Have you seen her? The melanin blessed beauty who dances as she pleases to the beat at night and raises her fist for black power during the day. She’s a carefree black girl. But how can a black girl be carefree? The world is against us and most of the time we have no one else to lean on but ourselves. No one loves black girls like black girls.

So we find strength in each other and in what makes us unique. Everything they told us was ugly we now see the beauty in. So it’s not a question of how we can be carefree but the fact that we must be and now are.

Whether you have box braids down to your hips, flawless weave or let your natural hair grow towards the sun, you love yourself from within and that’s all that matters. That self love. That black girl love. It’s that real love because it comes from centuries of being told you can not be loved. The most wanted yet the most hated but still you rise above it all.

I salute you all carefree black girls. You inspire me like no one else because there is no one else like you – like us. Us carefree black girls truly are magic. We fight for each other all day and love all night so freely. The chains of injustice that are placed on our bodies everyday tell us we’re still not free. That may be true but for each other and for ourselves, we are carefree.