After Dana Pedersen (1) came and spoke to our class I had to really look at what freedom means. Our freedom is only as good as our individual options and the choices we make based on those options.
As far as we, as females (white or black) have come, there is still quite a distance to travel. Women can vote. We can own property. We can have a good job.
But we still aren't men. We don't get paid as much for the same position. We continue being viewed as sex objects and are identified as such daily in advertising and across the board in the entertainment industry. We are raising up our daughters in a society where Brittany Spears and Christina Aguilara are role models as they roll around a floor half naked.
As our options increase (and they do daily) with education and people like Dana Pedersen to remind us not to be blinded by all the glitz, we need to stand as individuals in our homes, in our jobs, in our churches, and in our communities. We need to be involved in politics locally and globally.
We have a voice... our small voice gets louder when a second voice chimes in and becomes a choir to be reckoned with as each individual joins. Continue the fight, ladies! Educate yourselves and your children and then let your voice be heard!
(1) Dana Pedersen - Speech Instructor at West Georgia Technical College (http://www.linkedin.com/in/danamp)
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