black and beautiful

it is always healthy to get away from the the black hole of current events and look to our past to find inspiration. this from that great woman Sojourner Truth :
Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?