Let them see you’re bothered, until they see your burden
The treatment of Black people is at the center of the desktop windows combination above.
Accounts of apartheid labor conditions at SAPREF (Royal Dutch Shell South Africa’s facilities) accompany a poem enabling Black Women to get rid of the “anger” imposed on them. With it come the word’s etymology, and an excerpt from Claudia Jones’ “An end to the neglect of the problems of the Negro woman!“.
Anger seems to be rooted in grief, i.e. a deep need to accept a disturbing fact or situation. Thus grief, once acknowledged, can become a form of awareness. That said when it comes down to interpreting anger, many are unable to see its underlying awareness.
So let me ask, if not because “we” learned to bully anyone looking to break free, why is aware anger, for you, so triggering?
Why expect human beings whose offsprings are bound to grow tough and ready for a violent reality to settle to this calmly?
In a globally messy society so jolly in acting like children’s life is a gift,
that won’t be weary of leaving the young ones whose skin isn’t that “fair” suffer and internalize despair,
black women usually have to be prepared, aware.
How long will it be tolerable to ask Aware Black Women to let class warfare blur their daily gendered and colored struggle?
Can we instead participate and alleviate this burden?
Decentering our western selves and listen while Aware Black Women want us to learn, in spite of a secular burn?
How can we still dismiss Anger today?
We said and will say it: Black Women never stop.
- It is too usual that their -assigned- male counterparts are closely monitored and isolated -really meaning incarcerated- when not stripped from their existence, like you would an element to update or overrule in a system.
- For Black Women, destroying the glass ceiling can be so bittersweet, as it can easily mean: “bye dears/sisters, let me walk on you and (seem to) be individually free”.
Until we sit and untangle the intersectional vines sewed for a system serving those deemed powerful,
Until there is
- acceptance,
- care,
- reflexions on solutions to
support the Aware Black Women at the receiving end of induced painful legacies (leading to Anger):
Aware Black Women, please keep on expressing Our* Anger, stay unafraid.
* This anger is a shared pain, since no one is free until we are all, free.
Le poids de ton humeur n’est rien, comparé à ta douleur
