Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Black, Beautiful and Blessed


Love your wife without restraint

Fill her tummy, clothe her back,

Do care for her body,

Caress her, fills her desires all the time in your life

It is a present that does honor to the home.

Do not be brutal, care lead your wife better than force.

Her well-being and happiness, that is what she aspires,

There in her heart, that's what she looks for.

Know that you are what fix her in the house, because if you reject her, she is an abyss.

Opens your arms for her to snuggle in, and show your love for her


In the ancient African society not subject to foreign influence, the woman was perceived as the complementary to the man. She was the housewife, the personification of female beauty, a source of stability and wisdom, a creative lover, a sister aware, a spark of eroticism, a caring mother and a future heavenly goddess. The projection of the divine relationship with the man began the principle of representation of the Virgin and Child (NB. representations of Isis suckling her son Horus, the archetypes are representations of the Virgin Mary suckling the infant Jesus) and Trinity: Father, mother, child (later in Western society nomadic father, son and Holy Spirit (the mother has disappeared!).
No work or branch of study was prohibited to women. Thus, in African history there are women doctors (Pesechet), Pharaoh (Hatshepsut), Queen (Nzinga), army chief (Amani Renas), Minister of Foreign Affairs (Tiy), etc. ... The King leads with women who also play the role of advisor (wife, mother). In African religious view, God loves women as much as men. The married couple forms then a spiritual one envelope.
This icon of beauty was celebrated in the past by other people. The Bible provides undeniable proof that black beauty was idealized in the past (eg Song of Songs in the Bible: "I am black and beautiful" or Queen of Saba).




Today ... The black beauty has been depreciated for the following reasons:
Colonization and slavery that have greatly altered the male / female relationships (devaluation of black women perceived at the time as a chattel and a progenitor without family structure fixed)
The foreign cultural influences and dominant in and outside Africa, The changing status of white women in Western societies that accessing jobs rewarding and well paid, become the favorite target of major advertising campaigns (cosmetics, fashion ...), of blockbuster movies (Hollywood) and sociologists who want to see companies grow. As a result, little valued and subject to all the difficulties and discrimination, the black beauty passes gradually into the background and is not valued as highly in the minds clinging to their African essence. It is certain that the value of self is acquired also in the eyes of others. In other words, if the look of black men on black women is sincere, respectful, responsible (socially, economically, family, culturally rewarding ...), and attentive, no doubt that this will help to shine again in the black beauty the world.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Wonder

You say that you love animals
But you cage them
You say you love flowers
But you cut them
So when you say you love me
I'm scared...