"SHE'S A HO, SHE'S A HO"
by Khalil Somadi

It seems everyday somewhere online i see brothers quick to call a sister a ho.
If she has more than one lover, she's a ho.  If she dresses provocatively, she's a ho. If she has more than one "baby daddy", she's a ho. If she likes to party til wee hours of the morning,  guess what? She's a ho!
Wow.
Has you ever noticed that men who do those same things are never the ho?
Women aren't suppose to enjoy sex unless it's with one man only. But it's a man's birthright to enjoy all the sex he wants with whomever he wants.
That's a bunch of gorilla shit!
This mindset is as old as dust and just as unoriginal!
Not to mention the obviously overlooked irony that without men to ho with them, there could BE no sisters as hoes!
These brothers fail to realize that the same patriarchal society that label women and especially black women as inferior for being nonconformist, is the same patriarchal society that oppresses black women AND black men with stereotyping and psychological brainwashing based in creating an ideal that is not real, then denigrating them as a People for always perpetually failing to be black by white standards!

Sisters who quickly chime in along with the brothers and often leading the charge in labeling other sisters a ho, should realize that they are helping build and strengthen the proverbial box society has constructed for them, even if they themselves do none of the things perpetuated as ho behavior, just by being black,  female and willing to marginalize their own sisters; because if a patriarchal society pigeonholes one sector of black femininity as immorally inferior based on race, it stereotypes all black femininity as such. And these sisters are most certainly influenced by said stereotype, whether it be by being labeled themselves at some point, or by causing them to bend over backwards to live up to someone else's ideal of what they should or should not be.
If a white supremacist society controls your mindset, it can control your actions, toward your ownself your own people.

We must learn to see with more than our eyes, Kindreds!