Black Women Stereotypes

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My intelligence is far more than is perceived by the skin that I’m in. I am a beautiful black woman. I am 18 years of age, but have yet to get pregnant. I am a freshman in college, who has the determination to graduate and have the career I always wanted so that I wont need the government assistance. I am sometimes upset at my mistakes and the conflicts I encounter, but I am never loud and angry. Black women of today’s society are held to the stereotypes of getting pregnant at a young age, being on government assistance as an adult and being loud & angry. Many people say all black women get pregnant at a young age. My mother had me at the age of only 19. My mother is a successful woman with 2 degrees and has her own business. My friend …show more content…

The people at the office help you out to get a job; they will set up the interview, take and pick you up etc. Most people feel as if government assistance should be cut off in the U.S. I feel like a lot more people will struggle if that happens, there are woman in this world that have no help. There are women in this world that have 1 or more children with no father around and are actually out here struggling to make ends meet. It seems people that are upper class don’t have sympathy for lower class people simply because we are black. Every black female is not on government assistance, but for the ones that are, it really supports them, and without that, we could be living on the sidewalks. Take make matters worse many of us black women was raised without a father, without that male structure in our life. We were never raised with a male figure in the household. But ay of us also did have a father growing up. We have been through a lot, which could cause the angriness that were stereotyped under. We grew up only around our mother, aunts, grandmother etc. That could cause the loudness; all females are loud in there own way. People feel as if were loud because we are “ghetto” because we come from the “hood”, but not all females are loud that’s just one characteristics god blessed many of us

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