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Overlapping American today with American History --- A Black Life Matters Story
Whom do we have?
People are:
Fearful
Disturbed
Brokenhearted
Blisteringly Angry
Silent
Dismissive
Passerbys
Glad it's not them
Glad it's not them
We are two steps away from Emmett Till....
I have God in this scorching sorrow;
Might not have your
Prayers
for a stranger
Advocacy
against this pain narrative
But I have to believe
God
Is.....for us, for the mourners, the fearful and for me.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/daunte-wright-death-minnesota.html?referringSource=articleShare
Submitted by Alicia Pitterson
#blacklifematters#teaching#American history#black history#duantewright#George Floyd#emmetttill#police brutality#colinkaepernick#liftEveryVoice#conversations on race
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#ConversationOfCare #ConversationsOnRace
#ConversationsForChange #StopAsianHate and #BlackLivesDoMatter #Conflict #difficultconversations
It can be uncomfortable but I am glad for space on difficult conversations. On TikTok there are some honest young folk Americans of Asian heritage speaking to anti-Black narratives. As we stand in hope for non violence and safety for Asians here and across the globe, I pray for people to not forget after the dust settles...that there are places of consideration and mending between our communities. To ignore that is to be positioned as receiver of mercy and respect while temporarily caring about anti Black harm whether it be from various Asian communities or from the embrace of white supremacy's gift of profiting from said philosophy and oppression.
I can support you and anyone else. Can you publicly and privately do the same for our communities both now and when the smoke clears?
This guy's version is pretty raw but excluding the bad and offensive "comedy" references...there's much to learn here. Thank you for your raw video @WellingtonJuku
#YourTurn.
Your turn is a collective Your turn one by one for healing riffs.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=486517062489960
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#ManofGod #RevDonnieMcClurkin #Gay #LGBTQIA #BlackMan #BlackChristian #Holiness #Pentecostal #TheBurden #MinistryOfTheFreed
Title: What does it profit a church...
That worldly success. It pays the bills' and soothes the soul, sorta.
Question for Christians--you don't have to answer publicly but maybe if you are willing, in your prayer closet:
If Rev Donnie Mcclurkin decided to live his life freely as a gay man and be in a relationship with a man..... Would you no longer listen to his music? Sermons? Accept him and his partner as your siblings in Christ? If he gave up his entire way of serving the church the way he does and followed a ministry call to places where battle weary beat up people LGBTQIA who had their lives cursed by "well meaning mean" Christians in historical mainline and holiness vibrations who throttle and thrive on throttling....would you still have room for him or would your season of connection be over for you?
The answer and the why are yours before God.
Feel free not to respond.
I have always been blessed by Rev Donnie Mcclurkin. I feel sad that he has limited his life for the people who go home to their opposite sex spouses who thank God for him and prefer he never talk about his own desire to go home to a loving partner too. He will have to decide if we cis-het people are enough for his emptiness. I will not let my love for Jesus be dictated by some of the same people who have said kooky things like telling single women that singlehood is a gift from God as they plaster all their engagement or anniversary photos...And the fainting spell frauds of who is allowed to have a baby without marriage and who cannot.
Talk to Jesus.
Full voice for the church and Rev Mcclurkin: Don't lose your soul trying to please church folk and your cash flow. Take your dollars and your singing ministry and trust that God wants you/ him to be healed and whole. That is faith at work. And he needs therapy but all too often in those circles they get counselors who are cray cray and not equipped to be discerning about what he is saying without telling him in his face that his flesh don't matter. Praying that him saying this again is actually him crying out for dialogue because I believe this dude is about to step away from all this isolation in a crowd to live his missing life.
By the way, the sugar analogy is preposterous, dangerous along with a few other things he's said that read as the church browbeating a message that makes them more haughty than always...
#ManofGod#RevDonnieMcClurkin#Gay#LGBTQIA#BlackMan#BlackChristian#Holiness#Pentecostal#TheBurden#MinistryofTheFreed#Church#opinionsofcishetfolk
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Kirk Franklin - How I’m a fan and honest.
My 1st day (last week) and today prayer:
That Kirk Franklin, man of God get his own counseling surrounding his conflict with his son.
