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I started this course immediately after taking a course in US History and US Government.  I preface that because it is interesting how many people refer to the Constitution for our entire country’s foundation as a government.  What people dont refer to is that the document was written entirely for white males who owned property and that is all.  If you were a women you were excluded.  If you didn’t own a home you were excluded.  And so on.  So automatically the document was flawed if you were not in any of those categories.  Of course it was amended to provide for such much much later, but it was not this magnificent document that everyone always adored.  Most white people in this country fail to understand this from a minority point of view still.  Any minority.

When people speak of the Bible it is the same thing.  When the laws for this country were made they related the laws to that same focus group.  It did not encompass those who choose not believe in God, nor those who who believe in a different God not included in the King James version. 

I say that all of that to say this.  When speaking of laws for this country and equality,  there will never be true equality until the law-making bodies represent the country to whom it serves.  Be it the US Congress or the US Supreme Court.  There are not enough women, Blacks, Asians,Jews, homosexuals, etc on either.  The only thing we can do is vote and hope that between the lobbyists, the career politicians/crooks, and courts dont hijack another election!  And I am a moderate!  :0)  I love this country just as much as those who believe I shouldnt say some of the things I just said.  I was born here and my ancestors helped build it to what it is now, so I am not going anywhere.

 There are so many thing on so many levels that people misinterpret the Bible for that it is frightening.  I live my life every day as a beautiful bodacious straight Black woman.  I do this even when it is unpopular to do so.  I speak my mind openly, intelligently, and honestly.   In saying that I am not afraid to say when I am wrong either.  I call it as I see it.  You can still be a Christian and be a bigot.  Refer to the history of the Klu Klux Klan if need be.  People interpret the Bible different ways - I choose to use it to include all.  I’ll let God sort them out, because that is what Jesus tells me to do.  Remember Jesus, he is the one God sent for everyone after all the fire and brimstone.  ;-}

After reading this week’s essay, I realized how far women have progressed since the Women’s Liberation movement.  I decided that it was by the grace of God that I hadn’t been born yet because I have some humorous and sometimes off-center view of how to rectify sexist oppression. 

Here are just a few:

1.  Ladies, if you a have on a blouse that has a v-neck down to your navel,  then please STOP wonder why men are constantly bumping into things around you and flinging drool on you in the process. 

2.  Stop calling and referring to oursleves as the weaker sex.

3.  The glass ceiling would be shattered quicker if we all got together and used our 3 inch heels as weapons and bras as slingshots every time we heard, “he was the best man for the job”.

4.  Realize that while all men are created equal, it takes a woman to actually give birth to them.

Feel free to add more if you like.  I started this out on a whim