- Jun 10, 2008
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Your comment was a great comment - and I see it as a comment that should be applied to the actually youtube video as well - but with that being said.I listened to this sister's arguments. I followed what I could until I felt like I was experiencing mental whiplash! I find myself able to accept *some* of what she argues/adheres to; yet, there is *some* of what she adheres to/argues that leaves me recognizing that she wants the Black Man freed (to choose Sisters as his life mate) IF she acknowledges that HE is a Black Woman's LORD AND MASTER (and not SHE, herself). Well, for me, it is when she attempts to lay out how that freed Black Man shall thereafter function as A MAN/Lord and Master over her, and her childrens' lives that I think it important to consider HOW such a relationship would *flow*. The *day to day* kind of consideration.
See, a Black Woman with children to nurture and a household to perfect HATES ALL THREATS targeting not just her children, but for a certainty her LIFE MATE too, so...this Sister's EMPHASIS on a freed, naturally ordered Black Man as WARRIOR/PROTECTOR of his woman and children is kind of *one dimensional* and actually fails to take into account the BLACK WOMAN'S instinct-to-conscious FORETHOUGHT brought to bear against ALL THREATS she picks up on, in order to PROTECT what is HERS!
I feel much respect for what this Sister felt compelled to say, but in terms of building, too, she states that the Black Woman played no role in building? I admit I don't know what the so-called conscious community presently teaches about this, which means I don't know why this Sister felt compelled to speak on the matter more than once; still, when I heard her assert this, my immediate instinctive response was something along the lines of "I don't think so. Not correct." So in this assertion of hers, it doesnt sound right to me. Unless someone can explain/show me something in support of what she had to say on this, well (me shrugging).
Gender. I wonder what this Sister (or anyone) can think represents gender-GENIUS, and how the freedom to exercise gender-GENIUS produces *flow* from the mundane to the higher dimensional?
One Love, and PEACE
She wasn't undermining the woman but she was actually trying to uplift the brotha. I think her wording was off in that she said that sistas didn't build anything - as I'm most sure that she knows that the black woman was responsible for civilization, birth of a powerful people, etc ... so I'm sure it wasn't her intent to insist that women play no part or equal part.
She was trying to drive home the point of letting a man be a man and for women to get out of the mans place and let them be who they were born and designed to be.
Example: Years ago when I was married - - I was in Walmart with my kids and my ex - some dude was in there acting crazy real close to us - so my kids naturally being scared got right behind me instinctively (my daughter 5 at the time grab my leg and held on for dear life) but my ex - she started talking crazy to this man and walked in front of me like she could whoop him or something. First this dude wasn't taking to her so she drew the attention to us, secondly she was talking to an angry brotha, and third I had to go off on her and make her stand down which she turned on me and started flying off the hook. I was embarrassed and ashamed all in one instance because white people, Asians, etc ... was looking at us and watching my ex act stereotypical (so was the brotha). Once he seen me talking to her and now I'm getting upset - I'm sure he could see the rage I was going in because now I have to possible beat this man down because she thought she could challenge a man which she put my kids and herself in harms way. The funny thing is - that dude had something to be upset over (I think they shorted him ... ) but I turned and looked at him after I addressed my Ex ... and I gave him that look like I'm ready to get it in - are you because now I'm in it. He turned and went on about his ranting and raving - and didn't look back our way.
These are the points that I think this sista was hitting on ... in the situation I gave as an example: the man wasn't talking to us but I had my eye on him watching his moves which means I had everything under-control when it came mine and me - we could have left the store without any altercation - and he would have just been a mad brotha in the store.
I think this is a basic level of what she was pointing out - but even on a mental level - the black man has become feminine - and our sistas have become masculine - as though their was a role reversal and we weren't warned about it.