Fight Like A Girl And Kick Oppression In The Ass
Nina Simone used her musical genius as a message for equality!
Women are strong in so many ways. But our greatest strength is how to fight with our wit versus our fists. Some of us had no choice but to take it lying down just to survive in a Jim Crow era post slavery. Centuries of mental, physical, and psychological abuse kept people from knowing who they are.
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As generations of people rose up against those who held them down. Many fought with their fists. Others use their skills, minds and talents to undermine their oppressors more generally women. Women have great physical strength, but for some it made more sense to guarantee victory by using their wit and creative minds.
Have you heard the story about the killer cake?
Crazy Christmas Song ⬅️
There’s a famous story about a house slave who along with some of the other slaves planned a great revolt. Rather than attempt to kill the plantation owner and his family with brute physical force.
A brilliant woman devised a killer plan, “pun intended.” She planned to bake a poisonous birthday cake for the slave owner’s daughter. As the family had eaten her trusted delicious baked goods before. They blew out the candles and proceed to indulge. After the family ate slices of the cake, one by one they each fell into a forever sleep. The revolting slaves set the house on fire and escaped without having to fight or run for their lives.
The skilled baker🎂
Rather than use her fists and break a sweat. The skilled baker slave woman used her wit and helped them all attain freedom. Women all over the world have used their heads and not their bodies to fight the good fight.
Though, there are women like Tamara Walcott Deadlift Record (Watch)⬅️
who can deadlift 641 pounds. We also have the women who are petite, elderly, small etc. Whom have to use their minds, hearts and unique talents to survive.
Nina Simone!
Like the great Nina Simone! Her fight for freedom and civil rights came through song. The sixth of eight children. Nina started playing piano at the age of three. The first song she ever learned was “ God Be With you, Till We Meet Again”.
Her first debut was at the age of twelve. Simone was to play a classical recital. Her parents John and Mary Waymon sat front row to watch her perform. Nina later said that during her performance her parents were forced to take seats in the back of the hall to make way for white people.
In response, at the age of 12, Nina refused to play until her parents were moved back to their original seats in the front. That amongst other incidents led her to later involvement in the civil rights movement.
Listen to Nina Simone’s Mississippi Goddam
Simone sings to entirely white crowds. Clapping endlessly to her song where she sings about the overt racial violence and oppression black people suffered at the hands of whites in the south. For Nina music was an outlet for demonstration against the racial injustices and inequality that blacks in America continue to face. There has been countless women who have outsmarted their oppressors in one way or another. And some of those women’s voices can still be heard today.
