- Jun 8, 2004
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...and take the kinds of dynamic leadership roles our communities are crying out for???
I am reading these threads for the first time, and I understand why I have not ventured into this forum before... Ya know, men have intuition, too, sistas(smile!) Y'all are in here talkin' about baby mama this and that, why white beauty standards affect y'all more than us, and our nation is burning down all around us... A nation reflects the state of mind of its women - or she who rocks the cradle...
Fact is, I think Black Women have the capacity for dynamic leadership, as well-spoken, as outspoken, as charismatic and full of personality as many sisters are, they should be filling the seats held by some of our milquetoast brothers... Problem is, sisters are concerned with sista stuff, and not the overall health of the Black community, IMHO... Sisters are concerned with pleasing the preacher and other member of the congregation with how well they can cook that fried chicken, and how fly they can look with their choir robes on sunday...(smile!)
Obviously, this does not apply to all Black women, but it is symbolic of where a lot of sisters heads are at... We know that the Black Church is now, and has been by far for centuries, Black America's strongest institution... It exists because Black Women will never let it die... They are it's heart, soul, and backbone... It makes preachers rich off the backs of strong Black Women, who never get to share in it's riches unless they're the preacher's wife...
I am wondering why African women allow this kind of thing to go on??? I am wondering why sisters have so much to say about the finances to the man in their house, but not the well-dressed cat who preaches on sunday??? What does HE owe to the community he is taking so much from??? Uh, huh, I've heard it said that not enough of us brothers attend church these days... Well, that is one of the reasons, I assure you(smile!)
Here in my community, I have counted more than 100 churches along a 2-mile strip... Some are old-style store-fronts, and some are major and minor brick structures, and all have different names, and no doubt, different sized congregations... It makes me wonder why cats go into preaching if it aint the job they couldn't get pumping gas... That's another story, however...
I just wanna know when sisters are gonna step up to the plate, and take their place of world and community leadership, and stop sloughing that responsibility off on brothers(smile!) I think that you all engage, sometimes, in the game of "a good offense is your best defense." You criticize us so much, and so often, that your own faults tend to get overlooked... Women in leadership is nothing new to Africans, not even these brainwashed Africans in America... That means that Sisters have to stop complaining about these old piece-a-Black men, and doing what they've got to do... Ida B. didn't complain, she just did what a strong, dynamic Black woman does, and stepped up her assault on the system... Sistas, I guess they don't make Black Women like dat no mo', huh?(smile!)
Peace!
Zeke
I am reading these threads for the first time, and I understand why I have not ventured into this forum before... Ya know, men have intuition, too, sistas(smile!) Y'all are in here talkin' about baby mama this and that, why white beauty standards affect y'all more than us, and our nation is burning down all around us... A nation reflects the state of mind of its women - or she who rocks the cradle...
Fact is, I think Black Women have the capacity for dynamic leadership, as well-spoken, as outspoken, as charismatic and full of personality as many sisters are, they should be filling the seats held by some of our milquetoast brothers... Problem is, sisters are concerned with sista stuff, and not the overall health of the Black community, IMHO... Sisters are concerned with pleasing the preacher and other member of the congregation with how well they can cook that fried chicken, and how fly they can look with their choir robes on sunday...(smile!)
Obviously, this does not apply to all Black women, but it is symbolic of where a lot of sisters heads are at... We know that the Black Church is now, and has been by far for centuries, Black America's strongest institution... It exists because Black Women will never let it die... They are it's heart, soul, and backbone... It makes preachers rich off the backs of strong Black Women, who never get to share in it's riches unless they're the preacher's wife...
I am wondering why African women allow this kind of thing to go on??? I am wondering why sisters have so much to say about the finances to the man in their house, but not the well-dressed cat who preaches on sunday??? What does HE owe to the community he is taking so much from??? Uh, huh, I've heard it said that not enough of us brothers attend church these days... Well, that is one of the reasons, I assure you(smile!)
Here in my community, I have counted more than 100 churches along a 2-mile strip... Some are old-style store-fronts, and some are major and minor brick structures, and all have different names, and no doubt, different sized congregations... It makes me wonder why cats go into preaching if it aint the job they couldn't get pumping gas... That's another story, however...
I just wanna know when sisters are gonna step up to the plate, and take their place of world and community leadership, and stop sloughing that responsibility off on brothers(smile!) I think that you all engage, sometimes, in the game of "a good offense is your best defense." You criticize us so much, and so often, that your own faults tend to get overlooked... Women in leadership is nothing new to Africans, not even these brainwashed Africans in America... That means that Sisters have to stop complaining about these old piece-a-Black men, and doing what they've got to do... Ida B. didn't complain, she just did what a strong, dynamic Black woman does, and stepped up her assault on the system... Sistas, I guess they don't make Black Women like dat no mo', huh?(smile!)
Peace!
Zeke