"Blacks Should Get Over Slavery"
First of all, let me say he's 79 years old. You have to know all of his brain cells can't possibly be firing correctly. Secondly, as a woman, (a white woman too, by the way) and someone whose female ancestors were for all intents and purposes slaves as well - property owned by their husbands or fathers. I'm not getting over it.
I'm still pissed about that. I'm still waiting to see a woman get equal pay. I'm still waiting to see a woman become president of the United States. I'm still waiting for men...both white and black, (and every other color and religion the damned testosterone filled creatures are born in) to apologise for the way women in the past have been treated, and are still being treated.
I want to see my Grand-daughters grow up to be strong, self sufficient women who have no need for a man in order to feel whole or complete. I'd like to hear a pregnant couple's everyday common excited chatter be like this: "Wow we hope our firstborn is a girl!" "We're really praying for a daughter." "A boy would be nice, we'd love it just as much, but Lord, we really want a girl, we already have her name picked out - it's an old family name...after her grandmother!!"
I'm still waiting for the day women rule and men are kept in cages to be used strictly for breeding purposes.
Yes!
I have a dream too!
Get over it, indeed.
Posted by juel at January 16, 2007 07:37 PM