Dear Men
Dear men, Do you know that today is about you? November 19 is celebrated by some countries as International Men’s Day. We’re supposed to celebrate your strength, health and wealth in all spheres on this day. When we wake up next to you on this day, we’re supposed to lovingly look at your faces and see Marcus Garvey, Muhammed Ali, Tupac, Lumumba, Emperor Haile Selassie…heck even Jesus Christ and all of his disciples and followers. We’re supposed to see the doting fathers of our beautiful children and even imagine them in as our sons’ favorite character Spiderman and even Shaka Zulu…izinja zelife basically. Dear men, for this important day I had this celebratory narrative all worked out in my head for weeks because men are actually at the top of my list of favorite delicious people. In my head, in your honor, I’d slated all these Shakespearean lyrics that, even though they don’t resemble your faces, they sure feel like your well chiseled presence. I had all the live bro