Police Brutality Was Never Our Fight

Black women must learn a simple but harsh truth: stay out of men’s business. Confrontations between white men and Black men are exactly that, men’s business. Males are biologically wired to dominate, humiliate, and terrorize each other. This is not something a woman can control, nor should she even try to. Violence occurring between two males should send off a signal in a woman’s brain that tells her to flee, to find safety, and to seek shelter. Most races of women seem to understand this, except for Black women of course. When Black women see violence, especially violence where the death of a Black man has occurred at the hands of the police, she puts her boots on to go out and protest. 

Protesting police brutality has done absolutely nothing to improve or advance the lives of Black women. Black women are now being blamed for businesses being burnt down, soaring crime rates, and relaxed sentences being given to murderous criminals. Black Lives Matter protests have elevated Black male criminals to a protected sacrosanct status, allowing them to commit crimes all over the country with no fear of repercussion. Black women are being blamed for the results of a movement that sought to address a problem that was not even affecting us en masse in the first place. As a result of the 2020 protests, the police, the only protection Black women had against violent criminals who seek to harm us and our children, have given up on our neighborhoods and told us to fend for ourselves. 

So, what issues should Black women focus on you ask? For starters, we have the highest maternal mortality rate in the United States. Paired with our declining mental health, low fitness levels, and horrible domestic violence statistics, I think Black women could find more useful things to do with their time than march along gang infested inner-city streets to protest for a random criminal they do not know. However, notice how none of these things concern Black men nor cater to their needs in any way. That is the point. I want Black women to stop thinking it is their job to save Black men. We live in a Patriarchy. It is not a woman’s job to be saving the life of any man. Black women need to reconnect with their femaleness. Females understand that they and their children come first and that males must be left behind if they put a female and her child in danger. 

Perhaps I will start caring about police brutality when Black men condemn rap music for promoting and exporting hate speech about my demographic globally. I might consider protesting when Black men uplift the image of darkskin Black women into mainstream media. I will think about donating to local BLM organizations when I see them address issues other than police brutality involving violent criminals, but until then, when I see a white male police officer strangling a Black man on the pavement, I will walk on by and continue to mind my Black womanly business. I am a woman first, and my female instinct for self-preservation is what I will be prioritizing.