Why wouldn’t she be angry?
When she has endured the horrors of slavery and colonisation.
Why wouldn’t she be angry?
When her identity, her family, tradition and culture has been torn apart.
Why wouldn’t she be angry?
When her babies were sold, and her man was beaten to an inch of his life.
Why wouldn’t she be angry?
When she was raped and bred like cattle.
Why wouldn’t she be angry?
When she was used as an experiment with no pain killers.
Apparently, she didn’t and doesn’t feel any pain.
Why wouldn’t she be angry?
When she has been hypersexualised, appropriated but never appreciated.
Why wouldn’t she be angry?
When she lives in perpetual fear for her male child, praying he would make it home alive
Instead of dead or incarcerated.
Why wouldn’t she be angry?
For decades, she has been told she’s not good enough, not pretty enough & not smart enough.
Why wouldn’t she be angry?
When every waking day she has to think about how to present herself to the world so that others may feel comfortable with her presence in order to gain access to certain spaces.
Why wouldn’t she be angry?
When she has to work twice as hard for half as much.
Why wouldn’t she be angry?
When in the name of gender equality, she is still the minority in senior roles across most organisations.
Why wouldn’t she be angry?
When she has suffered medical apartheid and has the highest infant mortality rate to this day.
Why wouldn’t she be angry?
When she has been weighed down by the burden placed on her to sustain her family due to the mass incarceration of the black man.
Why wouldn’t she be angry?
When black boys are killed, Emmett Till, and life sentences are dished out like candy to young black men Ronnie Long, for crimes they did not commit.
Why wouldn’t she be angry?
Seems like the most appropriate question.