Sleeping Beauty: Amnesia & the Black Woman

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Sleeping Beauty is a love story, which includes a princess and a handsome prince.

The wicked fairy curses the princess at the christening of a long-wished-for princess, fairies invited as godmothers offered gifts, such as beauty, wit, and musical talent. However, a wicked fairy that had been overlooked placed the princess under an enchantment as her gift, saying that, on reaching adulthood, she would prick her finger on a spindle and die. A good fairy, though unable to completely reverse the spell, said that the princess would instead sleep for a hundred years, until awakened by the kiss of a prince and true loves first kiss.

The princess meets the old woman, spinning The king forbade spinning on distaff or spindle, or the possession of one, upon pain of death, throughout the kingdom, but all in vain. When the princess was fifteen or sixteen she chanced to come upon an old woman in a tower of the castle, who was spinning. The Princess asked to try the unfamiliar task and the inevitable happened. The wicked fairy's curse was fulfilled. The good fairy returned and put everyone in the castle to sleep. A forest of briars sprang up around the castle, shielding it from the outside world: no one could try to penetrate it without facing certain death in the thorns.

The prince finds everyone asleep at the castle. After a hundred years had passed, a prince who had heard the story of the enchantment braved the wood, which parted at his approach, and entered the castle. He trembled upon seeing the princess' beauty and fell on his knees before her. He kissed her, then she woke up, then everyone in the castle woke to continue where they had left off...

This story holds much symbolism to the black woman and her current status today.

One could argue that collectively the black woman has fallen asleep. That she does not know who she is, and that she has lost her place in society. The variations of amnesia have caused the Black woman to take on eurocentric archetypes, to become spiritually dormant and divinely bankrupt. It's time that we wake her up and restore her to her rightful place.

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