My Mother is a Black Woman

The thousands and thousands of lives and the innumerable amount of years they snatched away from African Americans are regrettably lost and only to be remembered by old family stories and blurry pictures. The many days and nights of hunger and suffering, longing and desperation, even questions with no answers swirled into the atmosphere like a tornado and filled our lungs with its powerful corrupted air. In the past, many cultures meshed into cramped spaces and some exerted their dominance over others with harsh words and even harsher physical assaults. Families have been ripped apart and stitched back together haphazardly like reconstructed science projects. This country was built on these abominable facts and MORE. Do you know who kept us ALL nurtured, healthy, and hopeful through all that pain? Some may say that the current President of the United Stated States is the epitome of a problem we labeled white extremism in this country. The overall ideology is rooted in the staunch belief of one race’s superiority over another (or others). They possess a total disdain for the lives of other races and in many cases even assist in the facilitation of their extinction. Donald Trump has exhibited this type of behavior and more on many occasions. The latest Trump story in the news is about a phone call that was made to Mrs. Myeisha Johnson. In a still currently unexplained series of events, her husband Army Sgt. La David Johnson was killed in Niger and inexplicably left behind for two days before his body was recovered. Mr. Trump called his wife, and under his positive account of the phone call, expressed his sincere condolences then ended the conversation. But, it seems that the conversation was overhead and that’s not quite all that happened. I won’t go into too much detail with this article, but you can find the link below to one that will bring you up to speed. It seems that the President wasn’t as compassionate as he made it sound on the phone call. The conversation was overheard by a Rep. Fredrica Wilson (D-Fla) who thought the words he used were inappropriate. So instead of apologizing for the misunderstanding he went further and insulted Rep. Wilson. He had officially offended two black women in less than a week. One, a grieving widow with still no understanding of her husband’s death and the other a highly respected Representative from Florida with a healthy POSITIVE track record in her constituency. The white house also gained criticism for suggesting the firing of ESPN’s black female anchor Jamele Hill. Former National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile have also found themselves on the receiving end of Trump's criticism in ways that some have a belief, are different than his hits on those who are not black women. Some say the treatment and insensitivity of black women are deeply rooted in white supremacy and predominately in fragile white male ego. Why? For centuries black women have nourished the land and people of this country. The great-great-grandfathers of the same men who are in power now were breastfed from black mothers. Their contributions to the shaping of this country have been uncovered for decades and cannot be buried again. They deserve admiration and RESPECT. They fed us, and sang to us, and made us healthy when we were sick. They taught us and LOVED us. ALL of us.