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Black Women: The Labeling of Our Ethnicity
Remembering Mommy
It Could Have Been My Son
A Mother's Cry
Leveraging Our Hope For The Future
I Bear Fruit
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ZFC-SSAC
Chicago Theological Seminary
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I Bear Fruit
I bear fruit.
Not strange fruit,
but fruit that is
Sweet and
Honorable and
Loved.
There is nothing strange about my fruit.
In fact, what is strange is the way my fruit is
Marginalized,
Disrespected,
Dishonored and
Threatened.
What is strange is the way that my fruit is
Used and
Abused and
Thrown away like garbage.
What is strange is how others make light of the tragedy that my fruit had to endure... has to endure.
What is strange is the way others justify their actions in order to vilify the beauty of my fruit.
I bear fruit.
Not strange fruit, but fruit that is
Sweet and
Honorable and
Loved.
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