They Spoke and I Listened: Words From the Hearts of 2 Black Women, Compiled and Authored by the Fingers of 1 Woman, Who’s White.
I want to preface you as a reader, on what you are about to read. I want to emphasize that this is not a sugar coated piece , this isn’t an article that will leave you feeling comfortable, it is an article that will leave you grasping for air, it will leave you dumb founded, and uncertain of any certainty you ever had. The stories from the two woman below, are people that I have been blessed to have in my life. They have taken the time , and put aside the intense and unrelenting pain they are going through, to voice their stories, portraying what they as black woman have dealt with, with brutal honesty, and only the purest intentions. Their stories are painful, their words disheartening, but what is most concerning is that these are not fictional stories, these are their lives I called, they talked, and I listened. This is what I heard. Paris I’m trying to think of how to express this to you, when its so normalized for me , its hard for me to tak...