial nieces who are the sunshines of my life. (Photo by Robin Marchant/Getty Images for () LOUISVILLE, KY - MAY 04: Sage Steele attends Culinary Kickoff At Kentucky Derby at Muhammad Ali Center on in Louisville, Kentucky.
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