You can't win for losing. Women being active in fighting police brutality= yet another opportunity to bash Black women. Not a challenge or rallying cry to men to step up. No one is stopping anyone else from taking leadership roles, how could they? I'm sure there are so many men just biting their knuckles waiting for a chance to step in but they're being held back by some sista.
Having been an activist, I've seen this egocentric nonsense before. A good majority of the "building" time is spent talking about what place Black men should have. What they're going to do to Black women, gays, and White people once they're in power/a Black nation is built. It's all intellectual masturbation that absolutely NO ONE is worried about because everyone knows they're not going to do a darn thing but circle jerk each other with those fantasies.
Just as in other cases, these women are in leadership roles that no one wants, and people don't want to face that. If the men and women who go to bat for us stepped back, there wouldn't be
anyone to take their place. There are not a bunch of Fred Hamptons waiting in the wings, I can assure you of that. I know from experience that getting people to show up places, to make a phone call, to send an email, to donate funds is extremely difficult.This is why we have vast resources and knowledge and continue to under-perform and act powerless, people like to sit back and say what other people should be doing but don't actually want to do anything themselves. I've spent time and money on many causes, some of which pretty much predominantly impact Black men, and it's never reciprocated. I've participated in campaigns and written letters to public officials, which in one instance we successfully helped get a Black man taken off death row (not surprisingly, most of the people
so sympathetic to the plight of the unjustly convicted, don't do anything to help people who were wrongfully convicted or given an unfair sentence. They just cape for criminals who truly belong in prison) . There's a darn good chance none of those men would have lifted a finger to help me in a similar situation.
To many brothas, Black people=Black men, only. That's why causes and injustices involving Black women and children are so easily ignored. That's why abandonment is readily excused. How does the Kikongo saying go? "Hold up That Which Holds You Up" I'm done
, I'll just watch the whiners and do-nothings continue sit back and 'supervise' our circling of the drain as a people.
I find it 
when dudes are 
when they find out I'm not a diehard football fan. Like knowing what a 4-3 defense is will make your ass less whippable. Chicks that front like diehard football fans are even more annoying. That shyt comes across so forced. They always single. I don't know 1 chick with a man that acts like that.
Damn ya'll really do hate black women
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eat good from the scraps that fall from other people's plates.
she was just here