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In the movie, “Their eyes were watching God”,
which was based on Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, it showed the problem with the
Black family in America. The main character was played by Halle Berry, who had
a relationship with three men.
The first was an old husband who had 60 acres of
land, but needed a helper who will inherit all that he had after death. The
second husband was an ambitious Mayor who built a city, but was portrayed as an
arrogant man who needed a trophy wife. The last man was an irresponsible
drunkard and gambler, who knew how to have fun but would never build a home. At
the end, it was clear that Halle Berry preferred the temporary fun of
irresponsibility over the long term of building a home. She preferred a man who
put her life at risk in a hurricane because of missing two days of work than
those who gave her land and a city.
In the name of Black History Month, I would like
to encourage Black women to put the love of a stable family before their pride
of independence and career. The family is still the basic unit of any civilized
society on which progress is built upon. We have to be careful with what we
show our children to watch and read. Black America is sinking because of
fatherless homes based on how our women choose their partners rather than why
the man is unavailable.
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The Political & Spiritual Purpose of the
Holy Land
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