Who Fights for Her?
Dear Wo(men),
I remember the days when I would tell my mother I was afraid to raise a black son. Raising a black son would mean I would be at war 25/8 for I'd be damned if someone tried to kill my baby. Not once did I say I was afraid to raise a daughter.... until now.
Who fights for women?
I have witnessed numbers of people, predominantly black women, go to battle for our black boys. I have seen the impregnated mothers with aching pains in their wombs protesting for the lives of their sons. I have seen a photo of a black mother holding a machete to a police officer's neck while having guns pointed in her direction, all for the life of her son.
But what about women? Who fights for us?
Who fights for the little black girls ripped from their educational institution? Why have we settled for the knowledge of them being sold as sex-slaves or into marriages? Why have we let that become the ending of that war?
Who fights for Sandra Bland? We stopped speaking her name.
And on the topic of names, how can we expect for people to respect our women when our men are referring to us as their b-tches, hoes, thots and tricks. We are not your female dogs. We are not bodies in your personal cemeteries. We are of value. No we are not perfect. Yes you may not approve of some of the things that some women do, but we are still women. You still came from our wombs.
Who fights for us when our own men throw dirt on us... walk over us... disregard us... who fights for the women at war for the men who are to prideful to display genuine love for them?
Don't forget we came from you, out of your rib... we are a partial reflection of you.
We are just like men, flesh and bone, deserving of someone on the battlefield fighting for us. This fight isn't limited to fist. This fight includes words and action.
This fight includes praying for women the way women have always prayed for you. It includes liberating a woman of her demons. It means leading her to God when this world gets to rough and she forgets how to pray, when she falls short of grace and society deems her unworthy.
For the women specifically:
1. Know how to open your mouth stating what you require.
2. Stop fighting for men who won't ever pray for you when they deem themselves incapable of fighting for you.
3. Always remember that God's heart is always in search of another life to save, make yours available.
4. God is always fighting for you.
5. God is always fighting for you.
Six. Seven. Eight. Nine.
10. God is always fighting for you.
Women, you must fight for you. The acceptance of the fate of our Nigerian princesses and silenced reality of our sex trade of young girls on our home turf should be enough to tell you that this world isn't on your side and your army isn't as big as you think it is. But I promise, God's might is strong enough to suffice. He's a one man army who does a great work.
But how good would it be to know that there are men in this world who will never be content with the fate of the women who birthed empires... who are willing to fight for women.
I pray you be that (wo)man.
Strength, survival and salvation to you,
-Brittany K.W.
I remember the days when I would tell my mother I was afraid to raise a black son. Raising a black son would mean I would be at war 25/8 for I'd be damned if someone tried to kill my baby. Not once did I say I was afraid to raise a daughter.... until now.
Who fights for women?
I have witnessed numbers of people, predominantly black women, go to battle for our black boys. I have seen the impregnated mothers with aching pains in their wombs protesting for the lives of their sons. I have seen a photo of a black mother holding a machete to a police officer's neck while having guns pointed in her direction, all for the life of her son.
But what about women? Who fights for us?
Who fights for the little black girls ripped from their educational institution? Why have we settled for the knowledge of them being sold as sex-slaves or into marriages? Why have we let that become the ending of that war?
Who fights for Sandra Bland? We stopped speaking her name.
And on the topic of names, how can we expect for people to respect our women when our men are referring to us as their b-tches, hoes, thots and tricks. We are not your female dogs. We are not bodies in your personal cemeteries. We are of value. No we are not perfect. Yes you may not approve of some of the things that some women do, but we are still women. You still came from our wombs.
Who fights for us when our own men throw dirt on us... walk over us... disregard us... who fights for the women at war for the men who are to prideful to display genuine love for them?
Don't forget we came from you, out of your rib... we are a partial reflection of you.
We are just like men, flesh and bone, deserving of someone on the battlefield fighting for us. This fight isn't limited to fist. This fight includes words and action.
This fight includes praying for women the way women have always prayed for you. It includes liberating a woman of her demons. It means leading her to God when this world gets to rough and she forgets how to pray, when she falls short of grace and society deems her unworthy.
For the women specifically:
1. Know how to open your mouth stating what you require.
2. Stop fighting for men who won't ever pray for you when they deem themselves incapable of fighting for you.
3. Always remember that God's heart is always in search of another life to save, make yours available.
4. God is always fighting for you.
5. God is always fighting for you.
Six. Seven. Eight. Nine.
10. God is always fighting for you.
Women, you must fight for you. The acceptance of the fate of our Nigerian princesses and silenced reality of our sex trade of young girls on our home turf should be enough to tell you that this world isn't on your side and your army isn't as big as you think it is. But I promise, God's might is strong enough to suffice. He's a one man army who does a great work.
But how good would it be to know that there are men in this world who will never be content with the fate of the women who birthed empires... who are willing to fight for women.
I pray you be that (wo)man.
Strength, survival and salvation to you,
-Brittany K.W.
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