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Just because we don't look exactly like you white folks doesn't mean you gotta be cruel to us. It is true that black men and women are dying and yes it is true that all people care about is the whites in the wars. I am fed up with this crap. It is time to start realizing that we are humans too, we have feelings too. You have to realize it to make a change in our society today. Suck it up people. Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): Ain't I A Woman? Delivered 1851 Women's Convention, Akron, Ohio Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about? I put this speech on here just to show you how badly black people where treated back then. Ain't it crazy how we were treated badly by whites, but we continue to fight for your freedom, when you didn't give us ours. That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman? Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got Nothing more to say.
11hotty11 added this comment 2012-02-08 18:17:37-06:00
Happy Black History Month everyone!
11hotty11 added this comment 2012-02-08 18:17:37-06:00
Happy Black History Month everyone!