OBL Dead

I’m glad. His perversion of Islam was his greatest crime. A religion that tenants are there is no compulsion in religion was changed into a twisted tool of a megalomaniac. He was a rich kid with nothing else better to do but come up with conspiracy theories about America. Now, don’t get me wrong, America has never been that good to brown people all over the world, but America’s sins aside, the tenants of America have always been just and pure. Liberty. Justice for all. Freedom of speech. Freedom of assembly. No establishment of religion. These ideas born during the Age of Reason are what make America’s ideals the very best in the world. They promote peaceful dissent, dialogue, free thinking, and intellectual curiosity. These are the things that OBL hated. He didn’t care about women being uncovered or the Palestinians. He wanted to end modernity. He wanted to obliterate free thinking. He wanted to medieval times where people were ignorant where “lords” and religious figures manipulated and controlled the masses. Of course, there will still be terrorism. Of course, we must remain vigilant. Of course, people will still die. Of course, the world will keep on spinning. But the world is better off with OBL gone and sent back to his maker.

Spiritual Assault

Every article I read about Black Women is negative. Single motherhood. Unlikely to get married. Draining society on welfare. Personalities are unfeminine. I sick of it. It has to stop now. Most of the articles are hack jobs that delve no deeper into cause and effect than the effects of ex-lax on your bowels. The articles conveniently ignore poverty. The articles conveniently ignore the legacy of slavery. The articles conveniently ignore the legacy of Jim Crow. There are layers and layers of issues going on with all of these “issues.”

In my eyes and the eyes of many of my sisters, the Black Woman is a survivor, the mother of everyone, the strength of the human race with no time to ponder. Black Woman speak up and demand to be heard by everyone. When her counterpart refuses to raise the kids he helped create, she has her baby and soldiers on. When her counterpart refuses to marry her, she works and soldiers on. When she has no education, no skills or no family support, she accepts help and soldiers on. When she is told she talks too much, has too many opinions or seems too masculine, she continues being herself and soldiers on.

I will no longer let these provocateurs ruin my spiritual peace. In the immortal words of my mother: Fuck ‘em and feed ‘em beans from a rooftop with a slingshot!