Nappy Headed Black Child

Queen Latifah Reveals Past Sexual Abuse in July 2009 Issue of ESSENCE

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"There is, however, one personal experience that she's now willing to share, one that she had kept to herself for years. For a short period of time when she was a child, Latifah was the victim of sexual abuse at the hands of a teenager charged with her care. "He violated me," she says of the abuser. "I never told anybody; I just buried it as deeply as I could and kept people at an arm's distance. I never really let a person get too close to me."

"What happens in the family stays in the family"

"Stop Snitchin"

"Mind Your Business"

We have built a whole culture around seeing something you know is wrong and remaining silent. Drugs pollute your neighborhood, abuse in the family, depression, illnesses. all of these obvious but ignored.

Because of Fear. alot of us are afraid of the stigma to be labeled sick, alot of us are are afraid to ask for help, alot of us are so used to having to be strong we just learn to live with the pain and for get what help is,

Becasue we just dont care. Then there are those of us who could help and do nothing.

/end rant

To delve in to this further read this its a great book