Do We Hate Our Women?

Do We Hate Our Women?

Now if you were born after 1990 or weren't allowed to watch music videos until you went to college you probably don't understand the cultural significance of the title to this blog.

It comes from the revolutionary thug poet, Tupac Shakur's song, "Keep Your Head Up". Now if Tupac was good at anything it was being able evoke honest emotions from the thoroughest of niggaz.

The exact lyric is:
"I wonder why we take from our women, why we rape our women? , Do we hate our women?"

Sadly, I can report with all honesty...Yes we do.

This past weekend I went to a rally for the injustice two young lesbian black women faced at the hands of six black men at Magaritaville a few weeks ago.

Now regardless of how you feel about their sexual orientation, No woman should ever be beaten or jumped by men. I just couldn't imagine this happening.

Then again I could. And at that moment I thought to myself,
 "I am just as guilty".

Over the past year the incidents of violence toward women publicly has served as our entertainment, with such sensational soundbites as "You going to jail now" and being turned into a chorus for a French Montana song, "I told that bitch gimme head, Ochocinco".

I even saw Lil Reese's flurry of punches to a teenage girl get turned into a Street Fighter style punch combo.

The most disturbing part of all this is that in every situation I heard men AND even women justifying the actions of these men.

When black men are no longer defending black women and beating them instead, what kind of solidarity do we really have?

In many cases it seems like we have delegated black women to being nothing more than potential cum dumpsters and mothers to our bastard children.

That's why its so easy to harm them. When you don't think a woman is shit you usually treat her like...Shit. And that is what happening in our community.

Ladies ya'll aren't off the hook either. Stop thinking its cute to be abused and beat on. I can't tell you how many women I've asked, "If your man put his hands on you would you take him back?" only to hear the reply of "People make mistakes, things happen"

Man..What.The.Fuck?

We need to start holding our women to the standard of our mothers, because that's what they have the potential to be.

The day a nigga ever put his hands on my mom is the last day that nigga will take a breath.

But if you hate your mom like alot of men do I guess its easy to sit back, watch, laugh, and contribute to the Worldstar views without ever saying shit.

Written by Grit$ (@DeeperThanGrits)