(photo by #hotpot)
The first time I found out that the people most affected by the proposed dissolution of affirmative action would be white women, I was confused.
I couldn’t understand how white men in power could undermine and undercut their spouses so callously. But I’ve come to understand that outside of the racism baked into its core, America was also founded as a sexist and patriarchal society which is why the efforts and accomplishments of women are being honored this month – for they too, have overcome much to attain their current status.
But as an African–American male, one who currently makes less than his African–American wife, I can understand now why white men don’t want their wives to earn a higher wage: it’s much easier to emasculate a small–minded person who’s based his manhood on the wrong head.
I can also understand (or maybe “over–stand”) systemic subterfuge that’s been argued by many a black man (educated and otherwise!) which theorizes we’ve been targeted as more prone to socioeconomic demotions to undermine the God-given authority we ought to have in our households which can ultimately destroy our nuclear families’ entire existence; thus, dismantling the African–American community at its roots.
It can be difficult to overcome when we’re relegated to being the “bottom bread” winner in the house and we KNOW that NO ONE wants that little crusty, dusty end of the loaf!:
A Hard Shirker
a.k.a.
Working on Your Nerves
Whether hard at work
Shirking or hardly working,
Loafers work your nerves!
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Loafs of Bred Laziness
Bred from complacence,
No amount of yeast could make a
Lazy loafer rise.
But no matter where we rank with our earnings, it’s important that we continue to work! Not to outearn our spouses necessarily but rather, to sustain our households. So, black men stand up! Rise to the occasion to find the true source of our headship which is Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
– as published in Steel Waters VOLUME I: DUPLicate AuthentICITY:
The Bred Head of the Household
As of recent detection,
Women have had an increase of yeast infections.
Their seeds once leavened have now risen in worth.
Being barefoot and pregnant
Finally gave way to a fair foot to step in…
As they hold corporate shares that put direction
in being driven at work.
What’s arisen in them is a quirk
That’s either least detected or easily infected by jerks.
Some men seem threatened by the
successes of industrious women.
Ladies’ roles have grown from hosting buns in the oven
To budding bread–winners buttering bread for dinner
with their bread and butter by the dozens…
As a sudden growth rolls promotions into
the molds of illustrious women.
To stunt the growth of feminine fermentation,
Affirmative action has been challenged
to further prevent their station.
This clause strips bars against sexual discrimination as well.
African–American citizens
Aren’t the only applicants whose merit as constituents
Scares white men with a sickened glimpse
of limiting this nation’s vast wealth.
Since Bush has been in office,
I’ve found a few stray hairs in the bread box often.
Amongst the Black community,
a common thread has become apparent.
While women take more responsibilities on and aprons off,
The men seem more prone to layoffs…
Which sows chaos shown as she brings
both the bacon AND sausage home –
while his job becomes transparent.
Leavening it flatter than a cheap sole or dime,
Society’s leveling the flattened black man’s ego and pride –
Once labeled unable to provide,
his defense mechanism goes up.
So, though she may make no direct insinuations,
He’ll glimpse fictitious visions of her respect’s attenuation…
Replacing his support with intensely brewed hatred
as jealous systems blow up.
This tension’s equivalent to opening
the oven’s front door
While the baking pastry’s still touchin’ up its form.
The heat released from fiery uproars
isn’t the only booming concern.
Yeast needs a stable environment to rise to the occasion.
So, when that delicate balance is disabled –
the entire event dives into the basement…
As it all falls down hill like when
Lauryn left the Fugees spurned.
The light of her higher gift
overshadowed the rest –
so, the kneaded yeast was compromised.
Her early retirement shouldn’t be
needed to ease the constant strife.
Likewise, financially dominant wives shouldn’t have to sacrifice
success for their husbands’ dignity.
But thanks to resurrected Reaganomics,
Our homes are being subjected to such brazen nonsense…
The raid is constant – it stains our conscience
with the potential to strip it clean.
As it subtly delays our progress
This plot is an amazing process.
It stays subconscious that men MUST
bring the bread to the household.
Yet instead, if we stayed fed not with the amount of rolls,
But rather with what’s read in the clout of scrolls…
We’ll recognize that the Father of He that bled
must be the Head of the household.
For in the new covenant of His Son,
The Transubstantiation of His
flesh is second to none.
The bread that we share as heirs has
an equal manner of distribution.
No one person gets more than the other.
No one person can hoard the pan for another…
For it’s all in the plan of His Wonder –
as evil’s upheaval reigns down like
manna in fistfuls of retribution.
“So they said to Him, What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you? What can you do? Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written: “He gave them bread from heaven to eat.” So Jesus said to them, Amen, amen, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven; My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
– John 6:30–33
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Breakfast Helpmeets
Chaos is sown when
Wives with aprons off bring home
Bacon and sausage.
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The New Leaven
a.k.a.
Sour Dough
Wives who once did no more than bake buns in oven
Can now make more funds than their husbands.
Far more than flaky substance, more husbands are getting sour, though.
If built on a shaky covenant,
Some relationships can’t take such adjustments…
As they quake from crusted disruption –
the bread becomes sourdough.
Rather, the bread that fit mothers make and bring in
Becomes a head trip some brothers bake and shrink in –
Smothered by the bacon she’s makin’ –
his sausage linkage may shrivel a bit.
So as the gristle of his rib belittles and sizzles his strip –
the shrinkage can get dramatic.
Despite the fact that the household’s tender vittles are thick –
his flame’s extinguished his fattened status…
Which threatens the battin’ average he’d established
into a pitiful pitch.
With his league perceived as belittled and stripped –
He’s gonna fuss a lot more.
Caught in the middle of this –
His seeds may get crushed by locked doors
As he shuts down and rots to the core –
detesting the detection of this new leaven.
But that’s where the Bread of Life
must be consumed and communed.
That’s where the Head of Christ’s crux
must be infused and enthused…
So, as immunity improves as the crust balloons –
the blessing’s no longer skewed when viewed from heaven.
“Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
– 1 Corinthians 5:7-8
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