After reading this article, any black woman would really consider how blessed we are. We should be really proud that our struggle for literacy isn't the one that it once was. Yes, we learned that there is still a considerable amount of illiterate black women in our society, but considering other cultures, the black women in the United States are privileged. We have black women working in hospitals, black women teaching in schools and universities, and there are even some women who are government officials! I think that our mothers who were leaders in helping us obtain our literacy (Catherine Ferguson, Anne Marie Becroft, Sarah Mapps Douglas, etc.) would be proud to see how far black women have come, and that their work was worth it. They would also be proud that some of their work is still serving its purpose (my parents went to Lucy C. Laney high school, which is still open today and helping black students to obtain their literacy). Also, I think it is important that as black women of today, we should remember what these women of our past have done to make this opportunity available to us(Spelman College for example). We should continue to be grateful and accept what has been offered to us because it didn't have to be this way. There are women who are being oppressed in their own homeland today by their own men. We as black women should get all of the knowledge that we can and succeed with it in return for the women who worked so hard for us to be able to do this; it's the least we could do!
-Chene' Greene
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ReplyDeleteI totally agree with this blog because it emphasizes the strugglt of blacvk women. It speaks about what we have been through and how we're successful today but it still says that we aren't has literate as we need to be. Which is true. When reading this article I got the same thing from it. There are so many opportunities for us today that we don't take advantage of and then there are those that do take advantage of it. As mentioned in the blog our mothers of literacy that fought for us would be proud of what we've become today for the most part, but it's no secret that there is still a ways to go.
ReplyDelete-Kiah Ellis
I agree I think that we should be more than grateful. Like you said because of these women, women now have a voice. Although there are some cases where a man may have top priority than a woman but for us have made it this far is a blessing. I’m happy that I have a choice to be what ever I want to be in life. I can be an engineer, truck driver, a doctor, a scientist etc.
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