Success and maintaining the status quo has helped many forget the “risk” of just being Black…but it will always rear its head unexpectedly.
Wondering if your child will return home daily is something no parent should endure…Yet, Black parents must.
Black women carry that “fear” and “mental anguish” around pretending we can cope with it…knowing it’s eating, us alive inside and weighing down on us physically, mentally and spiritually…our children can see it in our eyes and hear it in our voices.
No woman faces the fear and constant disturbance in the atmosphere like a mother of a black child.. We are the only group of mothers that know it’s just a matter of time and can almost smell the death of our offspring in the air...praying that later on, we will not be haunted with afterthoughts of what could we have done differently to save them?
We’ve birthed a species no one will admit is endangered…. Yet, death is the companion embracing our children…Its forever lingering and foreshadowing them, either by the hands of those that look like them because they’re filled with self-hatred or by the hands of those in authority because they’re not properly trained to relate to the psychology of the oppressed (Blacks)..Regardless, it hurts the Mothers, just the same. We tell, “Death, not today.” Read the article, “Death, Not Today” click link here, Death, Not Today
Those are our “gifts” many seem to have very little regard for..the miracles we’ve carried in our womb, every time we see one murdered, we can most certainly feel it..each Black Mother can feel each murder deep within… it penetrates her subconscious through her womb, even if it is the offspring of another. We are ONE. Read the article, “Her Womb” click link here, Her Womb We’re trying to grasp on to a small piece of hope. Trying hard to keep our sanity but the pressure is building…realizing our fate and that no one is coming to the aide of our children.
Watching her children being slaughtered is too much for/on any mother to bear…How can so many witness it happening to Black Mothers and not be moved, to offer real solutions..?
We are overwhelmed and simply tired, of being tired.
I’ve grown weary asking: What kind of “cruel & unusual” punishment is this that America has placed on its Black Mothers?
**I wrote this years ago, (Summer, 2017) for my first “Triddy Kat’s Meow” website. Updated 1/24/23
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