MARTHA TUCKER

“Black people are more than pimps, whores, and drugged-out lowlifes!” I hear my inner self screaming. I fume because of comments by recently fired radio host who called the African American women’s basketball team, ‘nappy-headed hoes, and the once popular TV comic that maligned the entire African American race in a tirade of degrading epithets.  I disdain, corporations that create low glass ceilings for deserving Blacks, and TV producers who only portray African Americans as comics, buffoons, or criminals. We are some of those, but so much more. We are a loyal, diligent, brilliant asset to our country.

I became a writer to display the full gamut of African Americans, from brilliant educators to decent laborers, from CEOs to life changing authors. My pen moves to free us from the demeaning images that so harshly grip and damage our lives, our children, and our future. My pen moves to the pulsating rhythm of change. Martin Luther King changed the world with four words, "I Have A Dream" I write because God must have attached the damaged African American image to the wings of my destiny. The writer in me wrestled to be nurtured, right from the very beginning.

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