WARNING!! THIS POST COULD LAND ME IN FACEBOOK OR META JAIL!!!

To many, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s appointment is a clear example of affirmative action and she is having her qualifications questioned. But out of the 115 people confirmed to the Supreme Court, 40 of them were never a judge before being put on the SCOTUS. 18 of them never completed law school, and 47 of them never even attended law school. Meanwhile Judge Jackson went to Harvard Law school, was an editor of the Harvard law review, has been a Judge for 9 years, was a criminal defense lawyer and she had 3 federal clerkships including clerking on the SCOTUS. It’s amazing that dozens of the white men on the SCOTUS didn’t even have a law degree; nobody asked about their qualifications, and nobody questioned their rulings or Judgement. But one black lady since 1789 has the potential of being confirmed and suddenly; people are worried about qualifications. These are the same people who will say stuff like “It’s not about race” “I don’t see color”. My hope is that she shakes things up on that bench!

I must opine on this. Everytime an issue comes up with a black woman, I get PTSD. I literally get anxiety. If any of you experienced life in the seventies, you know that we were the work force. Do you know that I worked from the age of 11 because the powers that be did not care how old black people were, they just wanted us to work. CHEK YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY RECORD.

As I sit here this morning, I saw no record of my work at Elliott Restaurant, Edna’s Restaurant and those motels in Silver Springs that we had to work. I did not even get a social security number until 1970.

The older ladies in the community took us to work with them. Because I had Asthma and could not last in the hot fields with my brothers, I was taken to motels to clean up after nasty rich people. I was one who had to go and serve dinner after the older black women prepared buffets, I served. I was the “short order cook” who cooked burgers, blessings, grill cheeses, etc in the evening. I was that strong black native American girl who had to be a lady before her time. I am sure that Katangi can attest to things her or her family did to make it through those times. I am better because of those trials. When I saw what those “whitemen” did to her, I had a moment. I challenge all sisters and brothers from the seventies who took the brunt of this discrimination and abuse from the late sixties and seventies to share your story publicly. The media controls what gets printed from us. This is our only opportunity to tell the truth. It is our suffering that should inspire these young people to appreciate their opportunities to be better. We dishonor our ancestors who were beat and forced to work and not be compensated their labor, when we stay silent.

How can we expect these children to appreciate the right to vote, to appreciate the right to have the girl or guy of your choice regardless of skin tone? They do not know our struggles.

In the words of David Ruffin and Teddy Pendergrass, teach your children. All of us who say our parents did not show love, do you understand why? They did not receive love. They were not available. Truthfully, how many children of color from the sixties and seventies remember being cuddled by your mom, boobos fixed by your mom? Thanks for asking, we were cuddled by our oldest sibling because our mom was cuddling some white families’ children.

To all of my white friends, my white sisters and brothers, I do not hate you, I love you. What I hate is the idea that we are in 2022 and we as black women still have to be subjected to the “white man’s” wrath.

I hate that my white sisters still allow these men who abused not only black women but white women as well to do this. In the words of Sojourner Truth at Seneca Falls Convention, I paraphrase, we women turned the world upside down once before and we can do it again. How? Thanks for asking, we can do it by coming together, standing together, teaching our boys and girls to respect their moms, to respect their sisters because, we influence them. They need us. God gave us the brains because he knew they would be susceptible to their testosterone. They have no brains. Behind every good man is a great woman. If you want us to stop seeing color, talk to your dads, your granddad and your husband’s. Tell them enough is enough. As Women’s History month comes to a close, I challenge all women, to take back your authority, take back your dignity, fulfill the purpose God gave to you. Support your man if he is in the Will of God, if he is outside of God’s Will, remind him that there is a judgement.

My post may cause me to go to Facebook jail but if I get put in jail for the truth, then, I will wear it as a badge of honor. I am at a stage in my life that I must speak up. I have my grands, great grands, I want to leave a better place for them. I am the senior citizen now, I will not be afraid to speak up for change, I will not be afraid to stand for righteousness, I will not be afraid to cry out for justice in the way our story gets told. I will not be afraid to say my ability to read, to learn is owed to our ancestors who formed an alliance to secretly learn to read and write. Our black ancestors could not have done that without the help of white people. My Caucasian counterparts of the ages did not realize that as their black maids and housekeepers took care of their children, those same children, pure and innocent taught their caretakers and their caretakers children to play together, to share. It is the Masons who formed a bond of brotherhood to hide out in the high halls, built up high to keep out “uncle toms” who would expose them for getting wisdom, learning to read and write. Ketangi, they cannot take your knowledge, they can only seek to degrade your character. God will give you this victory. Remember you stand on the shoulders of your ancestors, do not blow it, do not sell out, go forth and be great in a meek and humble way. You made it, you give us hope, not just because you are black, but because you are a woman.

It is up to the women of this world to stop these men. We can no longer condone the mistreatment of women, regardless of the color of their skin. This is not just a black white issue this is a lack of respect for women by men.

I never heard those men disrespect Clarence Thomas as they did the woman who exposed him.

I never heard them speak to Amy Barrett and use profanity with Amy Barrett, the way, Graham did with Ketangi. You, Ketangi, must have been shielded from the wrath of “white” I say Caucasian men. You handled them calmly but stern. You are a woman of distinction. You are a woman for this time.

I close with Lord, everytime, I say that I am over what happened to me as a woman of color, Satan raise his head to remind me of my past, help me to find peace in the fact that he predestined his future, help me to find peace in the fact that one day the “wicked will cease from troubling me and I will reign with you, if I, could hold on to your powerful hand. Help me and others to accept that our past do not determine our future Lord, help me to never forget where you brought me from. I give thanks to you for choosing me to spread the truth, uncut, unvarnished and unapologetic. I am every woman of that time. Help them Lord to do as I did, I allowed you to adopt me into your royal family. I allowed you to live in me. I allowed you to rescue me from my flesh. I allowed you to make me a bold Queen in your army. I thank you that you chose an imperfect vessel because, you knew I would sacrifice my will to your perfect Will. I thank you that when I fall short, you pick me up and carry me until, I AM ABLE TO STAND AGAIN.

I You to help me to be a mouthpiece for you. I ask that you continue to cover me in your precious blood that I may tell the world of your Kingdom. Lord let me lean on you always in the mighty name of Jesus, Amen. Women no one can steal your joy unless you give them that power. Be a queen, stay true to your womanhood.