I don’t want to hear privileged white women this year feeing attacked that
Black women have their own
Week for breastfeeding
I was disgusted last year when I saw grown ass women complaining saying that it wasn’t necessary for black women to have their own BF week

Let me enlighten some of y’all and share why black WOMEN deserve this

As Parenting Decolonized points out, black parents have only been able to raise their own children for less than 160 years in America. That's basically two 80-year-old grandmas living back to back. For most of U.S. history, generation upon generation upon generation of black

families were torn apart. Black mothers were often not allowed to nourish and raise their own babies, but were forced to nourish and raise the babies of their enslavers. For most of U.S. history, black breastfeeding meant wet nursing white babies, often at the expense of a black

woman's own children.

I wish I dried up
I wish every drop of my milk slipped passed those pink lips and nourished the ground
Where the bones lay
Of my babies
Starved while I feed their murderer
I wish I dried up
So the missus babies would dry up too
And be brittle
So I could crumble them to dust

Return them to the ground
Where all children of my bosom lay equal

Black Breastfeeding Week was created because for over 40 years there has been a gaping racial disparity in breastfeeding rates. The most recent CDC data show that 75% of white women have ever breastfed versus 58.9% of black women. The fact that racial disparity in initiation and

even bigger one for duration has lingered for so long is reason enough to take 7 days to focus on supporting black mothers