Well, upon seeing me, it is very obvious what I am. I am a Black Woman in America in 2020 and this world always seize to amaze me. The woman I am today is a lot different than the woman I would have been in 1851. This year holds so much significance, but most importantly to me as a woman, this is the year that Sojouner Truth spoke her piece and foreverr changed the foundation of all African American Women to come after her.
Ms. Truth had a major impact on the history of women. She pointed out something very important to me in her speech. She said “…if woman upset the world do give her a chance to set it right side up again.” From the time I heard that quote it made me think. When has a woman truthFULLY had a chance to set the world right side up again. Statistics prove that 70% of men are in positions of power in Fortune 500 companies, 77% in government offices, and 73% in political cabinets, just to name a few. We, as women have always been left out and looked over for positions of power. There has never been a real chance for us, women, to make the things “right”, or at least what men think that women have messed up.
Another point I want to address is the one she made about the pint and quart. She said “…if a woman have a pint, and man a quart — why can’t she have her little pint full? … for we can’t take more than our pint’ll hold.” Men consistently deprive women of what they deserve in fear that we will will act the way men have acted and still act with the power they possess. Our agendas are not the same, our pint is not their quart. We, as women do not long to have what they have, nor do we want to do what they do. This would be known if they gave us a chance to prove that, or if they at least asked.
I am A woman. I do not like the system we are consistently fighting. I constantly face adversity because I am not only a woman, but I am also an African American. This world is not formed to help or benefit me in anyway so I have to get everything on my own, but this is the story of all African American women across the entire world. A Woman, I am, but I am a woman in a man’s world.
Chanel Edwards
A Woman, I am. 