I read a piece that was spoken by Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer. I knew the women was a hero in her own right by helping out her community and even branched out to help her state, but by her words I now see she had more spunk and fire in her than I could have imagined. She had so many quotes, which I will be placing in this blog, that moved me and made me think! She was so strong and outspoken. I really love the fact that she lived only 10 minutes away from my house. When I go to her part of MS, Sunflower County, to visit my family I always see her street sign Fannie Lou Hamer St. I had always wondered why she got not just her last name but her whole name and now I see why, because she was not a force to reckon with!
She called out the white women,” You had been put on a pedestal, and then not only put on a pedestal but you had been put in something like a ivory castle. So what happened to you, we have busted the castle open and whacking like hell for the pedestal. And when you hit the ground, you’re gone have to fight like hell, like we’ve been fighting all this time”.
Also my favorite truth and one a friend pointed out (Quinn): “The point about it, the male influence in this country—you know the white male, he didn’t go and brainwash the black man and the black woman, he brainwashed his wife too…”
Mrs. Fannie Lou was fired up about the situation of her race and I applaud her for keeping it real, truthful, and VERY firm in her piece, The Special Plight and the Role of Black Women
MMm that was good huh,
LiVRight
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