Flaming
Belles,Isis Spokenpen
(Inspired by Metro Atlantic Bennett College A.A.
2014 White Breakfast Theme)
I am she
and she is me…. Young…Tender….Sassy & Fearless …..Older……. ….Courageous….. Gracious
and Seasoned!!
We are Women on Fire…Hunger to Be!! Yeah a
Different World from where we came from; every Thursday night the scandal of
the 90’s we Northern Girls knew we were missing something.
Fredrick Douglas said education was a passport, Malcom X’s bio said get that Passport
but just don’t let it become a Green Card, Carter
G. Woodson said it first in the Mis-education of Negro (Read) that in Freshwomen Orientation. Martin Luther King Jr. well our mommies
like Coretta’s momma want us to obtain a Degree and possibly get a Husband.
Little
did she know the information age would over power the industry age! Yahoo,
Microsoft, Apple and AOL will all tell us -we got Mail.
For all
Dressed in White a different kind of wedding day would be that Long Walk from
the President House to Chapel.
The
journey to a Different World would now become the Search for Our Mother’s Garden.
As we signed our name in the Bennett Book of Life becoming-Forever-Stamped into
the Secret Lives of Belles.
Didn’t
know like Debbie Allen once said if you want Fame you must know it COST and
Greensboro North Kakielacie is where Belles started paying.
Fire
requires the joining together in order to create a lasting flame! Herstory like
Labor pains 1873 to Present makes it plain…. like a Queen Bee/Mother Bennett
was always giving Birth. And we; her new classes of Daughter’s were expect to
do her Proud…for “Iron sharpens Iron”.
The
Flame was lit we were little Women on
Fire. Like Jeremiah for some of us the FIRE was shut up in our bones.
Pregnant in our souls… convert out of mental immaturity … becoming the
individual fine cut diamonds…. because only diamonds cut Glass. Womanist not Feminist
will cut through the ceiling of Gender Apartheid while leaving the family in
order…intake!!
Sisterhood
was on the top of the menu….experiencing it in mutable ways. Beside every good
man is a Great Woman. And beside every Good Woman are Great Sister Friends!! “As
a weed We will be never I never me but We and that’s the ways it is going to
be”.
We were Women on Fire and the Flames grew
HOTTER and HOTTTER!! Academic Cultural Enrichment (church yawl) happens every
Tuesday and Thursday. Internships, Volunteerism and ABC…. 1…2..3 is what WE
BREATH.
Gassing
up led to Snacks across the street with Mr. Guz and CPR (Health or Gym) class
was led by Mr. Macduff these were our Bennett community Fathers who kept it real
sometimes raw with us because Fire is both Comforting and Dangerous.
Mother
Bennett taught us our lessons earning some both a degree and an impartation and
other of us received a double portion of Faith. Knowing that we must stand on
our own two feet when the Thunder calls…for us…once a Belle always a Belle!! “And we do it Well”
Generation
X standing at the Door of Destiny not accepting No for answer; defining our
legacy we pass a small portion of our flame to the next generation. As well
trained Olympia’s we know our Belle little sisters ….Generation Y…..will do
Even Greater works then we Have DONE!!
The Baby
Boomers and the Cloud of Witness required our belles to RING even louder. The
Flame is carried further by the Wind in the Wings of the Belles of Liberty!!
Bennett
Belles are Women on Fire in the Board room, School House, Church Temples and
the House we call Home domestically keeping the Cold out and the Heat in!!
Heat
likes to Rise yawl!! No wonder why Belles were never allowed to walk on the
Grass… for every step a Belle takes is lit with the Heat that rises to a
contagious degree!! Fear we were taught –natural- but must be press threw.
Presentation was important but –Beauty- alone wasn’t Enough.
Thus, whether
it be a Morehouse Gentleman or Aggie Manly Man none could avoid the phenomenal-ness
of a Belles warmth.
I am a
Bennett Belle a Magnolia Tree –planted- firmly in My Mother’s Garden!! With
Global Branches supplying logs for Heat daily into some Young Women’s Life
giving out of the Oasis, I was baptized in!!
For THIS IS THE
WE Make!!!!
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