I think this opening example is important because it tells us that not all women’s lives matter. Only certain women’s lives matter, especially if you are famous and have money and status. According to the reading, many black women had complications giving birth and were more likely to die than white women. Only when a famous and wealthy black woman like Serena Williams gave birth and had complications did the media take heed. All women’s lives are not treated equally. There have been so many black women’s lives lost giving birth, but it never matters because these were just ordinary black women. Only when Serena Williams had complications, then it became important. Why? Because she is famous and wealthy. She meant something to society because she is an asset, unlike ordinary black women who do not have money or are not famous. You have to be a celebrity, and then your voice or life matter to society. I quote, “because she was Serena Williams, twenty-three-time grand slam champion, they complied. Undefined “If I wasn’t who I am, it could have been me,” she told Glamour, referring to the fact that the privilege she experienced as a tennis star intersected with the oppression she experienced as a Black woman, enabling her to avoid becoming a statistic herself. As Williams asserted, “that’s not fair” (paragraph 12 D’lgnazio and Klein). Just recently, in the Trinidad Express newspapers, there was a young 22-year-old woman who got kidnapped and murdered. This was taken up very seriously by authorities only because she works as a clerk in the Magistrate Court. There had been lots of kidnapping, raping, and murdering of females, but it went under deaf ears. That is very unfair; all women need to get the same justice.