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Kallaloo 4 De Soul | iChunes <strong>Ent</strong>. <strong>Magazine</strong><br />
The Rebirth of the Strong Caribbean Woman<br />
WHILE struggling with the reality of being a<br />
human, instead of a myth, a strong Caribbean<br />
woman passed away. Medical sources said she<br />
died of natural causes, but those who knew her<br />
said she died from being silent, when she should<br />
have been screaming!!!! Smiling, when she<br />
should have been raging from being sick and not<br />
wanting anyone to know, because her pain might<br />
inconvenience them. She died from an overdose<br />
of negative people clinging to her soul, when she<br />
didn't even have energy for herself…from loving<br />
men who don't love themselves, and could only<br />
offer her a crippled reflection. She died from<br />
raising children alone as a single parent….died from hearing the truth from<br />
her wise grandmother who told her about her mixed culture. The strong<br />
Caribbean woman is dead. She died from being dragged down and sat<br />
upon by bald women posing as her sistas and friends….died from<br />
tolerating Mr. Pitiful, just to have a man around the house. She died from<br />
sacrificing herself for everyone and everything when all she really wanted<br />
was to be accepted as just a woman from the Caribbean. She died from not<br />
being allowed to show her weakness without being chastised by the lazy<br />
and hazy…died from hiding her real feelings until they became hard and<br />
bitter enough to invade her room and breast like Angry tumors! She died<br />
from being too Caribbean and died again from not being Caribbean<br />
enough…..died from being misinformed about her mind, her body, culture<br />
and the extent of her royal capabilities. And sometimes when she refused<br />
to die, or just refused to give in, she was killed by the lethal image of not<br />
recognizing her true beauty, golden locks of hair, high cheekbones,<br />
vibrant lips of color.<br />
She died because she did not realize she was the giver of life, the Heart and<br />
Soul of her family. She died because her life could not be an open book,<br />
and was stomped to death by racism and sexism, executed by Hi-Tech<br />
ignorance while she carried the family in her belly, the Caribbean<br />
community on her head and the ethnicity of our culture on her back! She<br />
died because she was judged by the color of her skin, by the texture of her<br />
hair, or how she speaks with the accent of her cultural heritage! Yes, this<br />
strong Caribbean woman is dead! Or is she…..This Caribbean woman rose<br />
from the dead, because she realized that she defines who she is and how<br />
she wants people to see her when she stands tall in her COMMUNITY, in<br />
her FAITH, in her TRUTH, and most of all in her CULTURE! I am a<br />
woman of the Caribbean. I share this with Caribbean Women, and<br />
Christian Women everywhere…….<br />
~ Written by Mea Allman, ichunes <strong>Ent</strong>. <strong>Magazine</strong> Managing Editor<br />
21 <strong>January</strong> / <strong>March</strong> <strong>2018</strong>