It's Only Unity, When You Need Our Labor

     TWO weeks ago, white women (and some white men) were screaming from the mountain tops proclaiming that we ALL [especially Black women] needed to unify in the fight for bodily autonomy.  The [plausible] overturning of Roe v. Wade had them trying to "bring the peace" overnight within the intersectionality of womanhood (while culturally appropriating and misusing artistry dedicated to black women). Fast forward less than a month's time and now it's: "NOT all of us"... "it's NOT our fault"..."What do you expect us to do about this"..." why is everything about race"..." maybe fix your own communities first"..." all races have people like that".

   But not too long ago, we are all suffering and engaging in the same fight.  It was just, "we're all in this together."  Now it's every non-white person for themselves because you are less than.  When it is brought to the attention of white women [yet again], they are befriending, bedding, excusing, coddling, and raising the greatest threats to the lives of the rest of us... now their racism takes center stage.  The whataboutisms become more rapid-fire than a nerf competition.  

     When you need OUR LABOR, you expect it under the guise of unity as a measure of combating oppression.  Yet, the only actual oppression you know is having to sit second chair at the royal table of supremacy.  You are not riddled with the painstaking tasks of teaching your children how to interact with police and white people in order to return home ALIVE.  You ALLOW your children to feel entitled to everyone's space, bodies, time, and energy.  You REFRAIN from teaching them to respect others (especially BIPOC individuals) or to NOT MURDER those that differ from them.

    You cloak their hatred and murderous fantasies as mental health woes while vilifying the families of their VICTIMS.  You separate yourself from your race and your gender to appear to be "one of the good ones" on paper while containing all others in a monolith.  Two weeks ago we were ALL the nurturers of the world, therefore, why are you NOT calling for a unified fight to protect children & our elders from GUN VIOLENCE?

     Is it because you see the faces of your male loved ones in the eyes of the domestic terrorists? Is it because you hear the rhetoric that you deny each night around the dinner table? Is it because they are just misunderstood due to their [overwhelming] fear of being replaced as the majority? Or is it...just maybe...they are protecting YOU from your fear? Are they doing the handy work that you have been told that you cannot do due to your gender? 

    Why aren't your pro-life, super Saiyan Christain counterparts that proclaim that they are all about saving the children? Why haven't you riled them into action? is it because your loved ones are still resting comfortably at home? Is it because you have the privilege of NOT having to think about or consider race when it comes to YOU and YOUR BRETHREN? Historically speaking, why would you ever expend energy or care for matters that are never delivered to your front door? 

     Are you getting WHY we told you two weeks ago that the fight was YOURS and that we have decided to protect our peace? We are tired of you expecting us to witness tragedy after tragedy and attempt to uncover our new normal while [simultaneously] fighting for rights that you swoop in and colonize for you and you alone.  When we are hurting and working to remove the root cause of the pain... you become blind and immobile.  

    In conclusion...allow me to remind you...we are NOT your free labor.  We are not your superhero.  We endure MORE than you could fathom or choose to acknowledge.  Leave us be, until YOU truly work to forge [actual] unity within this intersectionality of womanhood.