“The Untouchables” Starring Black Women! A Black Woman Addressing The Sacred Cow Known As The Black Woman!
by Tj Sotomayor July 5, 2014 26 commentsTell It Sista!
By: Tommy “Tj” Sotomayor
First off, I will be doing a video on this because this black woman literally said everything I say in a nutshell! I am so glad that more people are speaking out against how black women are putting people in positions of silence but until that video, please read this article.
The beautiful black woman who wrote this, her name is Nojma Muhammad, Make sure you go to click like on her fan page!
Now I wonder if her family will be attacked and she will be threatened? Please read this article and leave your opinions! Oh & P.S. Her Momma black!
“The Untouchables” Starring Black Women. By Nojma Muhammad
One of the definitions of untouchable is: beyond criticism, control, or suspicion.
As Black Women we have a tendency to think that we are beyond criticism, and when we are justifiably criticized we scream that we are being attacked, but have no problem verbally attacking Black Men, and because the Black Woman is so rebellious and out of control, it makes it difficult and almost impossible to control her(us). Black Men have a right to be suspicious of us at times. How many of us use our wombs for manipulation? How many of us have mastered how to manipulate men by graduating Magna cum laude, from the courses taught to us by our Mothers?
Two fallacies that we are guilty of as women that contribute to the “untouchable mentality” are:
“Special Pleading” and “The Sacred Cow”
Special pleading is a form of spurious argumentation where a position in a dispute introduces favorable details or excludes unfavorable details by alleging a need to apply additional considerations without proper criticism of these considerations themselves. Essentially, this involves someone attempting to cite something as an exemption to a generally accepted rule, principle, etc. without justifying the exemption.
In other words, everything we say is applicable to Black Men, and we have just cause, but they don’t and nothing they say is applicable and valid in regards to us.
Not only are we guilty of this fallacy we also normally combine it with our favorite conjunction; “but” or inclusive language such as “we and both”.
Here are a couple of commonly used examples when the Black Woman is in the hot seat:
As Black Women we will say how we have been effected by slavery and it will be justified. A Black Man says it, and it is an excuse.
As Black Women we will be VERY vocal about our pain, and again it’s justified. When Black Men do so, they are whining or are punks.
When it is pointed out that the Black Woman needs to get herself together, it quickly becomes WE need to work together.
Even if there is a SLIGHT acknowledgement it is quickly overshadowed by the use of a conjunction.
Yes Black Women should be accountable BUT so should Black Men.
While the above is true, it is normally being said as a deflection tactic.
This is the definition of the “Sacred Cow”:
A person, institution, custom, etc, unreasonably held to be beyond criticism.
This is what the Black Woman “thinks” she has become. We think we are above critique but certainly don’t mind critiquing others, ESPECIALLY Black Men.
Black Woman contrary to what you’ve been told, taught or led to believe you are NOT untouchable. You are NOT above reproach. You are NOT above being checked. You are NOT above being corrected. You are NOT without faults and flaws. You are NOT always the victim. In our circumstances we must learn to accept accountability, responsibility and culpability.
It’s not ALWAYS him. Sometimes its YOU(us). Sometimes it’s OUR mouths, our attitudes, our air of superiority, our self righteous, our rebelliousness, our dysfunctional behavior, our unwillingness to look at ourselves. We have been placed on a make shift pedestal so we have a tendency to look down at Black Men and want them to look “up” to us in a superior manner. We sit on this “throne” as if we are REAL Queens and expect Black Men to be our subjects, our jesters, our entertainment and our peasants. We are so quick to sentence them to a lifetime of accountability, but will squirm, bat eyelashes, flash a pretty smile(among other things)to escape accountability.
One of the downfalls of those with an arrogant mindset is that they can’t be touched, or checked. If you can’t be humble enough to be checked, then don’t get upset when no one is checking FOR you.
26 Comments so far
Jump into a conversationWow this is well said, I give her a standing ovation for this one.
Shahrazad Ali had to be the surrogate moms of Nojma Muhammad! #IJS
Amen!
Shahrazad is a clown.
Nice, its a start.
BARS!!! IN OTHER WORDS. GOOD FOUCKING JOB MY SISTER.
Stil love ’em, but too many inflated egos; gotta let the air out of the balloon.
Wow, not one black woman with enough character to comment yet huh? Hmm…
I like the thinking she puts into this article. She speaks real and I can see how not many black women can or will argue her points and the haters will just keep hating.
finally. a sista with a head on her shoulder. sad that will intimidate any man approaching her.
no. any boy approaching her. don’t insult real men like that.
AMEN . I thank u for putting in words That most of us are thinkig,
Preacher sister. Amen
Not a single black woman has anything to say yet
I love when people use consistent logic to backup claims! Wonderful article.