Can a parent get angry: Yes
I do not belong to the parent is always right club. I do not belong to the "Hey you don't have to apologize about going off on your son" club surrounding Kirk's apology to fans. I'm a fan but not of that apology or the throngs of people saying we respect your right so your apology isn't needed. It was needed but it was to God and his response choice versus his right to be angry.
Angry Yes. Sin in your anger, that's the point for repair And No one I've seen asked for perfection however correction is a godly tenet usually used haphazardly, even by me.
Humility.
This message is mostly for Christians who have had experience with "inviting Jesus into your heart, life and how to call on him in a time of trouble" -- if that's not your theological practice, feel free to skip by.
This is a message from an imperfect Christian who can also say that Kirk's career is singing about what God can do in and through us.
For the Christian bandwagon: Do you recall this idea that "Let your conversation be seasoned with salt so you know how to answer someone" aka "When you talk do you invite God into your conversation" -- the larger argument for me is that we have as Black folk justified the whipping style of white supremacy’s oppressors - slave owners/Jim Crow et al and revamped the language and actions culturally but they are tied to hating Black people. And 20 plus years of wrestling with your kid can make a parent lose their cool and or their mind. Yes that is so true. Kirk came out for damage control. I respect that initial comment. I was thrown that he didn't say: I was mad as hell at my son but in retrospect I regret using that language against my son and in front of you all. He apologized to his fans. Not his son. The apology to his son is not an act of erasing the real harm and disrespect his son exhibited per the action of publicizing it but the response of how we respond when extremely and rightfully pissed off. Do we as Christians and I'm Talking only to imperfect Christians like myself: curse out toxic family members and employers and employees and colleagues and friends who we have 20 plus years of community with? If yes, how is that working? New boundaries? Apologies on how anger was expressed?
Like I said when I first heard it. Kirk nor I or anyone else can fully tell our stories or control the behavior of toxic people in our family who we want the best for but they can't see our point of view, love or sorrow. We can get personal counseling for ourselves and not necessarily a family friend or yes person. Parents need counseling even for adult relationships with their offspring because it begins with how we respond and how we want to be sane and safe even if our family member never gets it or respects us. Healthy boundaries including cutting off his son and giving him up to God in prayer is a hard but sometimes necessary sacrifice. I am a Kirk Franklin fan but above all a fan of safety for people and I hold God foremost in my imperfect life above folk and because I believe God is accessible for people who believe God can guide them through their valleys, highs and in betweens. Jeremiah 33:3 Call on God and He will answer you and tell you great and wonderful things you did not know. Prayers up for Kirk. Prayers up for Kerrion. Safety for all.
I will not embrace the rationalization of abuse and or "refined" corporal punishment and I will also say that I have several moments in own personal story of language use and popping my kids.
I also grew up with parents where my dad hit twice in my entire life 7&13; I mostly got talked to ALOT by mom but I had some of the traditional strap, brush, pop across the legs but nothing brutalizing in retrospect. When I hear some of the more violent stories I cringe even my own mistakes of what raising make children encompassed in the 80s-to adulthood.
I've had to apologize to many people for my word delivery, actions. I've had to say I lost my cool because what took place infuriated me and while the anger is real my actions needed to bring my points forward without violence in my presentation. There's one size fits most versus all. The work is for Christians who believe like my earlier description and "work out their salvation with trembling and reverence" to God as a small light of representative love work the bible subscribes and invites us to do.
Confess our sins one to another...
For God so loved the world...
He came to save the world not condemn it...
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Physician heal thyself
Passenger put your mask (God) on first before helping the person seated next to you...
It's not easy to parent: celebrity, Christian or not.
#kirkfranklin#parenting#apologies#blackfamily#celebrity#Christian#anger#imperfection#fans#Christian music#mental health#Christian witness#counseling services#willingness#humility#Blackman
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Sacred Grief
Normalizing grief. Death and Dying.
Sacred thoughts.
This video and the evolution of this personal narrative. The video is good food.
Discovery
I don't know when the switch came on for me when the experience of coming alongside someone as their life shifted from no more options to the road to hospice or pending death or in some cases immediate experience of death before me.
The last two being with both my husband as well as my father immediately dying before me (2013 & 2020)...was other worldly shock.
