Why Are Black Women Forced To Fight For Their Lives?

Is it entertaining to see us suffer?

Seriously, why are Black women treated with such disdain by those who relish the notion of our discomfort and shaming in public spaces?

We’ve all seen enough viral shit to comprehend how Black women are constantly provoked and violently handled by law enforcement and White harassers.

Thugs in uniform never pass up a chance to pull us over, and then proceed to provoke our patience with accusations and comments that are supposed to reduce our ability to implement our rights as law-abiding citizens.

When that doesn’t work, the legendary fragile egos of White males overtakes the cowards with badges as they refuse to be verbally overpowered by strong women with Blackness to boot.

We saw it with Sandra Bland as she battled to retain her dignity by presenting the facts — and not relenting to the obvious and unnecessary prodding by a White traffic cop— who had already decided her fate before he even approached her vehicle.

Almost four years later, we’re left with the emptiness of a vibrant young woman who did absolutely nothing to warrant the unfathomable abuse — that was captured on film — and led to her demise in a cold hard cell — hours after she was brutally carted away…