Please keep boosting this, free knowledge is so important people.

For example Frederick Douglas’ wife did so much for his ungrateful ass. She helped him get on his feet, gave him her last name, and supported him financially and took care of house and home. And in return was does this nigga do? He lets white abolitionists tear her down and treat her like a slave in HER HOUSE. Moved two bitches into HER HOUSE over a span of 20 years. Belittles her for being illiterate while using HER MONEY. Not even in death does she get the respect she deserves. His last wife is more recognized as being apart of his life than she was. Just trash. And y'all still normalize that shit as if it’s a black woman’s job to struggle. Fuck that.

^^^^ history left her out of his story too. Claiming his parents have him money to start up when it was her.

Don’t forget MLK and Malcolm X

My heart broke a little but I’m not surprised. What did Malcolm do ?

I don’t know about Malcolm X, but I know that Martin Luther King was in love with a white caferteria lady name Betty that he was seeing while he was attending college. The only reason why he married Coretta and not the cafeteria worker is because his dad frowned upon it. Not only that but his best friend Ralph Abernathy and Jackie Onassis exposed him for being a sex craved phony that loved cheating on Coretta. I guarantee that if black women from the civil rights era could talk now, our heads would explode. 

Let’s not forget Black Panther’s leader Eldridge Cleaver and his famous book “Soul On Ice” where he recounts how he practiced raping black women because he knew no one would care and when he “mastered his craft” he starting raping white women. Also let’s never forget that he said that there is no more love left between black women and men and that everytime he embraces a black woman, he embraces slavery. Y’all gon’ get this history lesson today!

Wow… and somehow I’m not even surprised.

I knew all of that. Martin was constantly cheating with white prostitutes even a German exchange student while protesting civil right. Cleaver was the worst. Preying on and raping young black girls in the hood as practice for raping white women. Claudette is still referenced as “the other rosa parks” when the light bright brigade “NAACP” weren’t gonna let her share her story to begin with.

Let this post never die. Black women were NEVER respected back in the day, and we’re STILL getting disrespected every minute.

Wow….

[reasons why I think most Black dudes r performative when it comes to being *proBlack* n only know how to mirror yt ally theater/chase yt validation. n nonBlack ppl better back the fuck off this post and start combatting the antiBlackness before they even think of comment.]

Just a reminder that Claudette Colvin didn’t get pregnant until 3 months after refusing her seat on the bus. She was a poor dark skinned girl. In her words “they wanted someone PEOPLE would sympathize with and I didn’t look like that.” Colorism AND Classism waaaay before Instagram 🙂

That white woman ain’t got nothing to do with this. We’re talking about black women’s treatment here.

How dare you bring Patricia Arquettes white feminist ass on a post about the treatment of Black Women

unfortunately there are no known or publicly available pictures of Regina Davis or Kathleen Smith

Thank God for Black women. As Black men, we need to do better. We must respect our women’s role in the resistance and revere them for everything they have and continue to do.

I second @blaquerenaissance

Honestly @blaquerenaissance respect and reverence is nice but what we need is for Black men who do care about Black women to challenge the ones who don’t so that something like this thread never happens again. For every Black man who thought it was socially acceptable to treat Black women like dogs, I promise you there were at least 3 other Black men who stood by and did nothing, said nothing, or encouraged them. Respect and reverence from 25% of y'all isn’t going to do anything if the other 75% still think Black Women are toys that they can discard when we are no longer useful to them. And since we know that Black men as a whole don’t listen when Black women are talking, it’s up to Black men to speak up when they see something

I am so sick of coming on social media seeing some of these so-called negro conscious women who hate African men continue to use less than 10% of the populations as an excuse to make a blanket statement about all African men they act just like white women with their generalities we have enough to be fighting against that you should not be using your Consciousness to be fighting in the house. As long as you are not dating outside of your race don’t worry about other people period every one of these b****** probably don’t even have a man. I am just so thankful for the true conscious sisters who have no time for this petty feminists s*** they sent us in the sixties that these negro Christian girls are still falling for in 2018. This one sister in Hollywood years ago use the example of two or three men in Hollywood when she had a whole country to pick from but she chose a white man and the reason she did that is because of some high yellow n**** Harry Belafonte

Honestly this why I didnt support that Nat Turner movie or the guy who made it. You cant claim to want black rights if you plan screw over black women to get it.

the nonsense bein’ made in these posts is why i hate feminists.K

These are all facts you brainless morron

He hates feminists because of past facts?  Ok then.

He hate blk feminism for pointing out facts abt these men that r suppose to b held n high asteem

I am still reading this post. Damn

This thread! 🔥🔥🔥

The messed up part is this is from his “rise to greatness story” but as you can tell from his actions and this excerpt that sick monster still lingers inside him.

Toni Morrison always talks about how she started writing books during this period when black men were writing screw-the-white-man books and how they were, in a way, obsessed with the white gaze. They were actually craving for this gaze. I remember during the discussion with Junot Diaz where she said about Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man - “invisible to whom? not to me.” And there is something about that…like I admire her because she seems to believe deeply, in a way that is so natural, that her gaze is more important than any other gaze (esp. white, patriarchal). Not to me, like I see you and it’s enough and it shouldn’t matter that other can see you. Others whose gaze has been deemed more significant, more concrete than mine and yours. And I’ve been thinking about it in terms of my writings lately. I write a lot about black women, about me (both being dense and immense subjects to write about.) Most of my writing about black women can be reduced to “no one cares about black women” “here are the many ways black women are invisible and erased.” I write a lot the global lack of curiosity people have about black women. By people I talk about non black women and maybe I shouldn’t care about it. Maybe I shouldn’t care about other people not caring about me, maybe I should feel like my own curiosity for myself is enough even if it feels lonely. And it’s true that black women interest, curiosity and concern for themselves and other black women is enough. It’s enough and it’s a lot. It links us to the rest of the world. I shouldn’t denigrate it, and I mostly don’t. I’ve always felt and thought that validation and affirmation from other black women were the most important things. But anyway I and we shouldn’t denigrate it, it’s enough. The gaze and the curiosity of a black woman for you is important and it makes you exist fully in the world. The gaze of a black woman is a restructuring force, gathers all the fragmented parts of your self and put them in order. It’s enough. 

The gaze of a black woman is a restructuring force…

never thought of it this way

sometimes…… when you keep testing people to see if they will leave…. they will leave…… sometimes… people will leave you… because you’re a bad person…. sometimes people will leave for no reason…. sometimes people will leave because you expect too much from them… sometimes you might need to acknowledge… that friends aren’t your therapist… and did not go through 12 years of training to handle your meltdowns… and you need to find a way to reasonably communicate when you’re feeling unwell if you really like this person, trust this person, and want them to stay around you… having a fear of abandonment cannot be something you tell them to lock them into your orbit.. you need to take responsibility for the things you say & how you treat people… its that simple