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