Tag: Acceptance
-
Phenomenal Women
Black womanhood is multifaceted, resilient and inspiring. I am a Black woman and I love who I am. I love the Black women who raised me: my mom, my aunt, my grandmothers, older cousins, family friends, church elders, anyone who has resembled me and lit a fire within my core to press on. Phenomenal Woman…
-
A house is not a home
In 1964, R & B sensation Luther Vandross recorded A House Is Not a Home. In this timeless ballad, Vandross mourns the loss of the lady in his life. He compares the void in his life to the void a vacated house. A chair is still a chair Even when there’s no one sittin’…
-
Though I’m Wrong, I Write
I think critically, I share my thoughts and I grow. I better utilize my strengths and I am more aware of my weaknesses. I enjoy studying cultural competency and the importance of diversity. Though I condemned echo-chambers in my last post, I realize that I may reside in an echo chamber myself. How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck…
-
The Restrictions of Religion
I hail from Muskogee, Oklahoma- the county seat with a population of around 30,000 kind, traditional and somewhat conformist individuals. I had 114 in my graduating class. Of these 114 people there was little religious/ spiritual variety. Last weekend in a conversation with my mom, we discussed how most students and staff from my high…
-
There is room
“Sometimes you have two children born at the same time; one is stillborn but the other one alive and healthy because the dead one gave the other a life transfusion in the womb and in essence sacrificed itself” Edwidge Danticat’s. Danticat likens discrimination, and the subsequent prejudice and oppression, caused by a perceived scarcity of…
-
Mary Tyler gave television Moore
Mary Tyler Moore is a dearly remembered actress, who embodied style, charm, grace, independence and confidence. Moore challenged social norms of what a woman should be and how she should act. She inspired women to shape their identities that didn’t rely on being a Mother or Wife (Feldman). As a millennial, I missed many of Ms. Moore’s original…
-
Give Me Gemeinschaft, or Give Me Greatness
gemeinschaft [German guh–mahyn-shahf-tuh n] Sociology. a society or group characterized chiefly by a strong sense of common identity, close personal relationships, and an attachment to traditional and sentimental concerns. We know the dangers of groupthink, the atrocities that occur, the prejudices it produces, the wars it wages and the inclusion it inhibits. Groupthink can be comfortable, it’s familiar and builds a sense of community at the expense of the exclusion of diversity. “Diversity, the act of thinking independently together.” …
-
I’m my brother’s keeper, and my brother keeps me
After murdering his brother, God asks Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” Cain responds, “I don’t know.” Cain then turns his feigned oblivion into a universal question; a question asked by families, generations and nations of people throughout the course of history. In Genesis 4:9, Cain asks God, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Perhaps both Cain’s and…
-
Is Assimilation Always Bad?
Assimilate: to bring into conformity with the customs, attitudes, etc., of a group, nation, or the like; to adapt or adjust dictionary.com In my Afro-Caribbean Literature class, we have studied the themes of identity and assimilation. After…
Kalen Nicole 