How dare you make laws and policies that make our girls less safe!-Tonya GJ Prince Every year, thousands of Black girls go missing in the United Stat
How dare you make laws and policies that make our girls less safe!-Tonya GJ Prince
Every year, thousands of Black girls go missing in the United States. Their faces barely make the news. Their stories don’t trend. Their families are left to organize their own search efforts, to scream into the void, to hope someone with power and a platform will care.
Meanwhile, entire systems have been built to accommodate boys and men who identify as something else by powerful politicians. Entire departments, funding streams, and policy shifts are mobilized in their nameâbecause they are seen. Because their pain, their demands, their stories are heard and validated.
But what about our daughters?
Where are the specialized programs, funding, and national outcries for the Black girls who disappear?
Where are the tailored protections for them when they are trafficked, groomed, or preyed upon?
Who is being “inclusive” of Black girls?
Who is assuring that Black girls have much needed safe spaces?
I despise with all my heart that Black girls are being asked to accommodate males in their spaces under the false guise of “kindness”.
It is not kind to teach girls not to guard their hearts, their minds, and their bodies with all that they have within them.
It is not kind to teach girls to lower their guard around any male regardless of how he chooses to view himself.
Why must Black girls become hashtagsâif theyâre luckyâbefore anyone looks in their direction?
We canât ignore that in a world obsessed with “inclusion,” Black girls are still excluded from basic humanity.
We see them. We honor them. And we will continue to speak up for them because they are valuable human beings worthy of protection.
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