I applaud Nojma for writing this! I agree 100% with her views. I just wish that more of our sisters would read this and then take a long hard look at themselves! How many of us have done some of the examples she gave? We( black women) have to check ourselves! We can come across like we can do no wrong. In my experiences with black men, too many have been hurt or misused by us! This makes it so hard for the next woman and man for that matter! We as black women need to go back to our feminine ways. This ghetto, hoodrat, thot behavior needs to stop! I’m so sick and tired of women degrading themselves over and over again! If you don’t have love and respect for yourself, how can you then expect someone to love and respect you! Please ladies, sisters, women use your mind and your words not your fists!! There is nothing less flattering then seeing two or three women, girls, ladies fighting unti they come out if their clothes or hair! Okay I’m done for now, but I pray we, black women, get it together!!
I agree with her 150% its irritating to speak or listen to Black women talk around me I always hold my position when they try to deflect. Honestly I had no idea I was guilty of doing that until I started listening to Tommy. I’ve matured so much, I feel more clear headed in my thoughts and I no longer feel vitimized rather I feel empowered.
I think more blk women need to read this, but most would get offended. A large portion of blk women will miss this, it will go over their heads! She is absolutely right from every angle. I wish blk women would wake up! I’m so tired of being judged due to the way other blk women, time for blk men to start checking these females and leave alone until they change. It’s becoming common for other races to say to me: “You don’t act blk” and blk women to be mad at me saying I’m “acting” white. When I wanted better I did better.
I totally agree with her. Unfortunately the black women who really need this message either will not understand it or or be offended by the content. I am constantly confronted by this type of behavior by black women and their justifications for such behavior truly bewilders me. However these are the same women who can’t land or keep a decent man in their lives. Instead of listening to someone who has more knowledge on the things they may be going through in their lives and try to change, the majority of them blame the man in order to maintain and justify their life of utter dysfunction. The cycle continues.
some may object to what i’m about to say oh well yes offensive because again we have a foreign person informing black woman as a whole that this is the behavior of the majority i can’t write about how other blacks are living in thier country’s in wholeness because I am not aware of thier social conditioning nor am I a part of thier country’s I can only become familiar by interactions but should i have a voice within thier country’s yes to some degree would my opinion clearly represent thier country no .i thank her for writing what black woman who reflect already knows but again it falls short of the issues as a whole
Don’t ask for too much. It’s not meant to be a fix-all. It’s simply saying that many black women aren’t being fair and should re-think their interactions with men. That’s it. Nothing more.
She’s from the NOI not an actual nation.
I understand her point of view / opinion 1000% but, while other peoples comments are
agreeing with the “stop acting ratchet, ghetto, and holier than thou, and too good to be told
anything that is opposite of what I’m doing”, these females need to also read a lil deeper
into the OTHER things she specified, like (in a simple terminology) stop using your vagina
as some kind of mental & financial weapon on a man for power.
What I see and hear (in music as well as their lifestyle) some of these women (not only my
sista’s–caucasians also) will automatically proclaim act for benefitting from these men they
date/ hook-up with/ have a 1 night stand with/ or an “itch” that needs to be scratched.
When the 9month “Ooops” is here then its time to be that woman this intelligent lady
just described. Its time for that real wake-up call!!
I’m an african-american woman also.
well said, i loved it. She makes me think that there’s hope for black women.
Meh, I agree with some points but some of this is not “rational” at all. Why do some black people have such extremist views of each other, only extrapolate the negative from situations, and use their own opinions and SPEAK for all black women or the whole black women do this, black women do that type thing?
I respect her opinion, but it is just that, her opinion. I am tired of people speaking for black women and telling black women what they need to be doing, and what they are doing wrong; who is right and who is wrong, how do you even come to that conclusion? How about YOU be the change you want to be and respect the fact that EVERYONE has their OWN beliefs, thoughts, and values. If more people would take responsibility for their own feelings, behaviors, and thoughts they would realize that not everyone is the same, and that sometimes it is best to speak for yourself and generalize upon a whole group of people.
Lastly, I’m befuddled as to why she would name the movie the Untouchables? Does she even know where that word originates from? The untouchables were the lowest caste people in Hindu society that were looked down upon and were literally untouchable because people believe their lowliness would pollute the higher castes. Kind of ironic as this is how black women are sometimes viewed in society and some black women(*cough, cough*) have drank the kool aid and refuse to see how they might have internalized this and take it out on other black women, then you have pieces like this telling black women what they “should” be doing, when they don’t realize it might be their own internalized views of not being good enough speaking, instead of them “keeping it real” and “speaking the truth”. Your opinion is not fact.
lol
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