Protect Us

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alt text By Maxine Brown, Youth and Education Editor, The Real Chi
 
 

 Who can protect us? 

Why do yall neglect us? 

Why are we never enough  

But often described as being too much ? 

Black women protect everyone and everything else 

But when tables turn 

We have nobody to ask for help, but ourselves.

  Our sons hate us 

Our Fathers Give up 

Our brothers throw us under the bus 

The law enforcement system is corrupt.

Cops kill and destroy the Black family  

And we do that enough

So no justice and no peace 

As well as 

Defund the police 

Is what we yell and we scream

But the police are not the only beast in the streets

Doctors don't care enough 

We come in to the ER 

We get Tylenol and not a second look 

Doctors leave thinking they're off the hook and

Black Women to suffer, cause it's not enough info about us in those health books 

The way the system is set up 

All Black women do is get knocked up.

While society envies us. 

They turn our struggles into trends andr

Other races are always envious 

because we turn nothing into something 

No one really cares if a Black woman wins 

We need to change society 

But where do we begin?