'I live in the city where Dred Scott challenged his slave status for years and was unrelenting in pursuit of freedom for his family until the courts finally granted it twelve years later. To me, that’s a beautiful and inspiring example of struggle. Yet, it seems like the words of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Taney have permeated the minds and spirits of the city and ultimately the country: Blacks have no rights that whites are bound to respect.
'Unless our inertia takes us back to the days in this country where people of color and women had no rights, the imperative is clear. We must unite the masses of people to rise up and provide a strategic plan for organizing our communities to victories.'
Jamala Rogers
BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board
member and columnist, founder and
Chair Emeritus of the Organization for
Black Struggle in St. Louis, author of
The Best of the Way I See It – A
Chronicle of Struggle.
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