EXCLUDING WOMEN IS UNNATURAL, BIZARRE
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
Excluding women is unnatural and bizarre.
Women, after all, incubated us all. Most women have also extruded us all.
All of my most successful undertakings have involved women, I now perceive.
Those that were least successful have deliberately excluded women.
As an African American man, I am heir to triple streams of historic female exclusion: Christian, Jewish, Muslim. These cultural apertures have also insinuated government, education, business, law, science.
But being pragmatic and practical, and speaking only for myself, I have found women to be much more tractable, much more perceptible, more motivated, than most men, when it comes to doing the work.
As for me and my house, if success is sought, I must include the women. Excluding them is foolishness.
Searching the annals of civilization, women and men were peers, were pairs, gods and goddesses. They comprised the “Ennead”, primordial African religion. Their sundering has been our sundering. If we are to revive and revisit, those hallowed glory days, rhapsodized by renown poets, historians, hieroglyphics, we would do well to recognize that “a house that is divided against itself cannot stand”; but must fall.
Sirius A has Sirius B. The Nile has the Blue Nile and White Nile and once had a Yellow Nile from Sahara.
Excluding women is unnatural and bizarre. Amen.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
EXCLUDING WOMEN IS UNNATURAL
EXCLUDING WOMEN IS UNNATURAL, BIZARRE
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
Excluding women is unnatural and bizarre.
Women, after all, incubated us all. Most women have also extruded us all.
All of my most successful undertakings have involved women, I now perceive.
Those that were least successful have deliberately excluded women.
As an African American man, I am heir to triple streams of historic female exclusion: Christian, Jewish, Muslim. These cultural apertures have also insinuated government, education, business, law, science.
But being pragmatic and practical, and speaking only for myself, I have found women to be much more tractable, much more perceptible, more motivated, than most men, when it comes to doing the work.
As for me and my house, if success is sought, I must include the women. Excluding them is foolishness.
Searching the annals of civilization, women and men were peers, were pairs, gods and goddesses. They comprised the “Ennead”, primordial African religion. Their sundering has been our sundering. If we are to revive and revisit, those hallowed glory days, rhapsodized by renown poets, historians, hieroglyphics, we would do well to recognize that “a house that is divided against itself cannot stand”; but must fall.
Sirius A has Sirius B. The Nile has the Blue Nile and White Nile and once had a Yellow Nile from Sahara.
Excluding women is unnatural and bizarre. Amen.