Someone’s ready to smack some bitches. Frederick Douglass is mad as hell and ready to get some shit done. I can not believe there were people who could listen to this man say anything and think that black people were inferior. He’s probably one of the smartest people who ever lived. Can you imagine what it would have been like to see this angry, intelligent, passionate, self-confident, and powerful man speak about one of the things that he was most passionate and angry about?
In a memorium upon his death, suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote:
“Trained in the severe school of slavery, I saw him first before a Boston audience, fresh from the land of bondage. He stood there like an African prince, conscious of his dignity and power, grand in his physical proportions, majestic in his wrath, as with keen wit, satire and indignation he portrayed the bitterness of slavery, the humiliation of subjection to those who in all human virtues and capacities were inferior to himself. His denunciation of our national crime, of the wild and guilty fantasy that men could hold property in man, poured like a torrent that fairly made his hearers tremble. Thus I first saw him, and wondered as I listened that any mortal man should have ever tried to subjugate a being with such marvelous powers, such self-respect, such intense love of liberty.”
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Malaysia’s pregnant shooter, Nur Suryani Mohamed Taibi, has made the trip to London and will compete in next week’s 10m rifle event, just one month before she’s due to give birth to a baby girl. She’s not the first pregnant Olympian in history, but at 34 weeks is believed to be the furthest along.
The 29-year-old qualified for the Games at the Asian Shooting Championships in January, days after finding out she was pregnant. At the time, she had hoped her health would allow her to compete in London. So far so good.
Doctors say Nur Suryani is fine to compete. One of the few concessions she’ll make is leaving London soon after her event on the advice of doctors who don’t want her flying after 35 weeks.
In a sport that requires precision, calm and concentration, how will Nur Suryani compete with a child moving around her womb? “I will talk to the baby before I compete,” she said in April. “[I’ll say] no kicking, stay calm for one hour and 15 minutes only please.”
She understands that some may criticize her Olympic quest but isn’t fazed by it.
“Most people said I was crazy and selfish because they think I am jeopardizing my baby’s health,” she told reporters. “My husband said grab it as this is a rare chance which may not come again. Also, I am the mother. I know what I can do. I am a stubborn person.”
Nur Suryani is the 47th-ranked shooter in the world and a long shot for a medal. She also qualified for the 50m rifle competition but can’t compete in it for obvious reasons. That event has a section that requires athletes to lie on their stomachs, a position not exactly conducive to late-term pregnancy.
Followup: Pregnant shooter misses final, treasures experience (USA Today)
Hijabi’s still ballin
Fuckin’ hero man. She can do things pregnant that most people can’t do at all. I hope that baby becomes an Olympian one day.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7slpcKamb1roaku3o1_500.jpg)
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