This is a two fold message that will be short and sting.

Black women it is time for you to stop begging some black men for what you need, require and deserve. Teaching them every damn thing is not our responsibility. “Ready” made black men exist and they already know what to do. That is what makes them ready.

Black men, you cannot love any black woman properly until you have loved our black daughters properly. Some of y’all have children you don’t know and do not take care of. We only have so many broken and hurting women because they simply aged out of childhood and aged into adulthood.

Happy, loved, thriving girls become happy, loved, thriving women. This ain’t complicated but too many of you want to talk about it and write about it as opposed to being about it.

-Dana Lena’

4 the culture

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