BLACK GIRLS ROCK!
As a black woman, I would discredit my sistahs if I did not proudly recite this phrase. I've watched the BET airing of their execution of the phrase. I have to admit, the different sizes, colors and confidence that over filled the place of BLACK women did in fact, ROCK! A room full of proud sistahs who come from a lineage of defeat, despair, rape, humiliation and oppressions that in turn resulted to depressions. No this is NOT a pity party for black women.
This blog is to show my gratitude, remember and recognize the black women that work hard in our communities to raise our children, defend our black men in the courtrooms, provide medical services to us and our children, care for our elders, risk their lives on the blocks of Chicago, patrolling the streets. The black women that pour us our cup of coffee or tea that helps start our day at the local cafe. Or what about that black woman that wakes up earlier in the mornings to help volunteer at our children schools to make sure they cross the streets safely, in our absence.
BLACK WOMEN ROCK!!!!
You can't tell me that a mother who stays up all night long with an ailing child and still arrives on time for work, with supernatural strength to carry out the tasks of the day, isn't phenomenal.
If no one else tells you my sistah YOU ROCK!!!
People say I'm a borderline feminist........ I say, call me whatever that defines the human rights for women of all colors! Young or old, I'm proud to scream past the mountaintops that BLACK GIRLS ROCK!!
Something about that phrase ignites my soul and reminds me of the African American tour I experienced, way down in the south of Memphis, TN. We saw on this tour how black mothers made quilts with secret codes to help guide the black men in slavery to FREEDOM, because like them, our black men couldn't read. Black women, hid in tunnels for weeks and days with their husbands and children in tote, just to keep their families together and to escape the rules and sexual violence on the Master's plantation.
BLACK GIRLS ROCK!!!!
Fast forward to today's time when the melodious voices of Jill Scott, Monica, Ledisi, Kelly Price, Marsha Ambrosius, Fantasia and many others paid homage to our past and introduced new meanings of the beauty and strength of black girls and women, today.
Be proud of who you are
Recite to yourself...... BLACK GIRLS ROCK!!!!
1 out of 4 black women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. The more we empower each other, this fact can be extracted, permanently from our statistics.
Continue to embrace who you are as an African American woman or girl (youth) and know that when the world says differently, tell them:
BLACK GIRLS ROCK!!!
I have provided you with a soulful performance clip from the Black Girls Rock that aired on BET below:
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