You get thrown to the wolves before you are even grown because now you’re seen as competition by the older black women. The parenting turns into survival training while their sons get coddled forever. Nobody teaches you how to date or how to be loved or how to protect your heart. You are just told “don’t get pregnant.” I hate it here sometimes.

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i’m a POC, and 100% agree with you. black women are expected to fix everything (re: 2024 presidential election), yet no one protects y’all. have people even seen the statistics of black women giving birth?! they are 3-4x more likely to die from complications during childbirth and it’s usually linked to healthcare workers being racially biased towards black women. it’s gotta be taxing to know that every system is built against you.

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I’m white but I go to a university that is predominantly POC students, I grew up in a more democratic area because of this also (I like to think). But no you are extremely valid, just recently I had a friend of mine tell me that our professor (40yr old white man) said “I’m intimidated friend #2,” friend 1 is mixed and friend 2 is black, literally an immigrant also. And we came to the conclusion he’s intimidated by black women period because what fuckin kind of comment is that to make about a 20

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Hey girl, I’m a sis from another mother literally standing w you in solidarity.

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As a white woman- I believe you 505059483828383838281%

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i feel so much for my bw siblings ✊🏽😔

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