Wild Fonts

You Do Not Love Black Women

You may have heard me say this before.

I’m sure you’ll hear me say it again.

I intend to keep saying it as often and as loudly as necessary until the skies open up and the ancestors send for me, or until I feel a shift in the weight of your words. Yes, you. I’m talking about you and I want you specifically and especially to hear me: the way I see you “loving” Black women do not be moving me.

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_{July 3, 2020}

We Are Failing Black Boys

The dictionary defines coddling as “treat in an indulgent or overprotective way.”

So, to say black boys are being coddled is to say that we are protecting them somehow. Yet black boys/men experience:

• the lowest graduation rates among their peers.
• the highest youth incarceration rates, often for non-violent offenses.
• the highest rates of child abuse resulting in death.
• the highest rates of imprisonment as adults.
• the highest rates of unemployment.
• an alarming number of deaths at the hands of police (in 2018, 191 black people have been shot and killed by police. 184 were men. Of the 15 black individuals considered unarmed – carrying no gun, knives, pipes, toy weapons, or driving a vehicle, 14 were men.)

So what exactly are we protecting them from?

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_{July 12, 2019}