Friday, March 19, 2010

Fanny Lou Hamer


The quote that I liked was "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired". This quote means that she was just tired of living the way she did, she didn't have no freedom and lived in a place where there was racism. Fanny was a rural agricultural hard worker who was not going to give up because she didn't see no end to the cycle of poverty and humiliation for most southern African Americans. Sharecropping was one of their biggest issue because even though they were considered free they still had to give a portion of their crops to the whites to replace the seeds and supplies they had purchased on credit. This meant that they were always going to be in debt with the whites. Fanny was tired and sick of being tired and sick of the whites she couldn't live a normal life without the whites threading her.
At first I didn't really understand this quote but after learning from her life it all makes sense and I think she was an amazing woman who didn't give up for her and her people and for us and our children's in the future.