The conversation of the massive expectation on black women to keep a strong and powerful image has opened up after rapper Megan Thee Stallion named rapper Tory Lanez as her shooter.

Over a month ago, Megan Thee Stallion had been a victim of gun violence after being shot in both of her feet, but she never confirmed who her shooter was. The general public suspected it was Lanez, but nothing had been confirmed yet.

Stallion took to Instagram to post pictures of her foot injury after rumors on social media boiled over and implied that Megan lied about her incident.

“Y’all really be believing the sh*t YALL make up,” she said in her post. The general public still did not want to believe her even after she posted such a graphic photo of her injury.

On Aug. 20 Megan took to twitter to tweet a cryptic message that had people speculate she was talking about Tory Lanez. “Lie one more time and ima quit sparing you,” she tweeted. Soon after she got on Instagram Live and proceeded to speak her truth.

“Yes this ngga Tory shot me, yes you shot me and you got your publicist and your people going to these blogs lying and sh*t,” she said.

This incident opened a larger conversation of the great expectation put on black women to be strong and powerful all the time that their pain is looked at as a joke.

Throughout this entire incident there has been a great amount of memes, tweets and comments that made jokes about Megan and her injuries. What this showed is that black women have such an expectation to be strong and powerful all the time that when they are hurt it gets overlooked.

“Stop fcking acting like black women is the motherfcking problem, stop acting like black women is aggressive when all they be doin is speaking the motherfcking facts and you motherf*ckers can’t handle it,” she said.