(TriceEdneyWire.com)—I don’t know if you have heard of President Ibrahim Traore’ of Burkina Faso. If you haven’t, make it a priority to read about the man. He’s got so much wisdom, and he’s lifting up so many of our people in Africa who said ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. President Traore’ is doing something different.
While many of our ancestors and people today in America helped to build this country. So many have worked to make America fair to all people, to recognize the genius of so many African Americans—some of whom were such geniuses that you can hardly find any important thing in America that was not discovered, built and still cared for what makes America great. For a while some of our people really thought they had it made in America. There were some hiccups on our way to equality, but each generation worked a bit more bit by bit, we began doing very important things in America that even some of the masters’ children began voting for us, welcoming us into their companies, their universities, many even turned a blind eye on so many interracial marriages.
We were able to convince many of them to elect our dearly beloved Barack Obama as President—not once, but twice. After that, all hell broke loose, but African American men and women began rising up in even more prestigious positions in an effort to make America truly great! Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson became a member of the United States Supreme Court, as did an historic Hispanic Justice by the name of Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan. We women of all races really began to think America might be learning to take advantage of the contributions of all Americans., including we African Americans.
Wow, were we wrong! It seems the pushback (racism and sexism) began to operate in overtime! That might not have been so bad, but because a significant number of White women began to believe sexism didn’t refer to them. They also began to excuse color in big numbers and began marrying as many Black men as they could find who were making a lot of money. That left a lot of Black women out in the cold, and what could have been used to build our community disappeared. So, that left all but a few Black women with no where to turn, and had to begin fending for ourselves and the families some of the men had left behind.
That was painful, but a lot of us made it anyway. Fast forward to a time Black women became highly educated and began getting high level jobs through a lot of hard work. We became doctors, lawyers, reporters and heads of government agencies. Then along came a not-so-educated man (commonly called Orange Man) who began to see us as a threat until today more than 300,000 of us have been laid off or fired. Think about the damage that is doing to our community. So, wherever you see a Black woman, those who obviously scare Trump, he’s doing his best to destroy the best of us: Kamala Harris, Leticia James, Marilyn Mosby, Fani Willis, Katanji Brown Jackson, and others. Still, we rise, and my plea to other Black women is to support your sisters who are going through hell because I’ve seen too many instances where we turned our heads or even joined the enemy.
I mentioned Ibrahim Traore’ because I want you to look at the way sisters in Burkina Faso in Africa are working with President Traore’ to raise up all of Africa—our Motherland. Never be fearful of going to the front of the line to do what we need to do to help our brothers and sisters who are working to make life better for all of us in this country and Africa. DO SOMETHING!