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The March Continues…

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I just listened to President Obama speak, today marks the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have A Dream Speech.

What do you say on a day like this when although we have come so far there are issues, still we must march. I am so very grateful for civil rights leaders that stood up, fought to be heard and forged a path for the Civil Rights Act.  To hear and see President Obama standing in the same place MLK did 50 years ago is historic in so many ways, but still we march.

Race is still an issue, people still see color as an impediment, so still we march.  Poverty and unemployment rates are still high within the black communities, still we have to march.

Education, health, income disparities are still issues for all people in this country, still we must march.  “Change is built on willingness”, we “Hunger for a purpose” we must have the “Courage to turn toward each other not away from each other”, President Obama stated.  I think we suffer from the same underlying problem that existed not so long ago, an issue of superiority and disregard for the basic tenants of human life. Why do we think in terms of black white asian or anything else, we are human above color, that is what we share. 

Until we have the courage to move toward each other as humans with the common purpose of uplifting one another and having the willingness to bring our differences to the forefront and embrace it all, then we continue to MARCH for those that fought to uplift us and for the generations not yet here, in order to bring about and exemplify change.

Above being black I am HUMAN, so I will continue the journey…

Fashionably yours,
~Danalee Francesca

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Should we be doing something?

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As black attorneys that feel like the verdict in the Zimmerman case was absurd should we be doing something to bring about change?  Yes, I believe so but in all honesty I don’t know what.

Perhaps in a small way we can all do something to break down this racial divide that is in my opinion getting worse although we think we have come so far.  Not sure why people are in denial about it being a race issue.  Perhaps the first step is recognizing that there is a racial divide and that people sometimes do get away with murder based on their skin color. Let’s be honest and call it what it is. 

In my own way I will do my part to bring about social change not because its fashionable but because like Charles Hamilton Houston, Ruth Whitehead Whaley, Charlotte E. Ray, Thurgood Marshall, Julian Bond, First Lady Michelle Obama, President Obama and the countless other attorneys that have worked to bring about social change for me to be an attorney, I too should do it for the Trayvon’s and others that have suffered an injustice.

~Danalee Francesca

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