Unnamed commenter BWE
This food here was much needed!!! I was thinking about that Tupac line "Delores Tucker, youse a motherfucker. Instead of tryin to help a nigga you destroy a brother" the other day. I was thinking about how f'd up Tupac was. And to think about that line in the context of what was said about black women sacrificing themselves and blackistan conditioning black women to do so. That line now says to me that Tupac expected (like many other black male creatures) black women to sacrifice themselves, and their images, for the benefits of black males. And if you come for them to protect yourself, he thinks you're destroying a "brother." Why many black women keep their mouths shut about the ill behavior of black males. They're concerned about destroying a "brother." Hell, like what was said about Korryn keeping her mouth shut about having her ass beat by the man she died for. Cold shit.
And I've also read about how black women of the Civil Rights era were treated. When I was getting my BA in Africana Studies, I happened to take a class on black women (how f'd up is it to have to stumble upon a class on black women issues in a discipline on black people and their issues). And in reading But Some of Us Are Brave, those women's complaints about how they were treated sounded JUST LIKE what these creatures say today. Those that were "down" were met with all these standards they needed to meet to be acceptable to those creatures and their "liberation" organizations. Lots of black women sacrificed themselves, gave up college educations, had babies early, allowed themselves to be passed around amongst creatures for sex, got arrested, sat in prison, dressed a certain way, fell victim to fake ass polygamous relationships. Now, there's these black women, completely clueless to the accounts some black women have shared about being the sacrifice without honor and reciprocity and still being hella disrespected, out here repeating history and doing the same shit those women somewhat woke up from. Poor Korryn Gaines, and us black women, need that knowledge. The conditioning she experienced, and many black women experience, is so self-destructive. The history is so f'd up and hidden from us as black women (especially hidden by black males) that we continue to offer ourselves up for the slaughter and deal with the same bull shit without making any demands. And then to be told we're always doing it wrong. We'll NEVER EVER be right.
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