Sunday, January 12, 2020

Excising What Separates Us: Overhauling Our Mindsets by Khalid Sowande

On Our journey of overall Ascendance, We must first overhaul Our mindset. One aspect of such an overhaul is re-examining perpetuated terminology that has become societally normalized.
Herein are examples of terms/labels which have become normalized, but should no longer be acceptable. I share them here in two separate lists:
List#1 Originated from colonizers, and
List#2 Originated by the Oppressed Due to colonization.
Recognizing the lists separately helps Us to see how the latter was born of the former.

List#1
The label "Illegitimate" for children born out of wedlock

The label "Bitch" for women

The label "Whore" for women

The religious label "Saved"

The white supremacist labels "minority" & "ethnic"

The racial labels "white" and "black" (notice that these two peoples are the ONLY PEOPLES who are formally labeled by COLORS, everyone else is known by NATIONALITY!!!? Ask yourself, Why?🤔)

List#2
The misogynistic  label "Thot"

The condescending label "retarded"

The misogynistic label/reference "female"for black women used by black men

Labeling which automatically equates Gay Man with Effeminate Man

Labels which equate Gay people with Trans people

Labels which equate Mental Illness with Weakness

Labels like "pussy", "soft" and "sensitive" which deride black men who do not elect to hide themselves behind machismo and pre-designated characterization roles for black men.

Kindreds feel free to add other instances of which you are aware that I may have overlooked here... this is a learning AS WELL as teaching moment!

Let us overhaul our mindsets TOGETHER.

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3 comments:

  1. WrittenMasterfullyScriptiveJanuary 12, 2020 at 5:30 AM

    Mmmmmm that’s is some real real real shyt...... oweeee my avenue to mars write speaks on some of these exact things

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  2. Sarah B. ToninJanuary 12, 2020 at 4:27 PM

    I understand completely and need to think on it some more. I have always had an issue with the thought of people calling children illegitimate or "outside" children and instead applied that term to the married parent who created the situation. I believe these terms (all of them) simply exist to justify the treatment or mistreatment of the people being talked about, whether positive or negative. There are plenty of other examples but I need to think on it. ��

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  3. TimothyJanuary 13, 2020 at 1:50 PM

    TRULY agree with all of this. Speaking from a recovery process mindset.The group 1 labels have been out of my vocabulary for years.The way I'm living my life SAY these past 15yrs. old ways just don't work.

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