Do you really know what it means?
enslavement
Emasculation
Humiliation
Theft
Rape
Oversimplified
Economic depression
Marginalized
Torture
Education
Kidnapping
Pedophilia
Trafficking
Abuse
Just Because
The list goes on, but we’ve managed to overcome so much provocation only to be reminded often how worthless we are when our men are constantly targeted, harassed , humiliated just because…you are threatened ? I said just because yes.
When our children get beaten, labeled, arrested, stumped, raped and killed as of their lives have no meaning? They are our children and their lives matter to us.
Finally, no matter what our shade, hair texture, shape or size we are not thought of as beautiful nor attractive to the world. We are constantly stereotyped as a means of keeping us stagnated, such a pity, since we are women of natural beauty, a multitude of hair textures to do what ever we please with our hair, shapely and able to carry our various sizes with pride. We are not women to take for granted or to keep in a box. We literally are the universe personified as a woman, a black woman.
We are always looking to improve, reinventing ourselves and keeping our black king next to us while raising our children together.
Now you Know
But it seems the gatekeeper of human beauty standards and family image has a problem with this particular dynamic and it is forever lynching us and creating more deadly chasms than any one person can tolerate. We continue to rise and we go forward , never looking back, but instead learning from our history.
This is more than enough for any red blooded person to be angry about. So there it is, now you know.
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