Really Woke Signs from the Women’s Marches night why Black Women aren’t here for the “sisterhood BS

As I write this, I am vibing out of the quintessential woke black girl album, Solange’s A Seat at the Table. I have just rolled my eyes at J Holiday’s emergence from obscurity to attack women rappers like Cardi B while I have just listened to Kimberly Foster of For Harriet’s latest piece on Amara de Negra’s interview and the funny, not so funny ignorance of the male interviewers on colorism.

You can say I man in my black girl bag today. It amazes me that, even with the discrimination and oppression on the outside, and ignorance, misogyny, and issues within, Black women are a force. We are the glue to our communities, the pride of our universities, the bearer of the stories from the previous generations and the bearers of next generation.

Which got me to thinking about the recent “sisterhood” marches that took place around the United States this past weekend on the anniversary of last year’s inaugural record breaking March day. How was this year’s different from last year’s?

Well, to start, Black women are still continuing to save the United States from itself. Which makes these marchs for sisterhood quite interesting, particularly because while black women voted over 90% against the current administration, our supposed sister’s secretly or otherwise, voted for it. That coupled with the recent Alabama senate race where 63% of them voted for an accused pedophile racist bigot over a sensible, albeit dry, politician, a race that the good sista’s of Alabama rallied and pulled mightily to a win for Doug Jones, saving the nation from more of the current administration and saving little white girls everywhere.

Leave it to a black woman...

No wonder that, along with the historical shut out of the black woman’s narrative in feminism, that black women are looking at our white counterparts with a side eye. Are you really down for the struggle Becky? Or will you be choosing whiteness over womanhood again as you did for most of 2017 and back. Are we only sisters when you have something to gain from my voice? Or are you legit and part of a group who unfortunately votes against their own self interests for the illusion of security behind their ethnicity?

I digress.

We saw some pretty woke signs this past weekend. On this #womancrushwednesday, here are some of my faves.