Bonsoir mon petit honors revolutionaries!
be prepared to hear from me a lot tonight.. this is blog one of five *looks sheepish* yeah I know, I should know better but as Walter Cronkite said so famously, "That's how the cookie crumbles".
Anyways:
So kudos to Malory for declaiming Sojurner Truth on Monday night. As a middling female-rights kind of girl, I wish we had had time to actually discuss "Ain't I A Woman?" and the Seneca Falls Declaration in full.
Sojurner Truth was a great inspiration to all women activists but she brings up some good points in her speech dealing with African-American rights as well. Even in the 1850's, women were just as capable as men and men did know that, they just refused to believe it.
What strikes me the most when reading this is the belief system these men and anti-feminist women had to strike down women's rights. Saying that women can't have rights because Christ wasn't a women is really illogical if I may say so. Where on earth do they think Christ came from?!? Like Athena and he just sprang out from heaven? Um no. He came from Mary--a woman. According to some theologians, Christ wasn't white either.. does that mean that white people shouldn't have rights as well? Think about it. And as for the African-American side, if men say that women should be carried over ditches and all of that jazz, shouldn't that imply for ALL women and not just white women? God doesn't judge, neither should we.
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