Blurb from short story, written for reader responses

In an effort to develop or re-image my 'voice' I have finished another small blurb or snap shot..

Her was not half white pretty, she was in his image and  tasting of God…her lips smelled innocent.  Her personality went smoothly down my throat as I came to love the idea of her.  Her laughter would trickle down the front of my spine and grace my awareness.  

But, He being unmoving in his lust and quiet appreciation, for she just WAS black and God had made this woman to absorb his love- would have no one else.  Her skin took the shape of silence, as though an abyss had cloaked her frame.  But I exaggerate, for the blackness I speak of is not her complexion.  Her knowledge of Black and love of heritage would exceed her appearance.  I sat facing the back of her head, the front of the church preceding me.  Blue-skinned mamas whooping at the presence of GOD and old women holding smelling salts wrapped in white cloth tucked beneath their noses calmed their abiding souls.  The Spirit had tasted this air and we, hurting souls had felt He here.  Gospel music rinsing down the sides of my arms and skin, me was made aware.  The sanctity of this place was crawling up and down my eyes, I witnessing the residue of indigenous Africans.

This piece was by Alice Walker, specifically her church scene in The Color Purple.  In a perfect world, any one of my written works would achieve the depth and beauty of this book--it basically tackles a multitude of black cultural pathologies, celebrations, sexual taboos and triumph-- one can only hope.

dating your son?

Soon enough there will be a diagnosis in African American Kulture of single mothers or care givers of black males that have coddled and crippled our young boys into being weak men.  Part of the reason, I suppose, is the lack of healthy black male and female relationships.
Years ago, I came across a very interesting debate in American history involving the dynamics of gender roles and paternalism within Black American Kulture; most importantly, I was inspired while conducting research about various pathologies and ideologies by a certain Michelle Wallace.  Her book, Black Macho and the Myth of  the Superwoman, challenged my own thinking about masculinity and sexism in the Black Nationalist movement.
 How is this relevant? well my research was about various campaigns and political strategies within the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Nationalist Movement using media.  Naturally, the positive and negative influencers of these printing schemes whether led by the FBI or by groups like SCLC and the BPP to flood the market with their own agendas and propaganda it exposed me to a wealth of debates in various print publications about black male and female ideas about gender equality.
 A notion that challenges the very pervasive black male leadership paradigm.. well, this brings the argument back to 2013 wherein a lot of mothers are sort of worshipping their sons in an effort to protect him from the reality of not having his biological father play a strong role in his upbringing or her lack of self worth.  Either way their has sparked a, "my son is forever my baby" trend.. whereby young boys cannot even change tires or worse yet grow up to never become someone's husband or to be good fathers themselves; it ends up being left to the woman in his life to raise or re-create in these modern men---manhood.

WHy are Gay rights taking precidence over women's rights?

 Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg.  I will most likely buy this book before the end of the week and here's why: aside from my blabbing on about relationships and Black American Kulture, being a Christian woman and a daughter, I am a woman first!

 Last week the Steve Harvey Morning show, during the 'Judgement Mondays" segment  a gay/homosexual/lesbian (gotta get all the right terms in there these days) asked a question literally INFURIATED me!! She was married, to a woman, but had conceived a child in a previous relationship with a man. Her 'wife' signed the birth certificate as the "father of the child", anyway this 'Woman" was trying to figure out how she could go after the birth father for child support!!!! GASP! I was confused at the double standard... but very intrigued at how situations like this one will play out in the court systems as we set precedents and basically alter the gender code in America.

I, personally, hope that incidents such as this one will provide some relief to fathers or men who get 'trapped' by women who, while the 'gettin-was good', were very willing to have a purely physcial relationship but then when things change, i.e. pregnancy want to have a baby with a man who NEVER intended on having a child with them!!! However, the book made me realize how even when the tables are turned and traditions are threatened men still have the upper hand!!! it could very well help women's rights when same sex couples--- men in same sex relationships begin to experience the hardships associated with female gender roles... maybe when Josh and Eric have to find sitters and are up all night fixing bottles or in the emergency room at 4:35am because of an ear-ache or 103 degree fever-- we'll get the maternity leave, fair treatment and pay as the 'husbands' and male heads of households enjoy now.