I like to also think that I'm an extension of the Black Woman too.
There's too much animosity and people airing out negativity from both sides and it is hurting us both. We need to understand that we are a our strongest together.
We are not all the same, we do not have a typical mold and we all need to get that concept and celebrate one another no matter our shortcomings and balance each other out.
The putting down of one another (on social media) and uplifting/celebrating at times #TeamSwirl saddens me as people go out of their way (and at times they lose who they are as a person) to put down images of people would have been there and helped them along the way and at times do this as a way of acting out their pain in retaliation as to rather talk among each other to find their inner healing.
It is frustrating all this airing out on Social media to feed egos (internal and external) and give the inside and outside world negative perception of us as Black men and Women. We should not be looking and putting each other down in such a toxic way and people do not nor will they hold responsibility for how their actions/agendas impact others. And at times this pain we carry is not ours but the pain of others (Influences) while thinking it is ours with little time to ask ourselves, "is this really who I am?"
It is sad because I feel some of us out there really do not understand how great of a people we are (that is why we are feared/people feel intimidated by us). We go beyond the States, Europe, Africa and South America (Yes in my opinion we are black there too. I know some folks on here say otherwise but I am not one of those) and we even stretch out to the pacific island and Australia. Yes we are different shades and share different experiences and pains but we are still of the same blood historically, different journeys, but still the same beginning.
And if anything I do in my words or actions can help uplift a Black Woman's day, then I have done my service as a Black Man.
when they came around our house, had a youngin like
'ooh, you're nephew is so cute'
nothing ever happened though.
dye gon overlook this one tho
