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Civil Rights Dead
In Louisiana Post Office
Look up Francesanna,
though America has abandoned you
They boast of how Rosa Parks
Has paved the way for blacks
But a black woman is worth
Nothing in the US Postal Service
And Plaguemine, Louisiana
The PMG sent the message so
They still want to paw the body
of a black woman
Hasn't changed much from when
cotton was picked
Your husband had to write a note
"My wife's body she won't submit"
Look up Francesanna
As they try to crush your spirit
You are God's child
And your soul belongs to Him.
You know they paw the woman
No matter what color she may be
And civil rights in Louisiana
Is still a fantasy
So you look up, Francesana
The Lord has chosen you
To raise them children he sent
They ain't "Judy Coffinizing" this woman...
Quote
"Nobody every helped me into carriages,
or over mud puddles,
or gives me any best place,
and ain't I a woman?
Look at me! Look at my arm!
I have plowed, and planted,
and gathered into barns,
and no man could heed me--
and ain't I a woman?
I could work as much and eat as much
as a man
(when I could get it),
and bear the lash as well--
and ain't I a woman?
I have borne thirteen children and
seen 'em mos' all sold off into slavery,
and when I cried out with a mother's grief,
none but Jesus heard--
and ain't I a woman?
Then they talk
about this thing in the head
what they call it? Intellect.
That's it, honey.
What's that got to do with
women's rights or nigger's rights...
Then that little man in black there,
he say women can't have as much rights as man,
cause Christ wasn't a woman.
Where did your Christ come from?
Where did your Christ come from?
From God and a woman.
Man had nothing to do with Him."
Sojourner Truth, 1851, From a speech at the Woman's Rights Convention at Akron, Ohio
From Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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