Honest Hive

A S S A T A
Thank you.

If one looks at the history of struggles against racism in the U.S., no change has ever happened simply because the president chose to move in a more progressive direction. Every change has come as a result of mass movements — from the era of slavery, the Civil War, the involvement of Black people in the Civil War, which really determined the outcome. Many people are under the impression that it was Lincoln, who played the major role, and he did as a matter of fact help to accelerate the move toward abolition, but it was the decision on the part of slaves to emancipate themselves and to join the Union Army — both women and men — that was primarily responsible for the victory over slavery. It was the slaves themselves and of course the abolitionist movement that led to the dismantling of slavery. When one looks at the civil rights era, it was those mass movements — anchored by women, incidentally — that pushed the government to bring about change.