UNITE!! - DAMN IT
03.14.08 at 6:04 pm
in life, in the news, fame, cryptic, celebrity detox
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th District for seven terms from 1968 to 1983. In 1968, she became the first African American woman elected to Congress. On January 23, 1972, she became the first major party African American candidate for President of the United States. She won 152 delegates.
• I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish.
That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
• I want history to remember me not just as the first black woman to be elected to Congress, not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and dared to be herself.
• Of my two "handicaps" being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.
• I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being black.
• My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.
• Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
• We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.
• In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.
2 night 2 night
03.13.08 at 12:34 am
in life, in the news, home, love, celebrity detox
i find cynthia mcfadden very attractive
in a multitude of ways
she should have her own show
1 hour a week
she picks the stories - she produces the pieces
THAT
i would tivo
ferraro did the impossible
wonder woman
yet now
today
"Dear Hillary, I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what's at stake in this campaign. The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you. I won't let that happen. Thank you for everything you've done and continue to do to make this a better world for my children and grandchildren. You have my deep admiration and respect, Gerry.
how i love her
this inspiring female phenom
who made me believe
from the WIKI
Ferraro was born in Newburgh, New York. Her father, an Italian immigrant, died when she was eight; her mother was a seamstress. Ferraro received her undergraduate degree from Marymount Manhattan College, and a J.D. degree from Fordham University School of Law, going to classes at night while working as a second-grade teacher in public schools during the day. Ferraro graduated from law school in 1960, one of only two women in her graduating class.
she resigns
how hill will allow this
boggles my mind
have u no memory - i scream
WTF
effective monday march 17th
35 years 2 the day my mom left
the governor goes
thru the whore door
kristen ashley
"is this not a moral question"
asks the 8 time married
larry king
she is 22
wants to b a singer
beautiful full lips
a sly sneaky smile
sexy and she knows it
uses it - lives it
i know her
i get it
and then
some tragic woman expert lawyer
in a perfect business suit
w/dyed red blonde hair
"what you are buying is THAT girl
- who will forget you
- when you leave the room"
memories
light the corners of my mind
to quote elfaba
i'm not that girl
peace out - night bloggers
