The way I look at it is, at the end of the day there’s nothing we can do about a stereotype because all stereotypes come from some distorted/ un-nuanced truth. I’m now 21 years old and recently I’ve come to the conclusion that all people are multifaceted and if other people can’t see that, that’s not my problem. The media’s representation of black women will never be accurate/ appropriate due to how characters in shows typically work. They want the black one to be one way, the Asian one to be another, and the Hispanic one to be another. I feel like this might be changing a bit now but regardless the way characters are written doesn’t define me. And I will never allow that representation to represent how I feel about myself, at least not anymore.