Recently in the news, we heard about Shanesha Taylor who is a native of Arizona that was arrested for leaving her children in the car while conducting an interview for a job.  She is also homeless.  Blogs went on to call her a “no good mother” and a “typical black woman.”  However, what America is not seeing is a Black woman who has been subjugated and oppressed by the white male patriarchal standards that are forced upon her.  Don’t see how? Let us break it down…

In America, the Black woman’s reality of oppression is by design.  The daily psychological mutilation, the violence of rape and forced breeding, rearing the oppressor’s children, and performing menial and degrading work constitutes the foundation set for Black women here in this “land of the free.”  Still, centuries later, Black women continue to endure attacks on the very legitimacy of her existence.  When we begin to talk about the “cult of true womanhood” the black woman does not fit into this description.  This is because the black woman is forced to be alone because her black man is either killed or serving time in the neo-slavery system “they” like to call jail.  This leaves the black woman, just as it has always done since the days they use to see their men lynched, alone and having to care for her children herself.  She is forced to do things that white women will typically not have to do to provide for her children.  This leaves the white woman being a “true” representation of womanhood, while leaving the black woman where she has always been—a mule that has to plow her way for survival in the world.  Then while she is “plowing,” she has to be called a “typical black woman” because she left her kids in the car while trying to get a job to put a roof over their heads and feed them. America how can you hate black women for being what you made them? What did you make her you ask? You made her a survivor; you made her a womanhood who has to depend on no one but herself, after all, she can’t even depend on you! So instead of locking this sister up and charging her with a felony, how about you give her a job, an education, a roof for her and her children, and a break, but doing such things would mess up your design. You see once she is locked up, you then get to put her children in foster care and start another cycle and generation of blacks who are “typical.”  Oh America, why do you hate Black women?

Recently in the news, we heard about Shanesha Taylor who is a native of Arizona that was arrested for leaving her children in the car while conducting an interview for a job.  She is also homeless.  Blogs went on to call her a “no good mother” and a “typical black woman.”  However, what America is not seeing is a Black woman who has been subjugated and oppressed by the white male patriarchal standards that are forced upon her.  Don’t see how? Let us break it down…

In America, the Black woman’s reality of oppression is by design.  The daily psychological mutilation, the violence of rape and forced breeding, rearing the oppressor’s children, and performing menial and degrading work constitutes the foundation set for Black women here in this “land of the free.”  Still, centuries later, Black women continue to endure attacks on the very legitimacy of her existence.  When we begin to talk about the “cult of true womanhood” the black woman does not fit into this description.  This is because the black woman is forced to be alone because her black man is either killed or serving time in the neo-slavery system “they” like to call jail.  This leaves the black woman, just as it has always done since the days they use to see their men lynched, alone and having to care for her children herself.  She is forced to do things that white women will typically not have to do to provide for her children.  This leaves the white woman being a “true” representation of womanhood, while leaving the black woman where she has always been—a mule that has to plow her way for survival in the world.  Then while she is “plowing,” she has to be called a “typical black woman” because she left her kids in the car while trying to get a job to put a roof over their heads and feed them. America how can you hate black women for being what you made them? What did you make her you ask? You made her a survivor; you made her a womanhood who has to depend on no one but herself, after all, she can’t even depend on you! So instead of locking this sister up and charging her with a felony, how about you give her a job, an education, a roof for her and her children, and a break, but doing such things would mess up your design. You see once she is locked up, you then get to put her children in foster care and start another cycle and generation of blacks who are “typical.”  Oh America, why do you hate Black women?