Good bye to a legend.

My well-known contemporary, Gloria Steinam, has checked out at the ripe old age of 92.

This famous activist and I go waaay back. I've always liked her even if her Feminist credo was more geared to white women than sistas - who yearned for capable black men to take the lead and at least share the burdens thrust upon their women. No such luck.

Gloria was cool, very adept at weaponizing words. One of her most famous zingers was her observation that "a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle". Amen.

She and Maya Angelou were partners in crime, when it came to cutting men down to size.

Thanks to Steinam advancing the cause of women, many barriers and glass ceilings were circumvented. It's hard to believe that back in the 1960s when banks came up with the idea of credit cards, single woman weren't eligible to get one nor could a married one, unless her husband co-signed for her. Neither did women get equal pay for doing the same job as a man. The feminist movement helped rectify all those restrictions.

Gloria wasn't a big fan of marriage, believing it was a contract wherein a woman signed away her independence.

She never stopped fighting for her cause, and in spite of what bruthas say or perhaps because of what they say about white feminists, l dug Gloria and couldn't care less about chauvinistic black men.)

Hail and farewell, Girlfriend. Rest in Power.