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Race
Black History Month
I am so thankful for black history month. Every year I share black history facts and always end up finding out new things. There is so much that we wasn’t taught in school.
Does anyone know anything about what happened on March 2, 1955? Nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man someone else did her name was Claudette Colvin. I know right in school we were always taught about Rosa Parks. When I think about all the history that wasn’t taught in school it really gets me to thinking.
Claudette Colvin was a 15 year old high school student who refused to give her bus seat up to a white person. There was quite a few black women who refused to give up their seat but they were fined instead of jailed. On March 2, 1955 a bus driver ordered Colvin to get out of her seat she refused and was arrested by two police officers.
Most people including myself don’t know the role that Colvin played in the bus boycotts. Colvin was one of four women who challenged the law. Colvin case overturned the bus segregation laws in Montgomery and Alabama.
Colvin was asked why was her story not talked about she felt it was because her community shunned her after her arrest and once she became pregnant. Colvin felt that the civil rights leader felt that she was an inappropriate symbol for the test case. Colvin spoke of the colorism within the black race how Rosa Parks had “the look” her skin texture and good hair was the kind that people associated with middle class. Rosa Parks was a married woman and Colvin was a pregnant teen. Colvin felt that Rosa Parks was used because civil rights leaders felt that she would be a better icon.
When I found out about Claudette Colvin story I wasn’t sure who I should be more upset with. Yes there was segregation but what about the way that Colvin was treated by her own people? What about the things she endured because she was a pregnant teen? Who’s responsible for the colorism that took place? Who is responsible for not allowing Colvin story to make it in to the history books?
I so enjoy black history month and I do not have anything against Martin Luther King Jr or Rosa Parks I just think we need to be taught about history in it’s entirety. There was a lot of women and teens who were making a stand in the segregation situations not just middle aged men in suits.

Happy Birthday MLK
Happy Birthday to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Today is more than just a day off from work. I want to thank Dr. King for helping to make civil rights possible. I appreciate everything that you have done and I will never take it for granted. You fought to make your dream come true. Thank you for getting us to love one another in spite of our color.Yes we still have a longs to go because of people with their heart issues regardless I just want to thank you. I won’t complain instead I will do my part to help enforce change in a positive way.
John 13:34 – A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Please Stop
I’m not complaining just voicing how it’s hard to be a Christian that’s a black woman. With all the police brutality that’s been going on against young black men there has been a lot of hostility. When I voice how I feel I get attacked and I’m okay with that. I get called names and made to feel as if I am betraying my race. I’m a Christian first I speak love and peace. I spread positive messages because let’s face it anything that negative like riots and violence gets us no way. The point that I am making is bring up past events is meaningless if they are not accompanied with positive resolutions. Everyone is shouting and no one is listening. White people along with other races have been victims of police brutality as well. One case of police brutality is too much it has to stop.

