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Black woman stop degrading yourself

By Anisah Muhammad | Last updated: Nov 25, 2014 - 11:52:36 AM

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What attracts our women and girls to immodesty? Why are they fascinated by the styles of this world? Why do we unclothe ourselves in the public eye?

Satan makes evil fair-seeming. We see the White woman portraying herself half-naked or nearly naked on the covers of magazines and on the television commercials. On the island of Pelan when the Black scientist Yakub began making a new people, he developed a system of breeding. His followers had to continuously engage in the sex activity. Having sex and going nude were ingrained in the very being of this new people, the Caucasian. Now Black women have taken on that same mentality.

Why do we as Black women not care about our virtue? The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan told us that we should DIE protecting our virtue! Your and my virtue is what makes us sacred. Life and civilization comes through the female, and if the female is scantily-clad and without respect for herself and her body, what kind of nation will arise from that female?

Many of the styles of this world are made by men. Why are men designing the clothes that women should wear? We wear clothes that reveal our form and are tight on our skin. We wear low-cut shirts and mini-skirts. Who made the clothes we wear fashionable? Who said it was so? Men, or should I say boys, only see you as a challenge, the next conquest. You lower and objectify yourself by wearing clothes that turn men into dogs.

Minister Farrakhan said to make the woman a sex symbol is to devalue her. Black women, stop making yourselves sex symbols. You are the first teachers of the young and a nurse to your family. You are not an object or a symbol! You are the second self of God Himself. You are the mother of civilization and the queen of the planet. The first aspect of yourself a man should get acquainted with is your mind. Your intelligence makes you that much more valuable to your family and the world. Know thyself. You are the Original Woman. Stop devaluing yourself. 

Show the world how much you value yourself by not having sex with any slick boy who comes your way. Don’t let anyone degrade you, and stop degrading yourself. Show the world how much you value and respect yourself by simply putting on a longer shirt or some loose-fitting pants. Fashion and style doesn’t mean immodesty. Just look at modest fashionista Sister Halimah Muhammad out of Detroit. Her website is halimahnia.com.

(Anisah Muhammad is a 17-year-old writer based in Montgomery, Ala. To read more of her commentaries, visit [email protected]).

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