It only takes One

So if you did not know I am a mental health advocate for minorities, I want to break barriers and erase the stigma of mental illness and get the individuals that need the help the help they need without worrying about cost; (www.mysisterskeeperohio.org). Along with being an advocate for minorities’ mental health issues, I am also a black feminist, which basically means I care about women issues as they relate to black women, and a lobbyist (I fight for better laws for the minorities mental ill and black women’s rights).

A mentor of mine, who don’t know she is a mentor, Monique, is fighting the fight of equality within the entertainment industry and she was black balled. I checked out a lot of her interviews about this on You Tube and I was blown away and had to write a post about my thoughts and feelings about it.

First I want to say I agree 100% with her view point; but let me back up and say this first; if you are an actor/actress, singer, writer (yes writer) and artist money should not EVER be your motivation to do what you are gifted to do. I am going religious now, God gave us all gifts to use to help others (our platform for change), with that being said our thought should be, ALWAYS, I am going to get good at my gift and once I do money will come.

Now once the money comes then it should be equal; a man (white or black) or white women should not make more then an African American woman doing the same thing. Honestly us, black women, are always the last to get anything, we actually get the left overs. The years of the…