Praying for all seven continents and every nationality. The violence needs to end. If we all pull together to we can make a difference it can happen in a major way. I know that we can do it.
A Nightmare Dance
Would someone please tell me what’s going on? What’s going on within the black community? I know what you are thinking what is Tameeka talking about now? I’m talking about the way women are viewed and treated especially black women. Let’s be honest about how hip hop degrades black women with names like whores and of course the “B” word. Whether we want to admit it or not music is very powerful. I’m so tired of artist if we want to call some of them that not wanting to be held accountable for the effect of the music that their music causes but want their bank account to reflect it. I mean what kind of world are we living in where three words gets a person killed. Now before anyone gets bent out of shape about what I am writing about I am a black woman who is the mother of two sons. I’m making sure that my sons respect allllllll women of every race. No one has the right to touch a woman without her consent no means no so get over it. I don’t care exactly how a woman says it how should a woman respond to disrespect? “Excuse me even though you are grinding on my body without my permission could you please stop? “Please don’t shoot. Please don’t curse me out. Are we saying that a woman has to live in fear if she rejects a man? Sad to say I believe most women have a story to share about the way some men behave when they are rejected. Some men who are rejected will curse a woman out. Some men will call a woman names. Some men will lie and start rumors allllll because they got their feelings hurt. Look real men accepts rejection and walks away I just want to make that clear. Anyone who feels differently I’ll pray for you.
There’s a story that I just heard about it’s about a young beautiful college student her name was Tiarah Poyau. She was dancing on a dance floor when a guy name Reginald Morse was grinding on her without her consent. This young woman said three words “Get off me” and was shot in the eye behind her body. Two young lives are gone what’s going on? Now I am not saying that all women haven’t been disrespected I just feel that something is terribly wrong when a woman can’t say no. There is something wrong in the black community. Where are the black lives matter voices? I’m just hearing about this story. Where is the outrage? One’s things for certain something has got to change.
The mindset that some people have towards women things like a woman is “asking for it” based on how she dresses. There are many stories where women have been raped and do you know what’s scary? Some women are afraid to report what happened out of fear of how they will be treated. It’s just isn’t right. Our bodies are our temples it’s our choice of who we choose to allow to touch it. I don’t care who the women are, how she dresses, what size she is or what rumors that you may have heard no means no lose the ego. Go take a stroll until you find a woman that will fulfill your desires. What one person won’t do another one will so go find them. We have to do better.
Being A Black Woman
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We Are
I want to take a second to mention
Before I begin expressing
My affection for my
Beautiful black sisters
I am not a person
Who promotes division
Uplifting others
Is always my intentions
To spread positive messages
My sisters and I
Marches to the beat
Of a different drum
Some say that we are
Rude or have bad attitudes
But my dude that’s
The furthest from the truth
We are radiant
We are independent
We are grounded
We are strong
Yet we are also delicate
It’s part of being feminine
We do what we can
All by ourselves
Even if we needed help
We don’t stress
We are loyal
We are true
We sacrifice daily
For our beautiful babies
We endure pain
We don’t allow it
To turn inward
We don’t allow things to change us
Even though it should have
Drove us crazy
We love hard
We don’t give up
We are beautiful
We are courageous
We are captivating
Sometimes we can be complex
Certain situations
Can make us perplexed
If we get upset
We can’t stress it
For longer than a minute
Doing that is whack
Haven’t you heard the saying
That black don’t crack
Stress has to take a seat
Like several of them
Yes we are human
But that’s the extent of it
Even though there’s
Information that’s not accurate
Floating about meant to oppress us
We don’t answer to it
We don’t claim it
We know who we are
We are compassionate
We practice unity
We are women of substance
We have powerful spirits
We nurture intensely
Our goal is to
Accomplish positivity
Hopefully it’s passed
Down from generation to generation
What a feeling of gratification
We march to the beat of a
Different drum
And we answer to no one
Except for God Almighty
In heaven we are a part
Of the rhythm nation
Woot Woot!!
My My My Time has flown by. September 6th will make it six months since I have started my blog. I am pretty proud of everything that I have accomplished and there will be more much more. So far I stuck by what I have planned to do I’ve shared my love for Christ, my love for my sons, poetry, music, the Dallas Cowboys, made podcasts the list just goes on. I enjoy writing and I enjoy the freedom of expressing myself. I don’t know about anyone else but when I can’t express myself freely I feel like I’m suffocating. I have always been a strong supporter of people loving others according to God’s will of course. Interracial dating to me is a beautiful thing and I truly believe that God has someone special for us all. As I have shared I have always been attracted to white men for longs as I can remember. Growing up I was taught that that one person isn’t for everyone but that there is somebody for everybody. My mother only concerns was for me to be happy. She didn’t want to see me get hurt. A person can get hurt regardless of the color of their skin. While I always say that love has no color I simply cannot deny my attraction to white men. Recently I’ve become bold about how I feel and I am not alone. There are many black women who are dating and marrying outside of their race. Time are changing and people are loving whomever they choose to. Anyway in the future I do plan on staying on course as well as discussing a lot more things. Here’s to six more months!!! Woot to the Woot! Woot Woot!!
Single Black Mom
Growing up I always told myself
That I would not be a single parent
Raising kids without help
I always felt
That life belonged to someone else
There’s no lucky charms
It’s time to ring the alarm
What’s going on in the
Black community
Making it seem like being
A single black mom
Is an awesome thing as if
Being a struggling mother is a way
To earn stripes
Being a single parent
Doing it all alone
Is not right
It’s quite pathetic
Some of this black fathers
Don’t even care enough
To co-parent
They like to forget
Or assume that paying
Child support will make up for it
This situation is a huge epidemic
One that no one should mimic
It isn’t a lifestyle
That’s glamorise
Say what you want about me
It won’t change how I feel
A stable upbringing should
Always be within our sight
Some of us are just too
Blind to see
I was once like other people too
Now I look back and think
What did I do
To end up with a baby father
Like you
Like a song on the radio
I listened to your tune
Now I am here looking like a fool
Man I wish that I had the analogy
Of no wedding no wound
Had I had it
It would have giving me more
Time to get to know you
I wished that my old schooled ways
Had of saved me from
What I am going through today
My sons would have been saved
From the typical black
Single parent home
It’s so wrong for my sons
To grow up withdrawn
I wished that only I
Could bare this burden alone
Still this is the life that I chose
My choices I own
Allowing my fleshy goals
To take control
Thankful for allowing Christ
To help me to be reborn
And I have learned to never
Put a deadline
On God’s time
For He has no limits
That sometimes it’s not
Always the things that we planned
That are the best
But in fact it’s the things
That are not planned
Which are the true miracles
Not trying to get all spiritual
But God’s way is the best way
For sure
So I will embrace
What God has on the way
Being a single mom
Isn’t the end
But the beginning
Of what God has
For my family and me
Thank You God All Almighty
A Shade of Black
Tameeka is about to go there. Yes I am about to talk about colorism in the black community. I was watching a video on YouTube and it was about a website called Smoochr. The website is a place that allows people to filter the kind of people that they want. A person get to choose based on skin shade, size of lips, hair type etc. Hmmmmmm definitely not something that I will be checking out. As many know I’m about love and never about division. God made us all different but beautiful we are to embrace our differences not use them as a way to divide. Anyway I know some people may debate with me about who started colorism okay hundreds of years ago some of the white people did it fine and dandy. But who keeps the colorism going? The maker of the Smoochr website is a black man. So instead of pulling people together he’s is causing more separation and insecurities of others.

I am black but my shade is brown. I’m what would be considered to be in between dark-skinned and light-skinned. Growing up I never paid attention to shade but I have witnessed dark-skinned people being bullied based on their color as if growing up wasn’t hard enough. It is still very much present today. I have also heard people of a dark skin talk about being insecure and hating their skin color. It’s just horrible and it needs to end. The only test that a paper bag should have is how much weight it can hold. At the end of the day we all check off the box for black regardless of our shade. I don’t care who slams me we must do better. Let’s lift up one another high. Stop hurting one another and let’s heal one another. I get the past but what are we doing now to move forward in a positive way. It’s the only way that change will happen.
