Revolution

What is the definition of a revolution? What does revolution mean to you? Is it fair to say we, as Women of Color, have yet to have had a revolution of our own?

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Freedom? in the US...

If you have to party tomorrow, think about what freedom means when the u.s. has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's prisoners. Think about what freedom means in a land that was stolen and then developed with stolen labor. Consciousness does not just come, we must search towards it.

Frederick Douglass's "The Meaning of July Fourth to The Negro" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927t.html''

".....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. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, 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.There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour......."

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