What happen to women being women of respect and dignity?
Yes...there
are numerous black women behaving in a way that support the Great Culture of
the past. When I think of the expectations that I have for my yet to be born
daughter, I feel an immediate overwhelming sense of fear. I am terrified that
my Porter will haphazardly stumble across a television train wreck (TV show)
that will partially influence her...slightly encourage her to behave like an
untamed human...gently push her towards what a woman is not:
Basketball
Wives like many reality shows are poor examples of the American culture. In my
travels all around this world for work (Peace Corps) and pleasure (Hedonism is
off the chain, by the way), I have been in the unwanted position of explaining
to a villager or a resort wait staffer that all Americans are not uninhabited
beast. Particularly, when I get, "Why do black people act like that?"
"Like what, Ms.?" That's the question I come back with knowing
full-well where the conversation is headed.
The
most recent opportunity for me to respond to the Like What question was a few weeks ago while basking in the Jamaican:
The
Response to my Like What Question:
‘Why
do black women from America behave like those women on the show Basketball
Wives and Atlanta Housewives?’
Due
to my extreme discontent with the way black Americans have represented
themselves in the COLLECTIVE, I refuse to answer the sincere question now…these days.
Once
upon a time I did respond. I would state all the usual excuses and conclude by
prefacing examples of Black Elegance:
Overtime, I discovered
that my continued and long-winded explanations were/are not as powerful as the
junk box...nothing can stop the media infiltration that was created by the
Jewish/European forces in Hollywood.
Ultimately,
the reason for bad behavior displayed by the former Africans residing in
Babylon is the responsibility of the poor excuses for Africans who pathetically
claim/recite their American citizenship by reciting the pledge of allegiance - and who sadly do not know the words to:
Black
people have created the stereotypes, we reinforce them every single day, and in
turn Caucasians correctly remind us that we are the stereotype that has taken residency
in their minds.
Face
it…there is no group effort to represent Harriet Tubman in the most positive way.
There is no collective effort to be worthy of an entrance pass to the Black Ancestral
Heavens. None! The days of honoring your slave name with fear of getting a whipping
and with Elder Instilled Integrity are long gone.
Gone
like all of these poor examples of black femininity.
I
applaud Star Jones for her most recent efforts to bring additional attention to
the way countless black females are ill-representing Black Woman
Divinity. I also applauded Star when she refused to bring herself to the lows
of NeNe Leakes while on The Apprentice.
Star
Jones proved in that moment of contention with NeNe that she is better.
Unfortunately, several black women that I interfaced with the Monday following
that episode were cheering for NeNe. And, get this: these women were not hood
chicks!
Apprentice
Teachers are what our young black women and men need. They don't need reality
shows featuring black women/men behaving badly. Especially, black women with
husbands who work for the Nicca Basketball League...Exploitation extended to
the basketball wife and family. Shameful!
A
praying man who behaves with decency and who has contributed to the empowerment
of black people worldwide prays for a debonair Queen...not an Evelyn Lozada or
the likes of her!
I
thank my God that I have always had/have Black Queens in my life – and my
Porter (unborn daughter) will be among those ranks of Porter's mother:
The
Black Rebel
Thanks for articulating what I have been thinking for quite some time. We have become out own worse enemy in that we have played into every stereotype of the angry, uncontrollable, profanity-laced black woman.
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You are welcome!
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