However something supernatural clicked for me with in my mid 20s. Prior to that the most excruciating sorrow came when I learned of 3 deaths in a row when I was a teenager - all beautiful people (ages 19-25; great families great people) all innocent. It was blisteringly painful to experience as a friend and froze me in fear (consider the ache of the families - beyond my imagination). I still hold the gift of their beautiful spirit tucked in my gratitude chest in my mind. Two of the three were childhood friends. Third a church friend of a friend.
#Listening to this 3 minute #video below I wished had someone to say these things as fear and grief nearly suffocated me.
That experience with friends differed from an earlier incident within my own family. When my paternal grandmother died, shock, bewilderment and fear came in uninvited.
It was a different kind of stunned experience as an adolescent. The process was debilitating because what do you know as a kid? A 1970s kid about sudden death?
How death shaped me.
However with my paternal grandmother it was my first experience of the transition from full shock sadness (she died in the hospital) to finding a space divinely appointed by God to allow all my best memory joy, learnings, her voice, us on her Harlem sofa, or at the supermarket, church, walking down the street, bus outings out of state, family events and the stoop and the stories and the old wives tales and food, her scents of love, our movie critiques and the late late late show, so many reams of stories--that deposit did not, could not and would not leave at her burial but lives in me. I loved her so much and even though she had 8 grandchildren and I was 3rd on the charts, she always made me feel like my presence need not ever feel like a competition among her grandchildren. Grandma Miller died when I was a new wife and mother. Seeing her in the casket, something clicked and really reverberated that who she is to me will always resonate a sacred bond death couldn't touch.
My grandmothers and my MOTHER are some of the most sacred people to have ever touched my life. I don't write alot about them and it's almost like this treasure I hold as my own. Anything good in me has its roots, water and feed from God's love and instruction poured out like grace on me. I still only tell droplets of the sacred things my heart holds about my mother. Almost 7 yrs later after her death and I still hold her in ways like my sisters--uniquely our mother whom we shared and yet holding details specifically important to our connection with her love. We were very fortunate to have had her physically and these sacred touches.
These love vibrations differs in many ways from my always preaching "where's the justice" narrative. But in many ways justice is love.
It is also extremely important to mention the roles of aunts and cousins and the love/sorrow impact. As those important people who helped shaped who we are left this earth faster than we ever imagined, leaving us not always vocalizing the swirls of no echoing against the announcement and acceptance, reluctant acceptance of reality...I glean from their impact and thank God for the harvest of love.
I recently experienced being in the presence of a dear family less than 2 weeks ago. Some of the most profound conversations are found in silence, prayer, songs and appreciation. Being hospital bedside in fellowship my cousin allowed a supernatural presence of God's love family connection and even staff.
My cousin was a beautiful human and I saw her beauty that no hospital setting could snatch. Her face poised and beautiful. Learning about someone near death is hard, showing up is not just a physical act, it's the pause to remember, to mourn, to celebrate how these people we loved, to thank them for allowing fellowship with them. To embrace what was admired; long, short, tumultuous or hilarious; and/or great, memorable combinations of connections and allowing with help (professional secular or spiritual) to guide/support/ discover how this lets me and others embrace how we can nurture these bonds even after their death(s). I will add that I still remember many of the named and unnamed people I've lost on a regular basis. A former coworker friend revolutionary funny deeply Christian (TG) and an actress touched my life in such a profound way. It wasn't always an easy work friendship but the gems I got from her still shine. I can't pass 125st or civil rights without thinking of her. Another dear friend RC who loved the Lord who is smiling from heaven I'm sure as her daughter and son in law lead a Florida church, a testimony of the fruit of God's love creating opportunities to begin ministry.
My mother
However my most profound connection is my mother's wise words every single day rise up to remind me. I experience such profound amazement of how tied I am to her care and the knowing "rest & energy" that provides.
Death couldn't steal that.
Thank you God, Son and Holy Spirit.
I have this need to not bypass the topic of grief by placating in avoidance lots of super happy posts. I leave that for the people who grieve offline, differently or saturate themselves with avoidance on this topic. We are all at different stages and places and state that to say our lives differ and no shame is implied or applied.
Make room for discomfort or uncomfortable people. There's healing work possibilities in these broken places.
I do not nor did not feel sadness, melancholy writing this piece. I felt compelled to write it as a reminder to not let Death's sting be your anchor or mine but a road to revitalize the very best thank you's and non shaming of discussing morbid topics. It gets a little trickier adding scriptures (out of context) like: "Let the dead bury the dead" or "Forget what was behind because something new is ahead" -- which can act as a substitution for silencing the bereaved, the stuck and the depressed.
