Our family left Gabe and Nadia’s house. As we drove home,
Eric said, “Mama you handled that one really well. I am very glad that you spoke up. They needed to know that they just cannot go around doing that to people. It is wrong! People should be able to come as they are and as time goes by, if their heart moves them in that direction then and only then should they start wearing the African clothing. That should be something a person decides on their own, they should not be forced into that.”
Morgan said,
“I am just glad that you ripped into them and hopefully they will learn to leave people alone. Apparently they had been running amuck doing that to any woman they thought of as attractive to their men. I thought about what Morgan said.
I remembered that sweet young lady named Taymar. She was nowhere to be found. She was very pretty too. I had not heard from her since the very beginning, when she tried to explain to me how things work in the group. The women had probably run her off. She was to pretty to be in that group with those jealous bitches. The craziest thing is that these ladies are all quite beautiful themselves and had no reason to be insecure at all.
I was just very glad that I had gotten that out of the way. Now they all knew that they had better think twice before they ever opened their mouths to confront me or anyone in my family with their petty bullshit!
We finally made it home. I did not want any tea. I just went straight to my room and changed my clothes. I heard my cell phone ring. By the time I dug my cell phone out of my purse it had stopped ringing. I looked at the caller ID and I saw Gabriel’s phone number. I did not want to be bothered with him.
Later on I did get calls from Ahaziyah and Sister Mand...
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...he shirt, but they had on jeans on with the shirt. Some of the women were wearing dresses that looked like they could easily have been worn to a church the next day.
I looked over at Eric and I looked at Paul. Neither of them was dressed in African attire and Morgan had worn the clothes she had in her closet, jeans and a long, loose fitting t-shirt. Her purpose was to cover her body. Morgan could have worn a burlap bag and her figure would still shine through, she could not help it.
I stood up and I said out loud, in a plain and clear voice,
“Kaliyah you cannot force people to wear what you think is the correct clothing. You see, right now the majority of the people in here are not dressed in proper African attire.”
Kaliyah responded and said,
“Well these are the new rules and this is what we are going to do. These are the proper clothing for men and women.”
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