Others I saw there irked my spirit to no end. No need to write their names....
....Coonville Was at Queen Aretha Franklin's Homegoing But mercifully Obama wasn't in attendance
........The Coonville at Queen Aretha Franklin's Homegoing didn't let Minister Farrakhan Speak
......Worst, Coonville's Sexism, Misogyny, and Inappropriate Patriarchy Was on full Display at the Queen's Homegoing Celebrations...
...Why were the Black women, sidelined? Black cultural icons, elders such as Blues and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Mavis Staples; the Reverend-Doctor-Pastor, Shirley Caesar; Songwriter Hall of Famer, Valerie Simpson; Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, Cicely Tyson? One or all of these sorts of heavily credentialed Black women in that church could have been in the front center seats, on stage, seated between those men on stage with no problem. How does Michael Eric Dyson get to be placed higher on the social power Aretha podium than any of those regal, queenly women and their accomplishments? Are we still the handmaidens, the Patriarchy's harem multitudes?
Seriously? Playthings in a man's world who don't do right? Objects for entertainment, fetching and carrying purposes only? In August of 2018?
...the awkward Bishop Ellis' groping of Ariana Grande and squeezing her breas t was grossly inappropriate, terrible for her, uncomfortable to witness and another signpost of the continued chauvinism and normalized misogyny, ever-present, in the Abrahamic male cults, their sexism, and religious misogyny not unrelated to the off-center, apartheid seating places for women, designated at the great Matriarch's homegoing service. (See, Pastor Accused of Groping Ariana Grande Apologizes for Being 'Too Friendly'.)
Aretha raised four sons, mostly alone as a single mother, but the sexist Reverend Jasper Williams, declared, while he was delivering her eulogy, that single Black women were incapable of raising sons alone. .... [To read the entire article, go here]
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