A Way With Words by Missy Marilyn
Encouraging Entries for the Empowerment of Modern Women
A Way With Words by Missy Marilyn
Encouraging Entries for the Empowerment of Modern Women
Today, I wear pearls. I wear pearls because they signify something beautiful that came from an injury. I wear pearls because they indicate class and elegance. I wear pearls for all brown girls who have ever been made to feel like they don’t belong. I wear pearls for all the women in a man’s world, …
My sisters, my friends. The last paragraph of my last post came to me as I tried to muster some form of comfort to speak to my baby sister, who is a few years my junior, but missed a lot of the good stuff we came up with. Sadly, her time has been wrought with …
Consider This I’ve read about people boycotting the NFL because the players were kneeling for the anthem, and other such drama still surrounding these anthem protests. So, somehow, this protest on the field has spurred a protest of its own. I’m so dang tired of hearing everybody be so quick to pick a fight before …
I’ll confess. I have lived most of my life fairly ignorant of politics. Politics have always seemed to me a necessary evil, where people go to sell their souls for votes, and they’ll lie to you quicker than an old car salesman. I’ve always been concerned more on the inner person, how a person feels/ …
I was talking to an officer friend of mine the other day, and we were talking about the riots. I said I don’t condone it but I could understand the anger. Do you really believe they haven’t been gaslit at every turn? Every time, they are told how to feel about it, and how to …
Wake up, America! It’s war time in America. We’ve been fed hateful rhetoric for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We’ve fortified walls, when we should have been building bridges. People are dying on American soil. There are abuses of power everywhere. If you haven’t turned on the news lately, it’s us. We’re the news. The spotlight’s …
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama So, what do we do? Do we want to do what we’ve always done; so we can get where we’ve always gotten? Or, …
Racism isn’t all white hoods and riots. And it is, regrettably, still a thing. It can be micro-conflicts that people encounter every day. It can be what we do if we witness such micro-conflicts, and what we don’t do. It’s how we behave toward certain people. It’s how we treat people differently based on appearances …
“In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.” —Angela Davis, academic and political activist Real talk, America. We are truly in the midst of an epidemic. Racism is a disease. And it hides in un-examined hearts. My pastor doesn’t let us leave on Sundays before he’s asked us …
I’ve spent a lifetime being quiet. But I feel like I can’t do that any longer. Because there’s a time to be quiet, and there’s a time to get mad. I have a lifetime full of friends that are suffering right now, who are extremely uncomfortable at all of this, and I’m going to say …
The key to life, empathy. It answers all the questions on our minds right now. Do I really need to wear a mask? Empathy. Why are they taking down all the statues? Empathy. What if racism still exists? Empathy. How do we get through this divide? … Empathy.
