The same men who preach SUBMISSION all day long are also some of the same men who want to beat black women’s asses. So are we gonna be honest, or do I have to be the bad guy once again and say what we not willing to admit to.
Plenty of those traditional black women who “submitted” back in the day were getting their asses beaten by our grandfathers, getting children molested, getting cheated on, and those women who “SUBMITTED” just took it. Didn’t say a word. Hell even Dave Chappelle talked about blk women keeping these secrets.
So please miss me with the whole “if u want protection, u gotta submit” when you still holding a dikk wall of silence and are unwilling to call out the dudes in our culture who DO fukk up ur women, all while talking about blk female accountability when many have none for themselves. Women in traditional submissive relationships worldwide get their asses beat. In fact, some of these SUBMIT stooges feel like it’s their right. So already you fukked up with that mentality. Try again.
As for black women, this is going to hurt to acknowledge, but we have NEVER been protected in this country. Not when we were stripped naked and sold on an auction block, not when our children were ripped away from us and used as gator bait, not when we were raped and beaten like men, not when our husbands were lynched and we were hanging from trees.
Our image has never been protected, even as we see some blk men themselves join in to call other races of women submissive and glorify a version of femininity that black women aren’t afforded an opportunity to display. A white woman can fukk a dog, call for a black man to be lynched, be a whore and a porn star, and many in the world including some of our men will STILL pull out a cape in her PAWG defense, but get disgusted at a blk female rocking a weave, even as she feeds him, keeps him from being homeless, raised him when his father went to the store for some cigarettes and takes care of him in his old age.
Our motherhood isn’t protected, as we are experimented on, left alone to die on the childbirth table 3 times more than non-black women. Our bodies and young black girls aren’t protected. Thanks R. Kelly and those who are more willing to call a young girl fast instead of calling out grown ass men who go to the hood to hunt underage girls (And boys) like they trolling for impoverished people to exploit in 3rd world countries.
Smash and dash and pimp culture being glorified in our communities means ZERO accountability for men many who start grooming desperate poor black girls at early ages, while blaming black women for everything. And the worse part is, if black women complain or even say anything, it’s taken as black male hate or bashing.
But guess what? Black men aren’t protected either. Protection and safety comes only exists for whites within white supremacy b/c they are the apex predators of the world.
Saying black women aren’t protected isn’t an indictment of all black men. It’s just a statement of fact when you are racially the farthest from those who represent the pinnacle of power: a white man. Black women get fukked over by white supremacy and some black men and by Black women themselves as much as we don’t want to admit it. And some Black women don’t protect themselves.
So instead of getting emotional about this, just be honest. None of these realities are good black men and black women’s faults. Black men aren’t protected either and some of black women’s behaviors compound their vulnerability if we being REALLY real.
To combat these issues, more blk men risking their lives isn’t the answer, b/c many already do. When I tell black women that they have to learn to protect themselves, that’s not throwing shade at black men. That’s telling people who are physically vulnerable to start putting themselves first. Vet the hell out of men in your circle. Fukk their feelings. Assert yourself. Damn the angry Black woman trope. Don’t have ANYBODY’s babies if they don’t love and cherish you. I don’t care if birthrates drop to the negatives. If they threaten your life, shoot to kill. Get your money up. Stop housing male parasites. Kick him out of your house and off your crib. Stop bringing strangers around your children and crying when they get sexually abused. Stop operating in a deficit mindset when it comes to men and accepting anything b/c you think nobody will want you.
Also protection goes both ways. Black men need your protection too. Keep yourself out of fukked up situations so a black man won’t have to risk his life trying save you from a situation you put urself in. Help keep him out of trouble too.
All of that has to be done by Black women themselves. As for black men protecting Black women, the best way to do this is to stop trying to justify the fukked up shyt some blk men do to black women just b:c you trying to keep a dikk code of silence. Stop thinking shyt sweet with these gangbanger rappers who treated Black women like shyt back in the day just b/c you resonated with their music. Stop trying to adopt alt-right misogyny b/c you not getting the p*ssy you feel like you deserve. Stop putting non-blk women on a pedestal. And if you aren’t guilty of doing any of this, stop getting in the way of accountability for those who are just b/c you don’t want to admit to the fukked up shyt your gender does.

We can do better. But not if we keep lying to ourselves about our flaws.