Strong White Women?

Sarah Palin's revision of a Dr. Seuss classic - 'I do not like this Uncle Sam. I do not like his healthcare scam...'

For some decades it was inconceivable for me to envision white women as powerful. Surprisingly, it was the series, Xenia: the Warrior Princess that nudged me towards accepting such a possibility. My son, Lemuel, was young at the time and both of us fell out laughing at the absurdity of a white woman in battle on a television show! It was hilarious! But, admiring her agility and her incredible thighs the second episode we saw had us transfixed not only to Lucy Lawless' body and the story links to ancient mythologies, but Lucy Lawless' fierce spirit seemed close to the warrior stories of Celtic women in combat the ancient Romans faced and later wrote about.

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5.11.15



Cat Woman was Ann Hathaway in The Dark Knight Rises

"You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women." -Ginger Rogers, actress





Jean Smart, actress Designing Women became a focus of attention and study for me as I unlearned my misgivings and distaste for white people in general. Specifically, white women from the South famous or not gave me a better guide during this inspiration. It was hard work, and gratefully there were no casualties. No bodies of confidence lay scattered across a barren landscape and only one white woman I knew was deeply hurt in her soul by my backlash. In the end, I am here another type of man with another type of insights into reconciliation.

This is a small tribute to Southern white belles as fine as Jean Smart. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9.26.15

"While white people always distance the past from the present, like Nancy Grahn at the Emmys tweeting that “it’s 2015 what does Harriet Tubman have to do with anything” - at the end of a lecture going through pieces of evidence about the enslaved African’s stories on the Amistad ship, an audience member asked if any of this information aligned with Obama’s politics. Even though every anti-Black person around the world says they’re obviously opposed to Black oppression, when it comes to saying Black liberation, they get scared.

The reason why Nancy has a problem with Harriet Tubman being talked about is that she politically is against liberation from slavery. When someone’s opposition to Obama is because he aligns politically with slaves who freed themselves, it starts to make a lot more sense how similar modern white people and society is to antebellum white society and politics with a change of technology." ~ Lioness Daiba Sala‎ (Sept.24, 2015)




Harlem book store 1970

hair style of an educated woman
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