Hip Hop Culture & A Woman's Worth

April 03, 2017 by Jaimie Crumley in Respectability Politics

In this first part of my respectability series, I will talk about the power of language and the type of words I refuse to reclaim or accept. As a black woman, I fail to understand why I must change fundamental parts of who I am to conform to society while society makes no attempts to receive me.

singing the lord's song in an icy land.

February 13, 2017 by Jaimie Crumley

Free Agents, how can we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land? Where do we find the strength? Where do we find the courage? What are the harmonies we choose? What is the tempo of our song? In a land that has rejected, despised, and belittled us, how are we supposed to sing?

keep hope alive.

January 30, 2017 by Jaimie Crumley

The lectionary Gospel reading on Sunday was the Beatitudes, a part of the Sermon on the Mount in which Jesus teaches the ethics of the Kingdom of God. Let us embrace the ethics taught in Matthew 5, let us recognize that we are poor in Spirit that we may inherit the Kingdom, let us mourn the sorrows of this world that we may be comforted by our loving Creator, let us be meek because the Earth belongs to the meek. Let us hunger and thirst for righteousness, trusting God to fill us. Let us be filled with mercy knowing that we will receive mercy in return, let us be pure in heart so that we may see God, and let us be peacemakers because God is peace. We will resist. We will seek God. We will win. So be it.