"They did not ask to be accepted but declared themselves the Americans that perhaps few others recognized but that they had always been deep within their hearts." Isabel Wilkerson, Warmth of Other Suns.
This is the last "official" part of her book and it is inspiring. Everyone deserves freedom, despite what society wants them to believe. This is why African american's as a group are so strong. We have endured such unbelievable struggles. From slavery, to Jim Crow, to segregation, to the "equality" that we face today no other race has endured what we have. We deserve freedom just as crucial as people want us to believe that we don't.
As a group we deserve our "Forty Acres and a Mule" and it's sad that we'll never get what we deserve.
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