Black Men have Forgotten Black Women are their Connection to God
Once upon a time, a young black man ran to his grandmother for prayer in times of trouble.
She was his rock, a solid and dependable connection to “the beyond”. He believed her prayers could keep him in places of favor with God. He believed that just maybe his life was spared tonight because of Grandma’s prayers. She covered him, kept him safe, ordered his steps.
The grandmothers, the great-grandmothers — those who were root workers, conjurers, prayer warriors, Hoodoos, spiritual women, wives, intercessors, nurses, mid-wives, servants, priestesses, powerful Matriarchs with bloodlines that dated back to the gods and tribes of Africa, have passed on, and the reverence for “Woman as Connection to God” (protector of the Spirit of the black man) in the black community is fledgling, forgotten … lost.
Black men have forgotten the spiritual position black women hold in their lives as the vessels and covering (just as many have forgotten their position as physical protection of women and children here in the Earth realm). Black women, the portal that birthed them, are also their connection to God — their connection to other…
