Literacy and the Black Woman

Harriet Tubman was mentioned in this piece by Sharon M. Darling, and I agree with the statement made about her being literate because she led people to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

Literacy means more than just reading and writing. Literacy is being able to communicate with your peers and people in your society and environment. With Black women, it was difficult to become literate due to their masters not allowing them to learn how to read and write. To this day, I believe that the reason that black women are ignorant to literacy is because they are aware of what their ancestors had to go through with their slave masters and they have not been formally told that all it takes is faith and determination to end that cycle.

Black women are illiterate due to problems that society has mainly caused, with sterotypes. We, as women, need to look beyond that, or use the negativity in a positive way in order to take literacy in our hands and use it to better ourselves. We need to stop allowing the media to determine what our roles in the world will be. Decisions should be made on our own and the motivation is not available for black women, then religion can and should be used. A spiritual edge will help women with motivation and also give them faith in their success.
So instead of wasting time asking what is to be done, I think that that valuable time should be spent figuring out ways to make literacy a priority for black women.