QUEEN

Queen Afua

"I'm just trying to be an inspiration to people who just want to get healthy. It's not about losing 100 lbs., because that's not who I want to be. But, it is about being really healthy." - Queen Latifah 

HAS FEMINISM WORKED FOR BLACK WOMEN?

Antoinette Green Snow

November 19, 2012

THE STORY

Being a single mother and a business woman, I see the significance of this article.  I have not been an active member of the workforce for some time, but I did work a job for years that had no maternity leave, was based on a pay scale that left me behind my male counterparts, and had no sensitivity to the needs of my life as the primary and sole provider for my children.

I do disagree with the perspective of what has gotten better and what has gotten worse.

1. More reproductive control and sexual freedom allows us to enjoy safer sex with more partners—and to shape our careers and make more money without having to worry about an unintended pregnancy.
I can’t say that this is a plus for women. With the value of women, especially black women, being reduced to their looks, **** size, and how down they are in the bedroom, this “freedom” allows more room to involve ourselves in the activities of that thinking. We are not stronger because we can sleep around, but are more irresponsible and careless. The results can bee seen on television shows, books, women’s forums, and music. Women who freely give themselves over physically to men, and though they have no baby from their encounter, they still carry the seed of that which states to them that their pussy isn't adequate enough to get and keep a man. Where is the power and freedom in that?

2. Women’s participation in the workforce has increased dramatically, from nearly 40 percent in 1960 to over 60 percent today.

This is a kinda an obvious one to me. With the number of single parent homes dramatically increasing, it makes economic sense to allow women more opportunities in the workforce to decrease welfare recipients and therefore increase a morale in the home with a mother who is productive. I wouldn't say this is better though. Yes we hear children who are inspired by their hardworking mother to do better and succeed, but that is not the status quo. Women working jobs that are not conducive to raising a family. All types of hours, shifts, and even types of jobs potentially can damage the health of the mother and that of the family. If these “opportunities” where geared to the betterment of the quality of the family, I would say it is a win, but due the the state of the single family I can’t say this is “better”.

The things that have changed or gotten worse….women working harder and parenting becoming a sport. I am not sure what type of women this article was meant for, but every woman that I know works hard and more importantly finds a way to make the hard work she does pay off. We will not see the changes that were listed in number 3, until we become a socialist economy that is concerned about the state of the nation as oppose to the individual. And as far as parenting being made a sport, how is that bad. Who are the athletes that are successful in their sport. They are the ones who has done the research years before they enter into the realm. They get their bodies right, get their minds right, studies have shown those who have been successful when the times comes they are prepared. I would be hard pressed to find one women, including myself, who made such endeavors before having a child. We are so lazy at parenting and raising our children that it is pathetic. Parenting needs to be a sport and rewards and recognition should be given out. What is the true reward of a parent who has prepared a child with the characteristics of God. For some of you, you have looked at your failures in the eyes of your children, and are angry with them for how they are. That is because you never took what was needed to create them and shape them properly or were serious enough to work it like a gold medal and endorsement deal was on the other side.

I have never looked at feminism because I have always viewed it as a negative thing. Something that makes women stick out their chest, tape down their breast, and wear a ***** mentality that they can do what a man can. I am not a man and have no desire to do what he is designed to do. However, this has sparked a thought of how women, in my opinion, should operate in certain realms and how we in our lanes are more powerful than imitating a man any day." ~ X Blu Rayne

Queen Afua, priestess Wellness Center NYC

Roselyn Sanchez seated in white boots

sacred form of a pregnant black woman - Sunshine

MOTHER OF WATERS

Yemaya - Mother of Waters

"In the Beginning there was the Word, and the Word began in Nu, the Womb, the First Primordial Water" Gateway of Sacred Word.
Queen Afua. ♥






PRAISES TO YEYE YEMAYA + THE GREAT MOTHER OF WATER AND HEAVENS (RIA TAKHARU, 8.27.2004)


Mother Yemaya
I rest upon your waters
Fertile Milk of the Heavens
And Womb of the Universe
I am lifted upon your Grace
And Ever-flowing Divinity
Your Abundance of Life
Pours into my every energy portal
Your powerful and vast currents
Direct my Own Heart, Voice, Ears, Cells
Emotion, Intellect and Vision onward
Spiraling into the Circles
of the Highest Light of Creation

Below your Water the Darkness of Creation
Like the Womb of Every Mother
You hold and nurture your Children
Who are Abundant with your Blessings
who tread the Water of Diversity
And Obstacles of the Physical Realm

You, Oh Great Mother of the Universal Oceans
are the Vessel of Cosmic Matter of the Earth
Your Water is constant and cyclical circling over land,
body and seas
You Consume and Cleanse Everything
Because You are the Mother of All Living Things

You send down your Blessings
in the form of vital rain
and mystical morning dew.
It is because of your tears of joy and sadness
we continue to exist on the lands of this Earth
You sprinkle life unto the Unborn with your
Sweet Full Clouds
Our flowers bear fruits and are bountiful at each
new Harvest
It is because of Your fertile liquid smile
that our land is rich with minerals, gems,
seeds, berries, roots, and Rivers
The true Medicine used to heal our Mind,
Bodies and Eternal Spirits.

Oh, Great Mother of Cosmic Oceans
Diving into the bottom of your Water
I release all my fears
Embracing my Own Face
As you wash away my deepest tumultuous emotions,
all that keeps me enslaved on Earth.
My Highest Reflection in You is revealed
Intuitvely in my own Womb center.
It is your Current of Electric Vibration
signaled throughout the Universe that
Forever connects me to that Global Vision
of LIght, Love and Deepest Peace
In Healing and Joy

Oh Great Mother of the Deep Water
You Cleanse each of my bodies
Beneath the Darkness
Beyond one's Vision
Near the layer of Rock
Deeper where Light and Fire
Burn at the Core of your Great Abode.

I Praise You, Oh Great Mother of Earth
And Thank You for sending me Vibrations
In the Form of Visions
To Embrace You, Feel Your Water
and Surrender to Your Divinity.

I know I hold abundance and unity
in your deep blue waters
You are reflected Universe
Your Womb and every Limb
Outstretched over Earth and Gods
You are the Goddess of All Eternity
Reflected in my own Subconscious
Your Jewels of the Moon and Sea
that await me as I surrender to Your Great Healing Water
of the Universe.

I Abundantly give to You in your Praises
With Your Eyes they see your face
around my Neck
And Share in Your Loving Kindness
and Powerful Vastness of Heaven on Earth

Ase Ye Omo Eja ♥

ria.takharu.8.27.04.(wow,this was another "blue/West/Transforming"
magic day (Blue Overtone Monkey
Lunar 5, Kin: 31

I empower in order to play,
Commanding illusion.
I seal the process of magic
With the overtone tone of radiance.
I am guided by the power of self-generation.
Friday, August 27, 2004) DEEP!!! SYNCHRONICITIES ;-)

 — with Curtis Penn.