We can move on and still honor the contributions of the past.
Grief processing can uniquely provide hope.
Peace, Alicia
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#ConnectionsOfCare #BeMajestic #HarryAndMeghanAndMore
While the world still turns, I want to pause and say that yet another lesson of faith, race, racism, class, colorism and exclusion has caused more people to pay attention. Yes there are other stories that are valuable and ignored, this saddens me and doesn’t have to be.
Most decent people like to know if something unkind or unfair is fixable, why isn’t it fixed? The story of Harry and Meghan began long before either one really knew. Like many people in crisis of faith, sometimes that first No is frightening and dangerous. The problems of fulfilling roles that are ill-fitted for joy is that it can sap folks’ hope.
Any person who said yes to a situation that continues to drain them can resonate with the idea and act of saying: I both want and need to do something different and differently. Last year many people (self included) suffered immensely through 2020 and experienced the death of something or someone/many someones and close connections..even the erasure of things we took for granted like chatting and hugging one another without trepidation.
For me, I need to see signs of winning happen to and for people dismissed because they are biracial (Black enough for some not Black enough for others) or the youngest or not following protocols of expectations just so other people get to approve of how two grown people live. I needed and need conversations that have ears with with warm hearts attached—to empathize with the feelings of Black Women without diluting the experience of Biracial women who may not fully understand or ever knew to desire how race and color impact perception, privilege and even feelings of isolation or feeling ill-fitted for their child and adult experiences. A person doesn’t choose their parents at birth. They live in the world they know until that world brings about a situation/s to have them reconsider, renounce or find renewal through new insight. Willingness can help the willing.
Meghan and I share the fact that we both were blessed to have a Black mother. The other things are unsimilar except the right and desire to have our sanity and call out toxicity in any form even amongst people who we thought or hoped cared for our safety and existence.
I will add that not only are there people who are racist and white who vibe hatred, there’s aloofness, extreme unkindness, hatred and the mimicking of white supremacy behavior by Black and Brown people which vibes clearly anti Blackness. Many have start out in the language of wokeness but despise interracial relationships, Black women and Black women who are considered visually ambiguous or easy to be festishized because of light complexion and associated with exoticism are either pressed to prove their Black or other ethnic value while remembering their white or higher honored ethnic identity (There’s a scale. It says things like: We’re the bi-product of two or more cultures and there’s a designation I must lift up as exceptional when I need to make a power move) - Acceptance, deception and rejection are some uncomfortable family members and mirror partners.
If I add trans women, that spins into yet another dismissive and chronicled hatefest (even as current as today on the Ebony Magazine fb page I read an article that I confess sounded totally made up to create an atmosphere of hate surrounding a woman who confessed she was born genetically male but in a dilemma that her husband of four years wanting children but not knowing she couldn’t bare children because she didn’t share her origin story — the kinds of vitriol there was frightening). On the flip side, a wonderful promotion of a Black person to host a show on BET becoming the first Trans non binary host, was a reminder that everyday people have find their way to one location on their hope road. There’s a long story of people in the LGBTQIA love circle who know the pain of harm and exclusion. I would be remiss to not mention their value. I do not speak for for this community but I hold them in respect as I learn more about God sized love for neighbors and strangers.
There’s so much we can do to make life better by remembering that people who are historically in danger and heartbreak and injustice—as applicable - they/we deserve the same joy especially if it only requires you and I to not be intentional harmful, ignorant and or dismissive.
Like Barbara Streisand’s song classic: People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.
That’s helpful to remember and act upon: The idea that people are valuable, and royal by design.
#GodsMasterpieces Humanity in many more ways than noted above are majestically connected.
- Alicia M Pitterson
#connectionsofcare#harry and meghan#meghanmarkle#blackwomen#biracial#racism#colorism#majestic#royalty#Great Britain#lgbtqia#people need people#intraculturaldilemma#white supremacy#ethnic criticism#theimpactofcolorism#hate#empathy#willingness#lessons#life lessons#hope#faith#love
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Title: Texas Ice Power Catastrophe and the music reminder of Barbara Streisand
Ideas: PeopleWhoNeedPeople inTexas during ColdWeather Power Castrophe and enduring hope
#Texas
People show either their generosity, vulnerability or disconnection in crisis. I'm so glad that it's been regular and business people rising to help each not the major political players showing their disconnection to caring for the people they've been elected to serve.
