If you’re reading this, stop listening and go watch the Fannie Lou Hamer clip I sampled. Fannie Lou Hamer "had a blood clot behind her eye from being severely beaten by police in a Mississippi jail. She was the youngest of 20 children born to sharecroppers in Mississippi, where she had spent much of her life picking cotton until she was fired for trying to register to vote” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/10/06/civil-rights-crusader-fannie-lou-hamer-defied-men-and-presidents-who-tried-to-silence-her/). She was forcibly-sterilized.  President Lyndon B. Johnson was terrified of her—a fear not misplaced. She was a leading voice in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and was incredibly vocal about the epidemic of rape across the nation, specifically in the South and as regarded Black women. 

I don't agree with her use of gendered language. It's more than Black men, and it's not about being a man, but I know what she means. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhu_uxRR2og

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> Lyrics: (Fannie Lou Hamer talking) Mississippi is still a very rough place, you know. People is not just walking up like they used to do in the past, walking out, you know. Shooting a man down or getting maybe, 2 or 300 people carrying out and lynching him but it's in a slow, settled way, you know. They'd let you starve to death and not give you jobs. These are some of things that's happening right now in Mississippi.... See, Mississippi is not actually Mississippi's problem. Mississippi is America's problem. Because if America wanted to do something about what has been going on in Mississippi, it would've stopped by now. It wouldn't have been in the past few years, 40, between 40 and 50 churches bombed and burned. See and this, this leads me to say, all of the burning and bombing that was done to us in the houses, nobody ever said too much about that, and nothing was done. But let something be burned, you know, by a Black man... And then 'My God!' you know? You see, the flag is, is drenched with our blood. Because you see, so many of our ancestors, was killed because, we have never accepted slavery. We had to live 'un it, but we never wanted it. So we know this flag is drenched with our blood. So what the young people are saying now, give us a chance to be young men, respected as a man, as we know this country was built on the Black backs, of Black people, across this country, and if we don't have it, you ain't gon have it either, cause we gon tear it up. That's what they saying! And people oughta understand that. I don't see why they don't understand that. They know what they've done to us. All across this country, they know what they've done to us. This country is desperately sick, and man is on the critical list. I really don't know where we go from here.

WITH OUR BLOOD

choose that which will bring you truthful peace with yourself and honor to the world

WITH OUR BLOOD

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