People are tired. Especially black people. It's not just the daily grind of racism — it's the cumulative weight of being told to move, to be quiet, to not ask questions, to perform extra emotional labor for white people, to walk on eggshells in your own life.

And where does that energy go? Into the system that keeps you down. Meanwhile, corporations profit from underpaid black workers, police departments get rich off black bodies, and politicians treat black communities as polling districts rather than human beings.

Black fatigue isn't a metaphor. It's measurable stress, higher rates of hypertension, depression, anxiety disorders. And we've normalized it so much that people ask "why do you feel this way?" instead of "how can I make your life safer?
Until someone in power decides black lives matter enough to actually change things, the burden remains on our backs.