that you can type this while seated in an air-conditioned office.
do you know how many of your grandmothers endured rape and torture just so YOU could sit there where you sit now? b/c those women could've just given up. they could've jumped off the side of the ship during the middle passage - as many ppl did. i dunno if you saw 12 Years a Slave - but in the movie one slave asks another to kill her. b/c she can't take it. that could've been your ppl. but they didn't. and they didn't (at least some of them) in part b/c they wanted a better life for YOU. YOU are their victory. they didn't get it in their lifetime. they're getting it now through us.