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“I’m Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired,”

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Maegan Parker Brooks
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Davis W. Houck
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On December 20, 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer and Malcolm X spoke at the Williams Institutional Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Harlem, New York, for a political rally in support of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party’s (MFDP) upcoming congressional challenge. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Freedom Singers also performed during the rally. This chapter reproduces Hamer’s speech, in which she recounts her personal experiences with oppression and challenged her black Harlem audience to recognize their own oppression. Hamer sought not only to garner support for the MFDP’s impending congressional challenge but also to direct national attention to the endemic racism in America. She argued that African Americans with relatively more rights and with more influence were not using their power to help African Americans with less.

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... However, continuing to do so will mean my efforts to introduce emotional impacts of disability becomes thwarted by those who subtly communicate: lack of appreciation, lack of coping, a bereavement response or a desire to challenge due to another agenda (Bicknell, 1983;Roberts, 2009b). Indeed, I have been battling for people with ID until I am hoarse, and practicing the words made famous by Fannie Lou Hamer "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" ( Brooks and Houck, 2011). I would not realised stepping back could allow a step forward with better strategies to take others on a journey with me (Roberts, 2009c). ...
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