Wet nurse

 Wet nurse

I had to feed 

My massa’s child 

Not my own

My baby has been taken 

Away from me…

Tears streamin down 

My face but nobody care…

I was exhausted 

I wanted to sleep 

But I was forced to nurse 

A slaveowner’s baby….

My breasts swollen…

They said if I don’t take care 

Of their child, 

I’d get whooped….

I do what I had to do 

Pour that milk into that pale infant….

Had no choice 

I’m scared to run away….

So I stay and nurse all those white children 

While mine is at another plantation 

Or in an alligator's stomach….

I didn’t choose to be 

A wet nurse….

I never choose to be 

A mammy….

Since these mistresses 

Have no interest in raisin her kids 

They put it all on me…..

Not only i breastfed 

I taught them how to be kind

Yet there are times they called me nigger…

Their mother didn’t say a word…..

Imagine 

In a Slaveowner’s house 

Where you hear their kids being taught 

White superiority and racism 

By their parents 

While doin chores….

Does it hurt your bones?

That you’re somebody’s property 

Somebody’s object….

And not a human….

Kids learned that 

That falsehood 

And you gave them milk

From your bosom….

And you see 

Why this is part of 

Black women 

Has that  trauma 

Over the generations….

We were trained 

to serve white people

That includes 

Wet nursin white babies 

Instead of our own…..

Apparently 

We have better milk 

I wonder if white masters 

Were force black slaves to 

Breastfeed them as well…

It’s a role in rape….

The fact that white man 

Wanted to suckle her nipple, too

Like this is his entitlement…

He persuaded her 

Make her unwrap her clothin 

To get a taste…

She can’t refuse 

She can’t say no 

Feels like it’s no choice 

She cried 

and cried 

Creatin a condition 

That her brain responds 

To I have to 

I have to 

I have to 

I can’t say no…..

It’s like 

Wet nurse syndrome 

Like I have to breastfeed 

White babies, then my massa

While the wife became 

Red with fury…

Also 

White babies would cry 

Out loud for a black slave woman

Cos of the bondin and connection…

Yet she’s still miserable….

You can’t be happy 

When you’re forced to feed 

Somebody’s child…

You’re not a machine 

Your nipples ain’t objects

You’re a human 

You’re a woman 

You’re melaninated 

Back then 

You were treated like an animal…

They place inferiority complex into your veins

And turned you into wet nurse for your slaveowner

Even himself….

💔✊🏿💯©️ Kai C. 4-19-26

Southern Belle

 Southern Belle

Southern Belle

Is envied of 

Black slave women….

She has everythin

She got the man…

But the man raped 

Those slave women….

She is mad at them, 

But not the slaveowner..

And here I thought 

For a second 

He was a gentleman 

He’s not….

He smells 

And dirty…

Why did he bring along 

His black slave girl?

Oh yes 

He needs “company”

Not only that 

That southern Belle 

Smacked her 

Instead of gettin 

Piss off at the man

The white man

Cos back then 

Slaveowners 

Would go to cabin 

And take advantage 

Of black slave women 

At night 

In the daytime 

While their wives are 

In the house…they would watch 

Their husbands walked out

Zippin their pants up

They blamed black women 

Who cleaned their house 

Nurse their white babies

Stay in the kitchen 

They had to keep their heads down 

But the pain, the endurance 

They had to hold their tears back

Into their bones…

They hid their blood and learn the silence 

In the air…

These white women

Who are southern belles

They ain’t damsels…

They’re the type of mean girls 

Who use their white tears to convince 

The laws to coddle them…

Like how they forced black women to 

Cover up their natural hair…

Not only that 

They force them to work in their households 

After slavery was abolished….

Another thing 

Is that 

Southern belles are rapists, too

They force black slave men 

To have sex with them…

Even little black boys…

And we thought 

The southern bells 

Are sophisticated 

Luxurious 

You see them at a 

Ball being romanticized 

And poetic in a way….

But no….

They’re monsters….

They’re jealous…

And they convince their husbands 

Or their companions to get rid of 

Certain slave women who weren’t even tryin 

To be in a male gaze….

Remember their heads were down…

At the same time 

Southern belles

Wore big ass dresses 

They copied African female butts….

1800’s BBLs

Yet nobody 

Speaks about 

Southern belles

Durin slavery 

Nobody discusses 

How it falsely showed 

And claimed 

That a white woman is 

Superior….that a white woman

Is a top ten dream girl…,

The fact she was also a 

Slaveowner as well..✊🏿💯©️ Kai C. 4-19-26