Change Will Come

Dear Linda,

           Linda, the legacy that you and other enslaved women have left on this country has not been forgotten. You live in me, my mother, my grandmother and all of the other women who would not be here without the strength, resistance, resistance and undying bravery that you and your enslaved sisters showed throughout your lifetimes.

You might be pleasantly surprised to hear that the life of your black sisters 150 years after your girlhood is starkly different from your own. Little black girls in my time do not rise to pick cotton or slave in the house of white men and women filled with spite and evil. We do not rise in fear that the new day will take away the flesh of our backs, or that our innocent bodies will be violently raped by men twice our age.

We are of a new millennium, but there is still work to be done. Our race still suffers from oppression and injustice. You may be saddened to know that we are still seen as inferior by many of our white compatriots.  But we have risen with voices that grow louder each and every year as we grow more and more proud of our dark pigmentation and curly hair. We are the black millennials. We wear our blackness unapologetically with our heads held high, knowing that we come from some of the strongest people to ever walk this earth. We come from an era that has seen black billionaires, black astronauts, black celebrities and even a black president. So Linda, I know your days are dark and your nights even darker. But smile. Know that a brighter day is coming.

Love and light,

Jordan