How could a man fight so fiercely for Black people while allegedly speaking so dismissively about Black women? He claimed there was an “unfeminine aspect” to Black women and suggested their changing political consciousness had made them increasingly militant and masculine. Could it be these Black men wanted to outdo their white men counterparts. Too often, they were expected to fight beside Black men for racial equality while absorbing rejection, ridicule and misogynoir from those same men. If Hollywood only gives us the hero while erasing the Black women wounded along the way, it is not preserving a legacy, but instead it is protecting one.