BIG SHOUT-OUT to the PEOPLE who did good by each other, people who prayed/wished them well, and all the people who came through in some form to help, show they cared about Texans impacted in this power outage/awful week of snow, ice, frigid temperature nightmare/ crisis. This business like so many: Dominos, Mattress Mack, FireFighters, Hospitals providing room for employees to be safe and serve...is #WhatGoodPeopleDo. Special prayers for the employees of ERCOT who are continuing to bring power back to affected areas specifically field workers.
Barbara Streisand’s classic: People Who Need People are indeed the luckiest people in the world.
Be lucky Texas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/02/19/texas-heb-lost-power/?fbclid=IwAR3fyrJfjs9YqlOpO-AF2ehKSUXBZvDx161yNW1UAuRYakTHJs0zYa0iIHY
https://youtu.be/AWX_LO84UgY
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#beautifulperson007#PeopleWhoNeedPeople#RegularPeople#HEB#TexasHospitals#MattressMack#Dominos#ERCOT#February2021#snowuary2021#generosity#neighbors#love
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https://www.tmz.com/2021/02/19/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-file-for-divorce/?fbclid=IwAR1WOFylNt2OxJRf6FVrFwRlMJoy2y9lQRRWHBIQgwv2hLWayTJxWm8Lm-k
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Title: HopefulJourneysFamilyKardashianWest and divorce
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#KimKardashian #TheGiftOfLove #Divorce
I'm probably one of the few people who likes Kim Kardashian #publicly (in my network). I think she is a smart businessperson, seems to be a loving mother and just human with the foibles imperfect humans have. She's built an empire and I don't disagree with the argument about cultural appropriation and income gain. There's always been a market for wrongdoing in every age and that doesn't excuse her route but I hold that up in the light of all the industries that have been doing that since industries rooted themselves on Native American land. If we used that same energy on Wall Street bigwigs maybe we'd chip at the strongholds and pull coins tightly held by the purse strings of capitalism, I digress.
Many women (including myself) have been groomed to be married and have children (not by my parents, per se but by societal expectations) so Kim and Kanye marrying was their choice. They like other couples benefitted from each other. Married couples or formerly connected folks, isn't it true: When it was at it's best, it was wonderful.
Who doesn't make mistakes in their partnership?
Divorce is a sensitive subject for many. I believe it is necessary where toxicity has a place to grow and the opportunity to reduce or get rid of it has become unsuccessful thus making the love contract nearly impossible to keep without a feeling of loathing, vindictiveness, martyrdom and other harm models for themselves and their circles most vulnerable: children.
I pray for this family to get to the place where dad is healed and co parenting is healthy and safe as they process their new norm and the divorce becomes a reality.
Prayers up. I'm not asking anyone who doesn't like this couple to be interested.
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Mental illness is a very difficult journey and adding celebrity and money unfortunately can't usurp the will of an adult who has the right to remain free versus mandated to hospitalization and whatever applicable post script. The steps to mandate him getting counseling requires lots of criteria to be proven in court or the immediate action that may or may not come as a result of direct violence, thwarted violence towards themselves or others, for example. State to state has various laws we know that make it even more problematic for family to get their loved ones the assessment, treatment and long term commitment to living successfully with mental illness diagnosis. Many people function quite well under such care. They love, work, pay taxes every day. I pray healing for all involved.
The gift of love is to figure out what looks like surrendering to establishing or refreshing the interior care work that allows smiling to flow from the heart unrestricted.
In the words of Polonius from Shakespeare’s Hamlet: To thine own self be true.
#kim kardashain west#beautifulperson007#giftoflove#divorce#tothineownselfbetrue#mental health#prayer#celebrities#kanye west#onlookers#polonius#Shakespeare#hamlet
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#TessicaBrown #GorillaGlue
The help and haunting of social media:Exactly what is Tessica Brown’s desire?
It has been learned that Tessica ca Brown, Baton Rouge, Louisiana has begun a type of brand awareness campaign as a result of the infamy tied to her Gorilla Glue use as a substitution for hair care product.
