Your black grandmother had to be sold in exchange for cows so that her father could educate her brothers. Your black mother had to walk 5km to school because that was the nearest school that accommodated girls and you wonder why your 17yr old sister is a feminist.
Your black grandma had to endure being a child bride; at 16 she was a mother of 3 tied to an abusive husband. Your black mother wanted to be a doctor but ended up as a seamstress because the system was too intimidated by ambitious black girls. And you wonder at 17yr old Feminists
Your black Aunty was raped repeatedly by her father at 13 and your cousin her daughter looks so much like your mother, her sister. Your black mother lost 5 jobs before keeping her 6th because she could live with Sexual harrasment but not her kids being kicked out of school again.
Your black sister the black sheep of the family can't stand buses because when she was 14, the bus driver, conductor & two other passengers thought it would be fun to rape her. Your family kept it quiet because they didn't want shame on your family.
Your black cousin whose mother was a little crazy, had to close her eyes tightly while your father raped as payment for paying her school fees. The same way he raped her mother when she was two. And you wonder why your sister's 16yr old daughter is a feminist.
Your black daughter will kill herself one day because her 4 male classmates will gang rape her in boarding school and take pictures of her naked bloodied body and share it with everyone. And you will come here and reduce her Feminism and pain to boys not loving her right.
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