Letter To A Goddess: Message to the Black Woman

Letter To A Goddess:
Message to the Black Woman
by Prince A. Cuba
I would suppose that you have at this time already read the short article on the 5% that I sent you. It's only a short historical overview. Some of the social aspects are still in the process of growth and development, and have not become wholly solidified. The historical process is ongoing; there are going to be some changes, and the social conditions will dictate the solutions. One important aspect is the role and status of women in the 5%.
Of course you might ask, who am I to write about that, being a man, and that is a very good question. First of all, I am not writing for women, per se; but for men who, in their own ignorance, have subjugated women to a second-class status, not only in the general devil society, hut within the holy cipher of the 5%. In pure honesty, I must add, that while I feel compelled to make a moral stand in this matter, it is a tactical decision that prompts me to write this.
The simple fact is, that as long as the woman is subjugated within the ranks of the 5%, the ~best women- the articulate, the intelligent, and the educated- will be discouraged from being involved, particularly on the leadership level. .
Unfortunately this backward and ignorant attitude of many men toward women only reflects their own intellectual failings as well as their social and psychological insecurities.
One of the most outrageous mythologies promoted by these masculinist deadheads is that the woman is intellectually
inferior to the male. Certain individuals have made the claim that the female has only six ounces of brain weight, while the male has seven and one-half. This crap is a distortion of the teaching that the blond-haired, blue-eyed devil has only six ounces of brains, while the Asiatic Black Man, God, has seven and one half.
How this distortion came about was simply through the passage of time, it was repeated by those easily led in the wrong direction who accept statements on face value alone. In addition, this error was compounded by the fact that no one, particularly a male, corrected this error, and defended the female when she was attacked in this manner.
Surely, what God would allow his woman to be equated with a
devil?
Anyway, where is it written, said, expounded, explained, or shown and proven, that a woman has less brains than a man? Wouldn't you know that it's the most ignorant, the most unintelligent, and the most disrespectful of people that want to keep women down in a subservient position?
I will simply state that only a man with six ounces of brainpower would stoop to this devilishment of attempting to enslave the Black woman and assign her to a subordinate level. Only a man with dead meat for brains would equate my Sister, my Daughter, my Mother, with a devil. I can assure you, that in the passage of time, this mentality will be crushed wherever and whenever it manifests its ugly head.
Another question that arises on the woman's position within the 5% is the error, not by distortion, but by omission, of her real status ill life, as opposed to her "symbolic" status. On the symbolic level, the woman is referred to as the "Earth" (and often identified with the Earth's younger Sister, the Moon). Identifying the woman with the Earth actually has a great deal of history behind it. Any woman who has studied "women's history" will tell you that before the arrival of the white-colored male gods worshipped by the 85%, there was the Mother Goddess. She was identified with the Earth, harvest, and human fertility. Of course this all goes back to over six thousand years ago, and before the ideological and physical domination of the white man. Until that time people lived a communal existence with common ownership of land. The economist Marx termed this common ownership of land, the "Asiatic mode of production." Until the arrival of the Europeans into the Americas or Africa, land was held communally.
With the coming of the European (Aryan) invasions came the destruction of the matriarchal/matrilineal societies, the common ownership of land and food production, and the Earth Mother-centered religion. What replaced it was a patriarchal, "white man as god" astral religion, and the capitalist form of "private property" whereby a minority of individuals "owned" and controlled the land that was earlier held in common. This can" all be substantiated, and any "feminist" majoring in women's Studies will agree with me on all these points. (A few good books I would recommend on the subject would be: The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Frederick Engels; Mother Right, J.J. Bachofen; When God Was a Woman, Merlin Stone; The Evolution of the Woman, Evelyn Reed).
So the woman is symbolic of the Earth, and so it is added, because she is three-quarters water in body weight. Yes, and the symbolism goes further. Her menstrual cycle is the same as that of the moon's cycle around the Earth. A strong case may be made for the parallels and symbolic relationship between the Earth and the woman, but let us not confuse the symbols with the realities: the woman is not a huge planetary body hurtling through outer-space around the Sun in an elliptical orbit, and although I've seen some fat women in my time, I've never seen, nor heard of one who weighed six sextillion tons.
In many cases, like in the 5% Universal flag, the woman is represented as the Moon, as she is on the old Nation of Islam's National flag. As the Moon, she is represented as "Equality." The Sun, symbolizing the man, is represented as "Freedom," and the Star, symbolizing the baby, represents "Justice." Together they spell out Freedom, Justice and Equality. Within the Universal flag of the 5%, the moon is the Wisdom, the Blackman (7) Knowledge, and the Star, (or baby), the Understanding.
Now, the question of the woman and Equality is posed. If man is symbolized as the Sun and Freedom, and God, and the woman is the Earth, and Equality, we are absent the Understanding quotient parallel to God; where is the Woman's Equality to God?
The woman's status of Equality to God is Goddess,
Need we enter the realm of higher astronomy for esoteric insight? Does the Sun's rays plant the seed of abundant life in the fertile womb of the Earth? Does not the Earth revolve around the Sun because she is caught up in his gravitational pull? And what is gravity but the physical attraction between two material bodies? Poets may romanticize and obscure the fact, but "love" is nothing but gravity, and the further away, the more difficult to maintain the attraction. (It's no wonder that while men are in prison, the women" break orbit. ")

So, symbolically speaking, the man is the Sun, and the woman is the Earth; but if the Black man is God, is his woman not a Goddess? Others will say, "No, she's the Earth," and limit her from true Equality. I came to find that the word "goddess" was not even in their vocabulary. The level of their literacy did not comprehend the word goddess. What level of Equality can be expected from an illiterate?
I am at present in a prison surrounded by men, many who claim to be of the 5%, and of these, many only have two words for women: "bitches and freaks."
Now, a "bitch" is female dog. If a man sees his woman as a "bitch" he sees himself as a dog. There's no way around it. No amount of semantics or word games will remove this fact; no rhetoric will erase it.
And the term "freak" when explained by its users generally refers to a female who engages in licentious behavior. What is strange to me, is that a woman who will engage in sexual acts with a man, to please that man, would become an object of derision to that man. If she is simply doing with him what he desires, why is she alone the "freak," and not him, too? It takes two to tango.
It reminds me of a man who was complaining about paying alimony. He and his wife had four sons. I had asked him, When did you discover you couldn't get along?" And he had answered, "From the very start, as soon as we were married." So I said, "but you had four sons with her," to which he answered: "The bitch just kept breeding ... "- I didn't hesitate one second when I added," ... all by herself, huh?"

And for those so-called 5% who have no other words but "bitch" and "freak" for my Mother, Sister, and Daughter how can they call me "Brother"?
There can be no liberation for a people as long as there is no full freedom, justice, or equality for all of its members.
I know that I went of there a bit, but there are some things that have been bothering me for some time. I relate them to you so that you can see some of the misconceptions that exist concerning the 5% that must be remedied. I relate them to you because you have expressed an interest in knowing more about the 5% ........