Jim Crow taught the world that Black girls and women existed to be used, violated, discarded. It wasn’t just about water fountains and buses. It was a
Jim Crow taught the world that Black girls and women existed to be used, violated, discarded. It wasn’t just about water fountains and buses. It was about making it legal and cultural to deny us safety, privacy, and rest.
Anyone—no matter how “radical” they claim to be—who now says that Black women owe the world our access, our silence, or our sacred spaces, is not breaking from Jim Crow. They are echoing it.
That isn’t progress. That’s oppression dressed in new clothes.
You are NOT on my side or any other Black woman if you use Jim Crow as a justification to strip away our safety.
Like most stories from this time, this story is difficult to watch and here. Please implement self-care.