Thread by @iamn0tthe1

Wrote a little poem. Bet y’all didn’t know I was an artist. Like to here it; here it goes.

Resilience Training is for White Folks

By Michelle “Auntie Chelle” Drew

Dear HR: about that mandatory Resiliency Training:

I’m a have to say nah.

Black women don’t need to learn resilience.
We invented it in the belly of slave ships
Perfected it when we watched our lovers and babies ripped from our arms and sold off the plantation never to be seen again.

Fine tuned it when we watched our husbands lynched or sent to county work farms by Old Jim Crow

Became master teachers as we taught our daughters how to make houses chosen for us my Brown Codes and redlining into a home.

Became adjunct instructors in how not to lose our minds when we taught our sisters, cousins and neighbors to survive when their sons were funneled into the prison industrial complex or were just murdered in the streets like a dog.

And are now tenured professors at the University of Four Hundred Years of White Oppression as we listen to the white and privileged tell us that All Lives Matter and if we all just worked a little harder, Black folks would not be in the state we’re in.

No need to assign us as required reading a book that we wrote, book chapter and verse.

But you have a good day.

Sincerely,

Black women