Last year, Megan Thee Stallion wrote a letter about the lack of protection for Black women and as a result, Rep Maxine Waters sent her a letter commending her for her efforts. Fast forward a couple of month, Megan got a chance to interview Rep. Waters for her Harper's Bazaar spread.
Megan revealed what it meant to receive a letter from Rep. Waters, saying, “Just to receive any type of recognition from the wonderful Ms. Waters, it really blew by my mind. Because, I know that me being a young Black woman in my generation—what I fight for, the things that I talk about every day–it seems new for us because we’re just now going through it. But to be recognized by a Black woman who has always spoke out about these issues and has always been an advocate for Black women and the whole Black community, I felt overwhelmed. I felt seen. I just felt very appreciative.”
Rep Waters responded, saying, “I was moved by your article and I was so pleased that you wrote the article for a lot of reasons. Often times, particularly it happens with entertainers. They put you in a box. And somehow they don’t see you as a person who has a life that includes family, that includes interactions, decisions that you have to make, that has nothing to do with your performance. So they don’t see you as thinking about the plight of Black women or civil rights or any of these issues, so that’s why I was very pleased that you wrote it…”
REP WATERS REACTS TO 'WAP'
During the interview, Rep. Waters also told Megan what she thought of “WAP,” saying, “I listen to the young people around me and they may tell me something maybe you ought to pay attention to. But then they told me to look at, was it WAP?”
She continued, “Don’t worry, don’t worry, don’t worry. I said, 'Now that’s audacity. That is audacity.' And that is the ability for women to take charge of what they want to say. I had paid attention to the young gangster rap time, when men were in charge. They said whatever they wanted to say about women, what have you. But women didn’t say, for a long time, what they could say or wanted to say or dared to say. And so I thought 'that’s audacity.'”
