Seeing the uproar around #TDJakes comments, my friend and I have this conversation ALL the time about Black women. I will die on this hill- Black women (overall) have NEVER had the luxury of simply being. We never had the luxury to just have a smooth life.
Black women were brought to the country in chains. Our men shackled. We have been raped, beaten, abused, nursed children we didn’t birth, watched our men be slaughtered, and still had to work in fields for a harvest we never enjoyed, work in homes we never owned.
Black women have never been afforded the opportunity to be, to relax, to laugh, to lounge, to not go to work, to stay at home and take care of house and kids with no worries about bills. When has that time period EVER existed for Black women?
Black women aren’t strong because we just LOVE being strong. We never had the opportunity to be anything else. That is what is missing from the conversation. Black women were robbed of a life of luxury.
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