This is a black women's issue. You cannot ask an outside group to view you differently. You have to show something different. And that goes for any group of people. Black men have their own set of problems and the same goes for us too.
You can't blame Hip Hop for the portrayal of black women. Hip Hop is only narrates what it sees. Just like violence can't be blamed on Hip Hop. Hip Hop only tells the stories of violence that are seen everyday within the community.
If black women want that narrative to change, they must change it. It starts with the individual.
My father is a big tipper at restaurants. He told me that the stereotype is that black men don't tip well so he single-handedly set out to change that notion one server at a time. Let's be honest folks, these negative stereotypes began somewhere.
My sister was a waitress in college. She is a black woman. Her boss told her on her first day that black women were the worst customers. She told her that they would be the most demanding and the lousiest tippers. My sister couldn't ask her boss "Please stop saying those things about black women." No, black women need to change those perceptions through their actions. Just like black women can't say to Hip Hop, please don't portray us in such n such light. Instead they need to go to the worst of their group and smack em upside their heads and tell em to act right! They are embarrassing you.
When a child acts up in school, he embarrasses his parents, his family. But his mom can't go to the teachers lounge and ask the teachers to stop talking about how bad her son is. She needs to go to her son and smack him upside the head and tell him to act right!
This is blatant excuse making and blame deflecting. When we learn to take responsibilities for our actions, both individually AND collectively, only then will we begin to thrive as a people.
And I don't mean just black women because black men have our own issues that we need to address and and black people as a whole have issues to address as well. It's time to grow up and be adults. No more finger pointing.