RESPECT OUR WOMENTHE FIRST DUTY OF CIVILIZED MAN

By Abraham W. Bolden, Sr.Chicago, Illinois

Posted September 30, 2015

To my beloved Brothers of the Diaspora

Who have dwelled is this land of America:

It is time that you be awaken to that which is True.

You have marched, preached, sang, and prayed

In the Temples and streets of this great country.

You have advanced in education and political acumen;

Yet, the freedom that you seek has been illusive.

There is a Holy and Divine cosmological relationship

Between Man and Woman. Together they constitute

Unbreakable golden thread as Spirit and Soul.

Below is the KEY. The KEY that will open the lock that

Bars you from the Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom and

Justice that we seek.

Without this KEY, we are but vagabonds and powerless

Creatures of this earth. Take this KEY!!

HEAR

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The first duty, spiritual, and moral obligation of any civilized

nation of people is the respect and protection of its women.

When any nation or people lose either the power or the will to

respect and protect its God ordained medium of existence, that

nation is doomed to internal chaos and self destruction and no

amount of speeches, slogans, clenched fists, or government

political programs can deliver that nation from the burning

hell that it has created for itself.

The Voices of our Forefathers are calling upon all Black men

to make a moral commitment to renew the deep respect and

high regard our forbearers held for our sisters. In doing this,

we will create a condition of peace and harmony throughout

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our race and our nation. In her untiring dedication to the aims

and goals of the Black man, our women have over the years

proven themselves to be the true Queens of Heaven and Earth.

She is that Great Mother, that Virgin Mother of all nations of

the earth and is worthy of the highest veneration and praise.

The greatest failure of the Black man of today is not

educational or economic, but it is his failure to exercise

common decency and respect towards those among him who

tong have earned and therefore are entitled to that respect and

consideration.

During all of the years, the horrible years, of physical slavery,

our Black sisters have always stood as unshakable pillars of

family support amidst a trembling world of chaos and

confusion. And when the Black man was stripped of everything

except his human existence, they stood by him and remained

shining examples of loyalty, spiritual determination, and

endless love. By Divine Inspiration, she has reared, protected,

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and helped to sustain the fallen black brother and has risen as

a source of strength during every cruel trial and tribulation.

The cold, iron chains that cut deep into the ankles of the

African brother as he lay helpless in the rat infested holes of

the slave ships, also cut deep into the legs of our women who

fought and died for our weaknesses and failures. It was we

that “cried like a woman for what we failed to defend like a

man”.

The dusty walls of the slave dungeons at Lisbon and Senegal

are stained with the red, dried blood of our women who

forsook not their men and followed them into the abyss of hell.

We cannot afford to forget the great role played by our sisters

in assuring our survival.

And for herself sacrifices on behalf of our survival; for the

agonies and frustrations she has endured for centuries; for the

blood that she shed in bringing forth this new nation, what

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reward have we given her? We have permitted her to be

shamed, castigated, defamed, embarrassed, misused and

abused. The thief, the burglar, the murderer, and the rapist

roam freely while the mothers of our nation are shut up behind

steel bars. We have struck fear into the very bosom from which

our milk of survival flowed. We have forced her to seek

protection from those of her own nation. We refer to her using

the most vile and hateful names such as no civilized nation has

ever called its own women. Brothers, we have forsaken our

Divine Obligation to protect our women and respect our

women-as they so unswervingly protected and guided us when

all other nations of the earth hoped for our destruction.

Is it justice to her that she should walk the streets of our

neighborhoods in fear of the very men from whom she should

rightly expect protection? Can we demand our "civil rights"

from other civilized nations of people when she from whose

very womb we descended, she who nursed us through infancy

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and brought us through all of our sicknesses and infirmities

has not the "civil right" to hail a taxicab, go to the

supermarket or ride public transportation unmolested by the

very sons of her bosom? And if the continued disrespect of our

sisters be our main act in this drama of life, what will we do for

an encore except the complete destruction of our own selfish

selves? If you would ask that any God deliver us from the evils

of others, let us first deliver our own sisters from the rapes,

muggings, and verbal abuses committed by our own hands. In

this undertaking there will-be great honor. If we have not the

will to overcome the years of brainwashing by the enslaver and

treat our sisters with common decency and civility, there is

little need of our joining hands and singing about overcoming

anything else. Without the help of those who love us the most,

all hopes and dreams are doomed to failure.

With the Master's grip of self discipline, take hold of this

national urgency. The progress of our nation depends upon

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your efforts. May The Supreme Creator of all that was, is and

is to be grant you Peace and Determination.

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