07/03/2022
“Today in America, slavery isn't specific to the color of our skin. Today, slavery is anyone less fortunate than those who continue to seek power & control over our minds and bodies. Traditionally, we should be celebrating life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness but to do so would be a betrayal to our very existence, even in tradition. Today women have less rights than guns and corpses. Less rights than small victories our ancestors lost blood, sweat and tears to gain. Our ability to nurture and bring life into this world makes us vessels of uncertainty and have been viewed as less of a life than the cells we harbor. Far from liberty is the reality of the lives of women. Suppressed by our anatomical differences but we will never silenced.
We will continue to fight for our rights and freedom of choice, as well as those of our oppressed brothers and sisters regardless of color or s*x. We will be allies. To those who fight for and support us, thank you because our rights effect us all and the more we stand united, the better chance we have to achieve the ideal of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
- [ ] ‘What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.’
- [ ] ‘... your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.’”
Frederick Douglass: Excerpts taken from “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” Rochester, New York (July 5, 1852)
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* She / Her / Hers
* Pro-Choice Advocate
* Immigrant Daughter
* Religion: Love
