When Race and Gender exhausts you
There are moments when being a woman and being Black can make you want curl up in the corner and yell, "I surrender!" or "I give the f***k up!" These moments can come when you walk into Home Depot in the suburbs and are followed as if you are going to run off with the ceramic tile or when you watch the news to see one more Black church burned to the ground or one more Black woman arrested and sent home in a body bag because of an alleged suicide. When Serena Williams wins yet another victory and her body is vilified in the mainstream media. Or you read a book about welfare and Black women from the 1950s and realize quickly how much it looks and sounds like 2015. The stigma that follows me on social media when articles are written about failed Black relationships and every Black man and every Black woman starts pointing fingers. Let us be real. If there were so many successful Black relationships to point to then statistically, I would be witness to at least 1 out ...