Dr. Jones go back to Georgia

It’s time for him to pack up the Vaseline he shines his head with and move back to the state of a thousand peaches. I swore I wouldn’t be catty, but sometimes you gotta be who you be. I’ll leave the intelligent and eloquent responses to my sisters. I know they have tons of great things to say. I’ll just say what everyone says behind closed doors. If you don’t know what I’m referring too, don’t waste your time reading any of his dribble. But to put this tirade in perspective: He said he was “tired of the strong Black woman.” You know, I was done. So here goes: How dare this pseudo-Black-power phony, voice such a negative, ridiculous, inane, ignorant belief. He showed he is classless, clueless and missing something else, but I won’t say that in mixed company. He thought he could disguise his bitterness and hatred in a tribute to Coretta Scott King. A tribute to her legacy surrounded by his inadequacy and obvious personal failures in relationships with women. I find it extremely interesting that a person who calls himself an expert in Black Studies seems to want to superimpose the decaying white family paradigm onto the people of African descent in America. Black people come from a matriarchal society where strong women are not suppressed or oppressed. They are encouraged and they are sources of wisdom. Now the funny thing about all this is, he suffers from an extreme lack of serious reflection of American stereotypes. You would think an academic would know how to deconstruct American society. There are boxes the four dominant people in American society fit in: White man (master of his fate/dominant over all); White woman (weak princess on a pedestal); Black man (weak, shiftless brute); and Black woman (strong, sexless or hypersexual woman, the complete antithesis of white womanhood). (Please excuse the absence of Latinos and Asians, you all were late to the American party.) These stereotypes serve no purpose. They are destructive and evil. They cause people to lean toward the tendency of pre-judgment of all they meet. White men can be subservient. White women can be strong and assertive. Black men can be hardworking, productive law-abiding citizens. Black women can be weak and delicate. But these stereotypes are so ingrained in this society, no one is willing to examine the part they are assigned to play and break free from them or how they continuously perpetuate them. Dr. Jones you make me sad that you have so little insight and you are shaping young minds.

If you didn’t know what the heck I was talking about in the previous, it’s okay. You can take away the most important thing: Free yourself to be yourself. Have a Happy Valentine’s Day.

Listening to My Life by Mary J. Blige. (a cd for us lonely chicks)