MadRiche

Madness Over a Womyn's Place.

• Friend: What's your opinion on a woman's "place"? And do you think a woman has a "place" at all?
• MadRiche: I think a woman's place is next to her man. Equal in the strength given by their intention to survive in harmony.
• Friend: Ugh. Why are you so perfect?! I had a whole twitter debate today on this subject. Idk why some guys are still cavemen or think they're born with these cavemen ideals.
• MadRiche: I think gender lines are a huge conflict in our community and is rarely the ruling topic in our struggle. We've been deliberately divided and turned against each other. Our women are queens and our history proves it. They don't love their women. They own them. Like they owned us. We were never in caves. We lived in temples (were their history begins). Prehistoric times is a slick term which means before Whites were "civilized."
• Friend: Exactly and I don't feel like I'm weak and have to be owned for some man to tell me what I need to do and when and where. The guy said to me that I'm going to want a man to tell me what to do -___- like it's embedded in me on some shit.
• MadRiche: Taking direction doesn't make you weak, it makes you responsible. Women (from what I understand) like men who aren't afraid to assert themselves because it makes them feel safe. You have to ask yourself what does it mean to be a man? What makes a "real man" because that's what guys are constantly thinking.
• Friend: ...
• MadRiche: Men like to guide, it makes us feel masculine. Woman like to counsel (handle emotions). Its Impossible to guide without counseling.
• Friend: But why can't one be able to do both? Guide and counsel.
• MadRiche: What does that leave for the other to do?
• Friend: Men shouldn't feel less masculine if they counsel and a women shouldn't be turned down if she wants to guide. They would guide and counsel as well.
• MadRiche: This is true and that should be something that is communicated well in advance before entering a relationship or else there will be a power struggle.
• Friend: Strip the fact that the person is a man or woman. At some point a person wouldn't mind some guidance and or counseling... and that is always the biggest problem. The power struggle. I guess we're taught to be in control of our relationships instead of turning the wheel together...
• MadRiche: I couldn't possibly strip the identity of a person to access their needs. Society decides who will prefer to do what. If you are with someone who shares the same interest then their guidance or counseling will never be offensive. None of this is definite, personalities vary.
• Friend: Personalities do vary but are our personalities based on our gender?
• MadRiche: Personalities determine how willing someone is to stepping away from their societal role. I understand that America puts a strain on women but I also understand how it has effectively belittled the guidance of Black men in the eyes of Black women. This obsessive need for control is a way of reclaiming importance.
• Friend: ...
• MadRiche: I'm not saying its right but I do understand the circumstances that provoke this behavior.
• Friend: Yeah and Black women in a way helped with it too. With the whole "Niggas ain't shit" movement. But then again Willie Lynch did seek to make sure this happened as well as other things.
• MadRiche: This is all part of a plan to divide and conquer us. They love seeing us fight. How many White celebrities do you know that were involved in domestic violence? Few? That's because they specifically put our problems on display to dismantle Black love.
• Friend: Yup! making Black love seem almost nonexistent.
• MadRiche: Exactly. We have a lot of work to do but we can't keep fighting each other to fix things. We have to love even when it seems impossible. We have to be honest and trust each other or else we'll just be participating in our own destruction.
• Friend: Reversing hundreds of years of brainwashing.
• MadRiche: It takes careful time and patience but I've been working on it. We've been free physically (for the most part) but most of our minds are still in bondage.
• Friend: Parents need to free their children. Show them how to be free. Explain why the elders are still slaves.
• MadRiche: Mother's should counsel their children with this information and father's should guide them.

Trayvon Madness

• Friend: I'm sitting here wondering your thoughts on the Trayvon Martin case...
• MadRiche: I'm completely warped in frustration by what happened. Part of me wants his murderer imprisoned and the other part wants him publicly executed. What happened to him explains America (in a nutshell) - the land of the so-called free. I'm finding it harder and harder to participate in upholding this society.
• Friend: ...
• MadRiche: I feel even more uncomfortable going outside without a warranted reason because of Trayvon's death (let alone this state's history). That could of been me. My apartment is 40mins away from where he was killed. I really don't see a reason to have a passive attitude about any of this. Something needs to happen. FAST.
• Friend: Its so scary and heart breaking. History just seems to repeat again and again. Young Black men just picked off just because they're Black.
• MadRiche: History repeats its self when nobody learns from it. America never taught us its true history (or ours). We've been lied to and trained to believe that we have the right to be lied to (and even pay for it financially and psychologically).
• Friend: Especially history that has to do with Blacks. That shit is pushed under the rug or sprinkled with sugar all the time. The others* always wonder why Blacks are so "angry"
• MadRiche: Fuck others. They aren't dying and being imprisoned as much as we are. They don't believe in our holocaust.
• Friend: And the fact that this may never ever EVER change just makes it even more sickening. The year changes .. Technology moves forward... And Blacks in America are still suffering like its the 18th century.
• MadRiche: That's because Blacks are waiting for Whites to approve of them instead of fighting for their liberty. African-Americans (collectively) are too easily pacified by tokens (religion, money, presidencies ect.). If absolute freedom isn't the intention then death is the request.
• Friend: That's the thing.. Approval for what?? Niggas always wanna be waiting for shit instead of getting up and demanding the respect and ability to be treated like humans.
• MadRiche: Exactly. But see, I've never been a nigga. Haitians have set an example that I'm willing to put into practice. Fuck these crackers.

and I’m as much of a “nigger” as I am a Unicorn