Why Do We Need A Black Breastfeeding Week?

Why do we need a black breasfeeding week?

Reason 1)

You were afraid to nurse your young

lest fallen breast offend your master’s sight and he should flee to firmer loveliness.

And so you passed them, your children, on to me.

Flesh that was your flesh and blood

that was your blood drank the sustenance of life from me.

And as I gave suckle I knew I nursed my own child’s enemy.

I could have lied,

told you your child was fed till it was dead of hunger.

But I could not find the heart to kill orphaned innocence.

For as it fed, it smiled and burped and gurgled with content

and as for color knew no difference.

Yes, in that first while

I kept your sons and daughters alive.

But when they grew strong in blood

and bone that was of my milk

you taught them to hate me.

Put your decay in their hearts and upon their lips so that strength that was of myself

turned and spat upon me,

despoiled my daughters, and killed my sons.

You know I speak true.

Though this is not true for all of you.