What’s up Girl,
I gotta be straight up with you. This Letter is going to be so blunt, you’re going to assume I’m crazy, even radical. All I ask of you is to not let me lose you on this one. Open your mind, and your heart. Because I have every right to be crazy and radical. I’m not gonna sit here and spit out facts and statistics to you in order to validate my point. Most of you understand America’s systematic agenda to kill us, and I wrote enough argumentative essays for this year. With that being said Queen, I know exactly how we all feel. We’re tired of being tired. So what do you when you wipe the sweat off your forehead after doing your performance of Beyoncé’s “Freedom”? What do you do after you run out of creative ways to spit “stop killing us” at local poetry slams? The March was yesterday. Everyone stopped posting #JusticeFor(insert one of a million names here) weeks ago. It wasn’t trendy anymore. Fate is unlucky again, and someone you may or may not know gets killed tomorrow. And the next day, and the next day. What are you gonna do about it? Act. The Civilian Black Woman Blueprint To End The War on Systematic Racism 1. Be The Loud Angry Black Woman : Be so damn loud at all the right people until they hear you. The first and easiest step is to harass your state government and influence who is in charge of your state by voting in local elections. It is imperative you educate yourself on who your state governor and senator is. Becoming aware of how your state government works and how to contact them is crucial. It is your opinion that puts these people in office that have the access to law enforcement changes, if you want people for your safety and have your best interests, be the loudest angry black woman at your local elections. Engagement with your local representatives bringing up the needed conversations is key. •Discuss the current policies at the police departments in your state. •The technique Derek Chauvin used to restrain George Floyd to the ground which Derek did to ultimately kill George is nowhere in police training or taught in police departments. So what is being trained in your local police departments and academies? • Derek Chauvin’s background contained 12 prior incident reports while he was employed as a police officer in Minneapolis. George Floyd is the 13th known incident and the first time mass attention and consequence has been brought. Are your local police departments’ policies for employee termination clear and absolutely no tolerance for abuse of power? What precautions are being taken to hire the right people for law enforcement? Does your state require background checks when going through the police academy? Be the Loud Angry Black women at your local board meetings. Harass everyone in charge! You don’t have to be the president to make a difference. It starts within your own community. One county and city at a time. Below are links to register to vote and further info on how to get involved in state elections. https://www.usa.gov/election-office https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote 2. Our Gender Don’t Make Us Sweet: Sis, your issue ain’t with that girl who keeps talking about you. Your issue isn’t even with that boy playing games. Your issue is protecting yourself by any means necessary. Malcolm X said it straight up, the most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The media wants to put black people in negative light that we’re gangbangers and thugs carrying guns all the time and paint white assault rifle carrying fanatics as citizens just embracing their second amendment rights. Practice your rights by getting trained how to use a firearm and following the necessary precautions to getting licensed to handle a firearm in your state. In most states, the legal age to train and purchase a firearm is 21. The sooner we use these laws and rules against our oppressors the sooner we can put down our phones and stop watching in terror, and start retaliating. Sis, our people have too many enemies already to be against each other. American police can run up in your house if they truly wanted to, and the president has even openly threatened force with guns for protestors. Say Less Then. Below is a link for women to find firearm training in their state. https://thewellarmedwoman.com/instructors/ 3. We Don’t Want No Scrubs: We’ve all done it so don’t front now. You’re at a function and some girls or guys get into it and get to fighting, y’all start to gather around and pull out your phones, and make our disorganization as a race of people a spectacle. IT’S NOT CUTE ANYMORE. And we as black women no longer find clownery attractive. The sooner we hold each other to a higher standard the more systematic change we will see. Ignorance is our biggest hindrance right now. •Normalize education being a regular conversation, it’s not weird to be engaged in politics, because the people writing your paychecks are. If he don’t vote, help him sis. If he don’t care for voting, next caller cause he ain’t talking about nothing. •Normalize Healthy Black Relationships, healthy friendships where everybody can eat, and healthy relationships with your significant others not having each other looking stupid. Too long broken homes have been a key part of our disconnect. Not being for each other has been a disconnect. The only time you should be against someone black is when they’re betraying you by not being for black betterment. •Normalize Black people being in the room where decisions are being made: Everyone can profit off their interests one way or another. And at the end of the day doing so helps everyone. We need Black Lawyers, Doctors, Teachers, and Officers. We need Black people filling these positions to change the narrative of a system built against us. And if you have a passion you’re making a business of I’m proud of you. Make that business, market yourself and your product. We need more black owned businesses for the community by the community. And most importantly, •Normalize holding each other accountable for the BS: whether you date men, women, or both, normalize treating each other with respect. Men would never call their mother or grandmother half the names they call you. Men would never disrespect the women in their family like they do you. So don’t tolerate a man who isn’t giving you bare minimum respect. Ladies, you wouldn’t tell your brother or father to not show emotion, you wouldn’t like them participating in activities that would get them caught up. So don’t chase these men that don’t have common sense yet. We gotta worry about white people killing us and now our own too? Nah. And if all Else Fails… 4. Be the Ghetto Thug (Strategically): Show white America how much they need black dollars and cooperation. We’ve seen in Minneapolis how this community has resorted to getting ugly and they surely did shake the room. They burnt down the police department and they are harassing their governor to put Derek Chauvin in jail for murder and start making changes with their police department. When you have tried all three options and are still not having your demands met it is time to get ugly, we’ve been asking for generations for a change. We were asking with marching, we were asking with getting civil rights laws put in our system and obviously the government still thinks we’re sweet. I am all for the riots but I’m down for strategy too. March to the police departments, march to the city halls, and threaten to burn them to the ground. If your cries for help or not being met with assistance when a cop has their foot on your neck it’s time to stomp somebody out. It’s time to get physical, passive aggressiveness is our first go to and while I love it we’ve been responded to with blatant force. Sis, they’re scared of us. So give them a reason to, Get Ugly. Godspeed Sis, -Dev
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