OW WHO'S MASTER?
Black woman speaks on teenage motherin�EAD:
the orld of decision? D ci- ren and I don't have no regret, out of hand.
on not of your own live but but -one, I didn't get a chance to Our young people are not
of someone el s? You people give birth to quadruplets. I read having children seeking someone
that have your carrer and your an article by Dr. Ros in The to love them, but rather to lov
hu band and two children. Do Citizen saying that "we par- someone.
not try to make decisions for ents mu t tart pl ying the role You know it's not alway
my life, my life is my own. If of helping our young people to that omeone need to be loved
you want to be married, that is dare to be different!' ell, I but one's life feels empty when
your busine , if you want a ay J as a parent the only thing there's no one to love bac .
career that too i your busine. we can do is show respect, be For example, I have always
If you don't ant but two chil- caring, understanding; and try to had som one to love me, but
dren th t also is your busines . elp out, but they must be that was different when I had
Get out of mine! different becau they are differ- no one to love. So I had child-
By Carol . ood
I've t and heard it all
efore from my man and his
friend . Talking about how the
Honky is till trying to make
lave of them through hardwor
and low-paying jobs hich none
of them will do or have.
And a the wine and reefer
flow freely they trut around
Ii e their anc tor the frican
warriors ready for battle. They
get louder nd angrier about
their situation and how their
freedom and manhood i slo ly
being t en from them.
Th n all th ine and
dope is gone 'fear creep into
their eye and de olation em
to take hold 0 f their very oul.
In de peration he take the
t of our fo d money to buy
more wine and once again for a
few hour they'll b filled with
false strength bo sting how they
will call no man master like their
grandf ther did before them.
Tomorro he'll m in
an apologizing tone why I didn't
try and top him from takin the
food money. But he knows the
an er to th t, my jaw ill
The plight of Bl c omen
and Bl c children i not that of
their own making. It i th wel­
fare system, the church, and the
xism of male chauvini m.
Children h ving childre and
ingle parent-he ded home are
not the cau of poverty. Black
omen h ve been in poverty
ever since thy e b n in the
United States.
All this talk about teen­
ge pregnancy. What's wrong
ith you educ tors out there in
. n't healed yet. He do sn't want
to e the hungered look in his
childr n's faces so he lea es.
I wanna callout to this once
beautiful proud man of mine
plea e! open your eyes before
it's too late and that it is no
longer the white man wh is
master but the alcohol and d pe
now en lave you not by chain
n y ur hand and feet but
omething far wor , an invisible
chain that you cannot ee. It
drive you to bre up your fam­
ily home and i destroying your
own dignity.
It was fa ily and dignity
that got the Back people where
they are today and where they
will be in the future.
It's up to you, my dear, to
step backwards or forewards.
-
hy destroy all that your grand-
father and fathers did and all
tho who have died - just 0
you could be a lave to some­
thing that comes in a bottle and
a little plastic bag? o.
I'm a mother of nine child-
SEPTE BER 12 - 18, 1984 THE CITIZEN PAGE FIFTEEN
EW BUSINESS - G en Parker' the 0 r d m r of th y opened Gewn'
and Variety, located SOO W. Street, B.H. G en, a former model for Lan Bryant,
a pearel tore in Indiana. "I ha been interested in f 0 aU my life and 10
ted eel her reaIOn for opeoin a clothin o. The 0 features clothin
for 12 to 24� and men' liz 28 to 40.
at
ent.
I'm also a single woman and
the claims or accusation pitted
against me for being single is not
at all true. 0 t of us are loving
parents because all we have to
love i our children. The married
woman is a slave to her husband
and the childre is a slave to her.
But in our case we are more
freer with each other and we
don't zap up the time our chil­
dren need from us to give to a
husband.
- She also mentioned in
another place that one of the
reasons for teenage pregnacy is
that young people don't really
know how to respect themselve .
As a once-upon-a-time teen­
ager I can emphatically say that
is a lie and not a matter of facts,
but a thought of conjectures.
She peaks out of concern
for her thoughts but not to the
real problem of young people.
Young people realize their
re p nsibility to their children
and to the community. 0 t
P ople don't know thi becau
they are too busy condemning
them. It is almost too late to
talk about re pect of young
people toaward their' parent ."
Parent g.ot to realize that
they are the one who are
rong. It is through paren tal
neglect that things have gotten
rim all through my teen years.
I then had many persons to love.
ow my life i fulfilled in that
department. It is not our chil-
dren that we must fight, but
rather the sy tern which perpetu-
ate crime and injusticese
against our children. •
In my conclusion I would
like to say this. The real Heaven­
bound people making all the
wrong decisions for the Black
family without confiding in the
individual. We have too many
churche , too many civic organi­
zations, too many dead-beat
program which aren't func­
tioning in the interest of Blac
p ople.
Joan Brown
540 Division, B.H.
OUR CITY
OOr city went through a lot from then to
now
Yet it'll rna e it someway and omeho .
Being mostly Black we're being left un­
heard,
The silence we get is really a nurd.
But pulling together we can stride
Instead of running and trying to hide.
Yes standing together a mu t
Cau when it boils down it's up to u .
To keep our city going on trong
Because we feel he's felt enough rong.
Wouldn't it feel good to liv in lights
And not be afraid to venture at night .
Look out for each other, Is it really hard?
To protect love, and b on your guard.
Our city is already tanding unfair
u we give her more troubles to bare.
So let' help her now and stop m king her
blue
And them you'll know you did your part
too!
By Mary Alli n
Benton Harbor
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