Regardless of whether it was intentional or not, the journey has drawn national attention from social media to network news in the USA and beyond.
Ms. Brown is reported to have endorsed a tshirt/hoodie apparel opportunity to bank roll her painful (lemons to lemonade story).
An interesting interview with MJ (*see link) discussed her concerns about not wanting people to think bad about her. The advice the female interviewer gave was profound: Do not miss the gifts that are appearing before you as a result of this mishap. People will always speak for or against you.
The following day: Great news!
Tessica had the toxic glue removed from her hair in a 4 hour procedure in Beverly Hills, CA by Dr Michael Obengo, a Ghanaian-American plastic surgeon and chemist who formulated a remedy thus rescuing and saving Ms. Brown’s hair.
This was an answer to her request.
Social media does what it do: lift or bash being the most popular positions of viewers. Those comments.....
Maybe Ms. Brown should take a break.
Positioning herself there can be self defeating and almost like she is punishing herself on purpose. Maybe way deep down any unworthiness pre-Gorilla glue and after the strange mishap, confusion or outright desperate attempt to lay that hair in place, Ms. Brown is still haunted. The self perpetuating vibe of "I'm stupid" is on display and many people can't or won't see that possibility because we've been trained as a society to look for no way out for Black people and particularly Black women. The degradation of Black women in America in this case and many others before is better than-ism food consumption of many naysayers and helps people be reminded "Thank God I'm not that bad" -- I truly believe that is why reality TV is so lucrative. And seeing examples of wealth by people of many ethnic identities is prominent. People still hate The Kardashians as they count their millions to billions in revenue from their fanbase even with a huge network of people who can't stand them. If Terrica Brown rides that rollercoaster I pray for her sanity. I remember her mother told her stop reading the comments before she had the 4 hour procedure to remove those toxins from her head. Unless she gave her $ to some philanthropic endeavor, she will always have a following of people who detest her. The self inflicting/or when non sexual masochistic tendencies show up in people there's often unseen scars, everytime they go public. Time will tell if this matches Tessica Brown. Her decisions that tie to profit and attention puts her at the possibility of spiritual, mental and physical distress. I truly hope she gets counseling, her hair is better but her "head and heart" maybe not so much. People who make themselves the butt of ridicule often have low self esteem and self worth. I've seen her from the position of someone operating from distraction (like many of us) and publicized her distress. She took the risk. Every day someone dies because they don't take the risk. They keep their sorrow, low self worth, their mania and feeling of being ridiculed to the bottle, to drugs, to a bad relationship, to gangs and other wrong crowds, to prison, to bad religious affiliation and experiences and sometimes to forfeiting life on earth.
Do we care about women? And in this case: A Black woman?
Even amongst the Christian ideals and reminders: Stones still get tossed by the righteous ones upon the "Tessica Browns or The Kardashians" -- these folk we see as sinful or unworthy.
And if the Christ followers can do that with ease, I hold no surprise about the ease to point out whatever superficial actions they take to make themselves gain popularity, ducats and brand awareness. Many popular people appear happy and the honest ones tell us part of their story.
Nothing new under the Sun/Son. Every generation will see something or someone worthy or unworthy; wise or unwise. I remain praying she gets counseling for this experience and any backstory issues that I don't need to know but I hope if there's some underlying issues, she can commit to professional licensed quality counseling for as long as needed.
I’m not certain of Terrica Brown’s deeper needs and or desires. I don’t know her. My words are speculative and I have been advocating for her win(s).
Maybe it’s because she is a woman, a Black American woman. Maybe it’s because the roots of Black hate training came from the soil and structures of white supremacy that taught Black is only good when it’s in the hands of white people and white decision makers in sync to profit and maintain profit from the degradation of Black people. Maybe it’s because colorism is the cheese against the grilled cheese and ham sandwich we’ve been eating forever in American history. The meat has always been training Black people to mimic white peoples’ systems of hate by us replicating warning to our Black people. Things like “I beat you before the cops aka the white man, the white system beats you”.....this meat has always been on the menu.
People are still carnivores in this society of over eaters filling their own emptiness by chewing up the errors of others and calling the meal and themselves both: great.
Help me eat less meat Lord.
Sources: https://www.meliciashae.com/
https://fb.watch/3EU_5fG95A/ re:Interview with MJ and Tessica Brown
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Gorilla Glue Adhesive and the stickiness of beauty norms.
