But these women we see soaking in the tub in television ads, and sprawled out on Playboy centerfolds aren't just nameless beauties. Jackie Kennedy Onasis, Suzanne Sommers, and Brooke Shields have all been there. Nude photos of each of these women were published without their consent setting off court battles that ended in victory for the white male establishment. The white power structure has always sought to institutionalize its dominance over women through legislation, social policy, and religious tenet. The law evidently has more faith in menas seen by the pattern of legal decisions it has handed down which amount to little more than sexual abuses against women.
Sexism extends to all women, but black women are further subjugated by their color.
Being black and female doubly denies them of the right to liberty. Black women are the least employed, least paid, and least educated. Their physical image is left slandered in face of the beauty standards of the white majority class. Even with her professional parents, universal beauty, college degree, and white boyfriend, Vanessa Williams was not immune to the consequences of the exploitation of black female sexuality that distinctly differs from the exploitation of white female sexuality. The black female was enslaved repeatedly throughout history.