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While struggling with the Reality of being a Human
instead of a myth, the Strong Black Woman passed away.

Medical sources say she died of natural causes,
but those who knew her know she died from
being Silent when she should have been
Screaming, Smiling when she should
have been Raging, from being sick
and not wanting anyone to know
because Her Pain might
inconvenience them.

She Died from an overdose of other people
clinging to Her when she
didn't even have
Energy for Herself.

She Died from Loving Men who didn't
Love themselves and could only
offer her a crippled reflection.

She Died from raising Children Alone.

She Died from the Lies her Grandmother
told her Mother and her Mother told
her about Life, Men & Racism.

She Died from being sexually abused as
a child and having to take that Truth
everywhere she went every day of
Her Life, exchanging the
humiliation for guilt
and back again.

She Died from asphyxiation, coughing up
blood from Secrets she kept trying to
burn away instead of allowing
Herself the kind of nervous
breakdown she was
entitled to.

She Died from being Responsible, because
She was the last rung on the ladder and
there was no one under her She
could dump on.

The Strong Black Woman Is Dead.

She Died from being a Mother at 15
and a Grandmother at 30 and an
Ancestor at 45.

She Died from being dragged down and
sat upon by un-evolved Women posing
as Sisters and Friends.

She Died from tolerating Mr. Pitiful,
JUST to have a Man around the house.

She Died from sacrificing Herself for
Everybody and Everything when
what She really wanted to do
was be a Singer, a Dancer,
or some Magnificent other.

She Died from Lies of omission because
She didn't want to bring the
Black Man down.

She Died from Tributes from her counterparts
who should have been matching Her Efforts
instead of showering her with dead words
and empty songs.

She Died from Myths that would not allow
Her to show Weakness without being
chastised by the Lazy and Hazy.

She Died from hiding her Real Feelings
until they became Hard and Bitter
enough to invade Her womb and
breasts like angry tumors.

She Died from always lifting something
from heavy boxes to refrigerators
All By Herself.

The Strong Black Woman Is Dead.

She Died from never being Enough of what
Men Wanted, or being Too much for the
Men She Wanted.

She Died from Being too Black and
Died again for not Being
Black enough.

She Died from being Misinformed about her
Mind, her Body & the extent of her
Royal capabilities.

She Died from knees pressed too close together
because Respect was never part of the
foreplay that was being shoved at Her.

She Died from Loneliness in Birthing rooms
and Aloneness in Abortion centers.

She Died in bathrooms with Her veins busting
open with Self-Hatred and Neglect.

And Sometimes when She Refused to die,
when She just Refused to give in, She
was Killed by the lethal images of
blonde hair, blue eyes, being
rejected by the OJ.'s, the
Quincy's, the Cuba's,
& the Kobe's.

Sometimes, She was stomped to Death by
Racism & Sexism, Executed by Hi-Tech
ignorance while She carried the
Family in her belly, the
Community on her
head, and the
Race on her
back!

The Strong Black Woman Is Dead!

Or Is She?

I KNOW I'M NOT!!

Pass this on to all the Strong Black
Women that you Love, Respect, and Admire!
And the Black Men who care.

I got through email and wanted to share.

what a pity

Thank you so much sis... this truly needed to be sent to a few women in my life who needed to be reminded how STRONG they truly instead of taking the BULLSHITE!!!

I came across this somewhere a couple years ago and loved it so much I still have it in my files. A lot of women need to read this and learn to understand what really makes a strong black woman so they can stop chasing this feminist ideal that's only widening the rift between black men and women, instead of healing it.

This more or less succintly puts the nature of the problem into perspective. More later

I think, however, that the African woman got a sound cutarse, but she is by no means dead. I don't subscribe to that at all. She's way too strong-minded for that.

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Good post

truth...we're not dead...they're still trying to kill us...but when we die...this is why

nice

i need to come back to this thread to really comment but my brain is on strike

good to hear....now some of these black chics can come back to reality and get of their high horses!