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For I am the first and the last. I am the honored one and the scorned one. I am the whore and the holy one. I am the wife and the virgin. I am the mother and the daughter. I am the members of my mother. I am the barren one and many are her sons. I am she whose wedding is great, and I have not taken a husband. I am the midwife and she who does not bear. I am the solace of my labor pains. I am the bride and the bridegroom, and it is my husband who begot me. I am the mother of my father and the sister of my husband and he is my offspring. I am the slave of him who prepared me. I am the ruler of my offspring. But he is the one who begot me before the time on a birthday. And he is my offspring in (due) time, and my power is from him. I am the staff of his power in his youth, and he is the rod of my old age. And whatever he wills happens to me. I am the silence that is incomprehensible and the idea whose remembrance is frequent. I am the voice whose sound is manifold and the word whose appearance is multiple. I am the utterance of my name.
From "The Thunder: Perfect Mind"
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Can I get an Amen!
Again, we have one of our "own" disrespecting us and making us look like a caricature the likes of which would have had freedom fighters and womens groups up in arms when used to belittle and deride us who were thought to be inferior.
If Eddie Murphy was not black, none of us would think it was funny at all and that is the problem. Why is it okay for us to create, sing, act or write horrible negative portrayals of ourselves but we want to sue and boycott the same images if the person who created them is white, or some other color?
Are we not being hypocritical?
We helped him and the movie studio who produced this film, make millions of dollars. Most of the people who went to see this film were probably black.
Eddie Murphy is not the only one who needs are prayers, we all need to pray for our people who are in the limelight to have a better self image because their influence on our culture, self image and youngsters is vast and the results are helping to produce another generation of self hating people.
We must all take responsibility for the success of this movie and begin a dialogue in our homes, schools and churches about the images WE are allowing to be shown to the world and that WE are buying.
It is not just this movie, or the lyrics or the books or the videos or the sports figures or actors and singers that we have to look at and demand with our dollars better from, we need to demand better from ourselves.
I personally don't go to the movies or buy music that often for these reasons. I refuse to fund negative, depreciating stereotypical images of people of color. My green stays in my pocket and is spent on things that uplift and reflect who I am.
People use your money wisely, it is powerful and stop funding the hate.
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