Nappy Headed Black Child

We have failed to protect and love our women. We have failed to honor and heed our elders. We have failed to teach our sons and cherish our daughters...

instead

We have exploited our women. We have brushed the wisdom of our elders aside. We have throw our sons to the wolves and ignored our daughters.

how do i know











because images like these are common place, dont offend anyone, or are excused via well they made that choice, its none of my business.

But i know that if my mother or my birth sisters Tani and Ryce were posed or behaved in such a way...i would feel as though i had failed in my duty to protect them form being exploited sexualized and being reduced from their positions as queens.

My brothers we are protectors that have refused to protect and our women. Our backbones are now suffering and whats worse is that we willingly support it. We give our money to the lingere/shortShorts/actlikeawhoretogetaman parties, we request the misogynistic music, watch the videos, hit up the strip clubs, and support the idea that a woman has to be a willing participant to the misogyny in order to gain a man's attention.

And then we complain about an inability to find a good black women

Michael Eric Dyson made the following statement- Men have such a hard time in relationships because they are so occupied with how they are going to trick the next ho they never stop to think about what a good woman is. Good women have always been there we have just been to busy trying to trick them out to see it.

Brothers we exploit our own women. We treat them as objects and when tired or annoyed by them we send them away and start plotting on the next one. We help our friends exploit our women. We take pride in being Pimps and Macks, men who sell our women.

Brothers our women are our reflections. They are our the first teachers of our seed. They are future or current Wives, Mothers, Grandmothers, sisters, and daughters and they are attempting to nurse and care for the wounds they received at our hands their protectors.

The women who cant soften, the women who suspect a compliment, the women that suspect a good man, the women that have given up were all responsibilities of Us as protectors and we failed them.

and to make it worse all of this in a racist oppressive country that our ready strives to snatch Queendom from our sisters because they do not reflect the perverted eurocentric standard. The same country that hypersexualizes their features, denigrates their beauty, and attempts to crush their spirit. And their secret weapon is Us. Black Men who wont protect all of their sisters.

I know our sisters have problems too. I know they are not helpless. But the fact is that i am not a woman so that is not my story to tell. I am a Man that comes from a generation that has not fulfilled its duty and as we are all interconnected our failure to be protectors and guardians is blame for much of the pain, sadness, and agony in our Sisters and we must take responsibility.

I dont intend to make myself seem different. I myself am guilty of every accusation i have levied against my brothers. It did not start w/ me but I intend to make it end w/ me.

I promise I will be a protector again. I promise I will protect all of my sisters. I Promise I will not let my sisters be exploited. I Promise I will collect the heads of all of those that attempt to do so. I Promise will not support those that exploit my sisters. I Promise I will will not turn a blind eye to a friend exploiting my sister.

I hope every man that reads this takes that pledge w/ me and decides to be protectors along with me.

/endrant