How Long Have We Been Telling Y’all to Listen to Black Women? By Deiona Monroe
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We’ve been making sense and making it happen for quite some time, and yet still gotta bring dynamite to get the door crack. Before the word history was even given its definition, Black women have been putting the world on their backs and cleaning up the messes that most couldn’t even imagine. We’ve been fighting battles of being ignored for our skin and gender--can you imagine being put in a room in which you have to defend both?
And this milestone is named Kamala C. Harris. This is the name of the: First Black First Asian First Woman…
To be elected as the vice president of the United States. And with as white-washed as American politics have been and some try to continue for Black women have dealt with SO much, yet, time it to be, my Lord it feels good to see the color and time again, we outdo ourselves. We have palette change. It was getting VERY tiring--and adapted the notion of being a Black woman even more annoying--to see just one tone dictate means you can handle any dirt thrown at you, over an endlessly colorful nation. so people serve you with the filthiest things they can find notion so heavily, I don’t believe This Oakland, CA borden history maker made there’s any milestone we can’t surpass. it her mission to infiltrate the system and reach heights that women of color have never seen THE SQUEEZE
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