I was at this event talking for Black Maternal Health Week and this amazing law professor and author from Georgetown started talking about how raping Black women became a pillar of the American economy because it was a “free” way to expand your wealth during slavery and…
… how a lot of documents about how it affected the descendants of the rape victims are being erased and how 8-year olds were jumping off of roofs to commit suicide rather than be the living proof of their families pain and…
… how much strength it took to raise and love and instill pride in a baby that was the product of your rape and how much strength it took to feel pride and self love being a product of such evilness and violence and pain…
… and I thought of the topics on this app over the last few days and got so frustrated bc we just aren’t far enough removed from the terror we have had to face to be tearing each other down and stripping each other of identity when we only recently obtained the luxury of choice
In case this leaves my neighborhood. I wasn’t a speaker at this event, that was a typo from multiple rewordings Tysm. Be kind 🤍
Muting for now but I’ll be back to answer Qs and comments in a few hours. Feel free to DM. I’ll be posting more resources and info about Black Maternal Health Week on @healthgeenie You can follow me on IG for wellness, health law, and lifestyle content: Instagram.com/healthgeenie
@Jani__Gee I think about this often.
@Jani__Gee This is an accurate account of the most underreported dimension of slavery. A few years back someone did a DNA crossectional study which demonstrated that the levels of European DNA in most Black people could not be explained by natural population growth patterns. 👏🏿 for sharing