#TessicaBrown
#GorillaGlueAdhesive and the larger wonders of why?
Tessica Brown, Louisiana used this product when her hairspray ran out.
PAUSE.
Opinion:Mine
What makes any woman decide to do one more thing in an effort to enhance her look? Tessica Brown, 40 of Baton Rouge,LA realized her hairspray ran out and decided to use Gorilla Glue to hold her hair in place. It would cost her a lot of stress. The incident happened in January 2021 but Miss Brown shared her story on Instagram social media platform after going to the hospital and finding herself unable to endure the pain she was experiencing when emergency room medical personnel attempted to remove the adhesive with acetone causing excruciating pain.
Sadly her decision can prove deadly or at least bring the discussion once more on beauty standards in the USA and the Black female/femme experience.
I hope she is in therapy because every time she touches her hair or remembers the moment she realized it might not come off ever, the reminder of how minimal she feels can be compounding. I saw that she had alot of encouragement to help her out of what most of us agree was an unwise decision but I have had the benefit of not having to tell a huge error like that in public. I've been downplayed for irrelevant shite like not knowing a fact everyone else did and I still slept well at night. This is not that. This is "Help, I did something unwise and I am stuck" -- pun not intended but fits.
In desperation she put her error, her shame, her beautiful Black face and body--a Black body we know always comes with shaming outside and inside of Black cultural contexts especially in the USA. Anyhoo the biggest concern for me is the why?
We've been groomed to have eurocentric standards of beauty no matter how many "I love being Black" tshirts we have. Women still have (and particularly Black girls/ Black women) generational wounds of what is defined as beautiful externally. She wanted her hair straight and uncurled. Her choice. I'm thinking when she first did it, she took lots of selfies because it was "white people hair" sleek. I'm thinking she felt pretty. Her error is a larger argument around beauty, lengths people go to for beauty and European beautiful hair ideals. I'm thinking when hair pressing as well as relaxers first came on the scene there was alot of pushback until there was not so much. I still recall people (when I like 7 in the late 1960s) who said this one or that one hair got burnt out messing with those relaxers with lye.
One point I read in her story elsewhere was that they tried to take it out her hair with acetone but it was so extremely painful in the e.r. she went home. Acetone and glue has to be a nightmare. I'm wondering the toxicity levels when it ultimately comes off. I'm wondering about permanent baldness. I'm wondering our skin being our largest organ and the poison from trying to take that crap off entering her system. I'm wondering about her mental state further challenged. I hope she gets relief. I hope someone who treats her like she is valuable helps her to get rid of this nightmare. And hopefully I pray she finds the beauty she wants that's a real keeper is an inside job.
The courage to come forward publicly as a Black woman is not new nor the shaming. She needed and needs help, #praying that happens.
#black women#AmericanBeautyStandards#GorillaGlueAdhesive#blackhistory2021#beautifulperson007#tessica brown#inner beauty#shaming
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#America after Inauguration Day 2021
America will have to be in a new type of police state where all groups who dismissed BLM will now have their own revelations of being under review on a regular. White people in general failed to acknowledge,dismantle, stay steady on the topic of talking and doing something to eradicate racism and the foundation of wealth tied to white supremacy. The suffering for them will increase in what we as Black people living in this American experience have come to know. Until they destroy it, they’ll be no sense of freedom whether going to the supermarket,mall, movies, gym, church or a walk in the park. These nut jobs will be in airports and on cruise ships. We sadly will experience much more terror because it’s been ignored and joked away versus confronted. If the earth swallowed them all at a rally, that might be a deterrent for awhile. It’s going to take some time to deprogram them from their collective cults. Metropolitan police officer Daniel Hodges said that when he was crushed in the door during the insurgency on 1/6/21 the guy who was beating him with the officer’s baton was “foaming” at the mouth.
We’ve been in trouble and now we are all in trouble except Black people have had continued practice in being under scrutiny and harm possibilities and practice in America
#AmericanInsurgents
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/01/15/officer-crushed-capitol-riot-speaks-out-ac360-sot-vpx.cnn?fbclid=IwAR2Tyad60Fw3FVRkh5wVwmTJ6e092F0tHZPb-ShImdKK-9i3SbzIV1KKmCg
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