She was a black woman and they were the most vicious with their tongues. Their words were weapons that they used to protect themselves when black men failed to do so. They were so deadly because they were dipped in the resentment of abandonment. Fathers who left, boyfriends who cheated, husbands who broke vows, sons who disappointed, it all contributed to the generations worth of black women who shot those deadly words at black men. Black men had failed to protect black women and all they had were slick comments full of disrespect to respond with.
