Black Women Have Been Warning You: Fascism Has Always Seen Us as the First to Silence

Black women don’t need a textbook to recognize fascism on this planet.
We’ve felt it creeping under the door, showing up in church bulletins, classrooms, courtrooms, and dinner tables.
We’ve survived it wearing Sunday hats and baby carriers.
And we’ve warned you. Over and over.

Because when fascism comes, it doesn’t start with the marching boots.
It starts with the silencing.
The suspicion.
The scapegoating.
And Black women—especially those of us who are poor, disabled, of faith, raising children, creators, educators, healers, or standing at the intersection of it all—are always among the first to be targeted.

Here’s how the connection works:

⚠️ 1. Fascism Relies on a Purity Myth

It paints a picture of an ideal society—one that’s pure, obedient, and usually centered on whiteness, maleness, wealth, or nationalism.
Black women disrupt that fantasy just by existing.
We are mothers of multiracial children. Caregivers. Truth-tellers. Global citizens. Faith leaders. Legacy builders.
And so we get labeled as too loud, too different, too “unruly” to belong.

📣 2. Fascism Fears Difference—Because It Can’t Control It

Fascism doesn’t hate difference because it’s different.
It hates it because it can’t dominate it.
Black women bring language, rhythm, style, thought, worship, resistance, invention, and brilliance that doesn’t fit the mold—and that makes us dangerous to fascism.
So they try to police it, punish it, erase it.

🧠 3. Fascism Uses Scapegoats to Unite the Majority

When a society is struggling, fascists give it someone to blame.

 Single mothers. Disabled people. Black historians. Poor people. Minority women.

People maintaining building tools, natural healing, truth, connection, resources, autonomy, access, and rights. All at once. 

People who’ve already survived more than most.
Suddenly we’re the reason for decline.
But really, we’re just easy to target—because we’ve been targeted before.

And before that. 

🪞 4. Fascism Wants Uniformity, Not Unity

Black women know the difference.
We’ve built communities where people didn’t need to be the same to be safe.
But fascism wants sameness.
Same language. Same hair. Same marriage. Same God. Same silence.
It punishes difference and calls it “order.”
It demands obedience and calls it “respect.”

📚 5. Resistance to Diversity Is the Gateway Drug

It starts off polite:

• “Too much inclusion.”

• “They’re forcing diversity.”

• “Let’s go back to basics.”

Then comes:

• Book bans against the books speaking truth, not vulgarity.

• History whiteouts against facts and truth.

• Muzzling teachers, but only the ones based in reality and speaking truth.

• Weaponizing the beliefs of certain faiths without making attempts for common ground.

By the time it’s called fascism, it’s already here.

🔥 In Short:

Fascism and diversity cannot coexist.
Fascism demands control.
Diversity demands freedom.

So when you hear talk about “restoring order,”
when you see folks fighting inclusion,
when truth starts getting punished—
don’t just scroll past.

We see you. We always see you.
We see the moment fear finally touches your doorstep—
because that’s the only time you start to listen.
But some of us? We’ve been living at that doorstep.
We are the alarm.

So listen now.
Not later.

Black women have been warning you.
Because fascism doesn’t knock.
It builds, quietly, while the rest of the world is distracted.

And if you ignore us now?

You might find yourself next in line, wondering where the resistance went.