Speaker 1: Hey, fam, I'm Jada Pinkett Smith. Check out this exclusive
Speaker 1: Red Table Talk bonus content. Well, I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 1: In a recent bizarre article, the headline reads what everyone
Speaker 1: gets wrong about high achieving Black women and depression. The
Speaker 1: higher black women climb, the more they're expected to control
Speaker 1: and suppress their emotions, sometimes to a debilitating effect. So
Speaker 1: what would you suggest for black women who are climbing
Speaker 1: up that ladder? And it's like all these expectations. Don't
Speaker 1: let them see you sweat, can't let them see you cry.
Speaker 1: As a black woman, it's almost as if you are
Speaker 1: not allowed to have any kind of reactions, emotions, nothing right,
Speaker 1: whether you outside the home or inside the home. I
Speaker 1: think it speaks to what you were saying, is that
Speaker 1: we carry so much of that weight around with us.
Speaker 1: Is it be a great question for what little answer?
Speaker 1: She feels like it? Who told us we need to
Speaker 1: carry all that stuff? Go ahead and answer the courtion?
Speaker 1: Who told us? When? Who told us stuff? I think
Speaker 1: it's generational and I think it's cultural. Um. I just
Speaker 1: think of the life of the black woman in America
Speaker 1: since the beginning, and the kind of psychological and physical
Speaker 1: and the weight it carries. We have to give ourselves
Speaker 1: permission to give yourself permission to put the weight down.
Speaker 1: You have to give yourself permission to know that at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, our value is in our existence.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's that's it. Yeah, it almost makes me
Speaker 1: want to cry. You don't have to do anything right,
Speaker 1: You don't have to wear anything to have anything your
Speaker 1: value because you're here. That's the miracle that it took
Speaker 1: for you to get here, in the miracle that it
Speaker 1: takes for you to stay here, that's your value. I
Speaker 1: love that. That's real talk. That's real talk. And I
Speaker 1: think for us as black women, where is your space
Speaker 1: to have despair? What you're supposed to do with that right?
Speaker 1: I feel in despair. Okay, bill still got to be paid.
Speaker 1: Family members still gotta be taken care of. You know,
Speaker 1: I have an Asian parent who lives with me. Daddy
Speaker 1: still needs to be taken care of. My kids are
Speaker 1: in high school. I still gotta take care of the kids.
Speaker 1: I still gotta work right, So there's no place to
Speaker 1: have despair. And I think the other piece of it
Speaker 1: is for black women, in many ways, it's more acceptable
Speaker 1: for us to be angry than us to be hurt. Ye,
Speaker 1: what you got to be heard about? Right? It's so
Speaker 1: important that we as women, Black women, White women, Latin women,
Speaker 1: Native American women, Asian women, women across the board, we
Speaker 1: really have to start changing the narrative, these patriarchal ideas
Speaker 1: of what a good woman is, what is you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? In this new era, were talking about
Speaker 1: female power, female empowerment and all of this kind of thing,
Speaker 1: and how we need to really start expanding and diversifying
Speaker 1: our own experiences as women and coming together and supporting
Speaker 1: one another in regards to mental health support because I
Speaker 1: know we as black women we got our burdens, but
Speaker 1: women across the boards, it's rough. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for listening to this bonus content.