Women Put These Between Your Legs and Build Up Your Mind
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Posted By: William Jackson on April 13, 2017 Women Put These Between Your Legs and Build Up Your Mind by William Jackson: Father, Educator, Blogger #MyQuestToTeach Pictures of books located on Photobucket http://s1211.photobucket.com/user/williamd... Books%20About%20and%20By%20Black%20Women/story Placed in a story line The value of reading and joy of literacy can change lives. It has happened with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and others that proclaim education is the key to generational prosperity. Books focusing on women and their achievements are not rare, but available, girls and women are not reading great books about themselves. These books are sitting on bookshelves gathering dust and pages are fading away like the memories of the great writers, storytellers and the information that can motivate, excite and change minds. Chinua Achebe the great Nigerian author of many books that are still popular today has stated that the author has a different agenda than the Emperor. Colonization seeks to keep the people un or under educated so they cannot see that they can do better. As I sift through the fantastic books in my local library here in Jacksonville, Florida, I'm at awe and sorrowed that it seems I'm the only one that previewed the historic content of information dedicated to African Americans. The excitement I feel is overwhelming because I want to share these treasures of stories about wonderful women of color, but it seems no one else is interested. I do not know if it is by design or on accident, either way the stories of lives that have inspired, influenced and empowered are fading away from memory and gather dust on bookshelves not just in Jacksonville Florida, but nationally and globally. Lets me be honest there are few if any left African American book stores in African American neighborhoods because African Americans are not reading as they once did. There is the mental retardation that reading is not valuable so not only economically do we as a people fail, but educationally and culturally as our own history is watered down. Suggestions for daughters/women struggling with personality and self purpose. Be yourself and be authentic. Don't be pressured into sex or other situations that do not benefit you intellectually and educationally. As a father I look forward to my daughter getting married and having children of her own. The upsetting issue is what kind of man will she fall in love with and bear their children. The dating scene for college students is perplexing, dangerous, and challenging for the hopes of getting a good man and even men getting a good wife. Fathers inwardly stress about this and there are T-shirts referencing guns, murder, jail time and even castration if a fathers' daughter is abused, assaulted, "knocked up," or hurt. Men are crazy like that about their daughters. Movies such as "Blood Father" 2016 represents that fathers are not perfect, but mess with their daughters and there is hell to pay. I'm smart enough to know it takes two to make a baby, as a father of a son and daughter, it is hoped and prayed that both parties are responsible in their choices for life time mates and companions. Sex does not last forever, but the value of companionship, conversation and compatibility is vital. I can't tell my children not to have sex because as Nikki Giovanni once said, "that's what young people do, have sex." Edward Waters College 2012 Interviewing Nikki Giovanni at Edward Waters College 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SobIOFAZMk... Parents have to teach their children the consequences of sex not just the potential for STD's or pregnancy, but the emotional and psychological consequences also. Nikki and William https://myquesttoteach.files.wordpress.com... nikki-giovanni-and-william-jackson.jpg Looking at the patterns of teens and college students and even from my observations from my college experiences babies happen from sex. I cannot count how many girls went home during my college years pregnant and no man, no husband and an uncertain future to struggle it alone with a child that the father was happy to help create even if unintentional, but did not want anything to do with it after finding out his seed fertilized an egg. As a divorced parent, I stayed in my children's life, not because of court orders, because I love my children and even though divorced from their mother I did not divorce my kids. I stayed in their lives, supporting beyond child support. I'm not perfect, no parent is, as a parent my fears sometimes as many fathers leave me awake late at night, in prayer about the future of my son and daughter. My son for different reasons being African American male and a college student. A blog for another time. This past Women History's Month there were programs, ceremonies, workshops, entertainment and special events. My contribution as a father is daughters, girls and young women don't be swayed by smooth talking brothers of any color into making a decision based on physical pleasure that is temporary, but could result in life long consequences from pregnancy, a STD, abortion, or other events that may lead to emotional, physical or psychological distress. The older you become the more your past may begin to haunt you and your reliance on salvation turns back to the church and saving your soul, also a blog for another time. Visiting the local library in Jacksonville, Florida a thought came to mind.. "Women Put These Between Your Legs and Build Up Your Mind" to emphasis that before a man gets into bed, women need to get into their heads to understand the relationships and commitment levels. Since the maturity level is sometimes light years separate both need to make sure they are mature enough to be in agreement. NO means NO and a maybe still means NO unless willingly changed to a YES without alcohol, drugs or smooth talking... even then protection needs to be agreed on because as I have taught my son and especially my daughter you don't know how many others that person has claimed or lied that they slept with, but once you do all of you are connected in a physical, emotional and psychological connection that lasts a life time. Sex is a bonding physical action of trading bodily fluids that are absorbed into the body and the meshing of souls in a emotional, physical and psychological embrace. Like the old folks saying, if you lay with dogs long enough you get fleas and ticks. Now you can get more than that, because death maybe laying there waiting on you. There is nothing wrong with being smart, intelligent, creative and innovative for girls and women. There is nothing wrong with wanting the best in life and working for it as a women. Don't ever sell yourself, sell yourself short and use your body for profit, personal or professional gain. People have lost their morality, ethics and personal value because of decisions based on momentary decisions they are struggling with into adulthood. "Fathers Tell Your Daughters to Put These Between Their Legs" is a way for a dialogue of talking about life and the journey all of us must take. Fathers value their daughters, but in that value must also come the understanding that daughters must find their way in life as well. There will be happiness, heartache, loves, un-loves, peace, strife and the continuation of living in a world that can chew you up and spit you out or try to turn you away from the morality of humanity. Fathers be in prayer, stay in prayer and share those prayers with your daughters and sons. We have to take advantage of the youthfulness of our children to teach them when they are young and before we are old. It is easier to shape a young sapling when it can bend with the wind than when it becomes a tree and the roots are dug in and the trunk un-movable. Fathers teach your daughters their mind and their bodies are the most valuable resources they have and to never allow anyone to take advantage of them and use them for someone else's pleasure and purpose. The books below are a journey in lives, a wealth of hidden information and resources. Take the time to visit your local library and even get a library card to check out books for your reading and literacy pleasure. Put something between your legs that will bring value to your life. Knowledge from Nikki Giovanni and her outlook on life and living. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SobIOFAZMk... Pictures of books located on Photobucket http://s1211.photobucket.com/user/williamd... Books%20About%20and%20By%20Black%20Women/story Placed in a story line Resources: Lunch and Learn with Nikki Giovanni https://myquesttoteach.wordpress.com/2015/... Nikki Giovanni at Edward Waters College https://myquesttoteach.wordpress.com/2012/... nikki-giovanni-at-edward-waters-college/ If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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William Jackson
Educational Technology and Social Media Instructor, Edward Waters College South Carolina State University class of 1985 Member Since September 2008 |
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