Finding out that Frances Dana Barker Gage, a white woman, rewrote Sojourner Truth’s famous speech to be more stereotypically “Southern slave” (complete with slurs and misspellings like dat, dere, dey) when Sojourner Truth was actually from New York and spoke only Dutch until she was almost ten and wouldn’t have actually sounded that way linguistically and decidedly did not use the phrase “Ain’t I A Woman?” at all is…whew. And on top of everything, she embellished details about Sojourner Truth’s life (like the number of children she had/how many of them were sold into slavery), wrote that ST said that she could take beatings like a man, and the reception of the speech in the room (she claims ST was called a n*gg*r, earlier accounts say the room was welcoming).
mariah carey: YOU TREATED ME KIIIIIIND (YEAAaAaAaeAEEeeeEEH) SWEET DESTINYYY… (OOOOooOooooOOOH) AND I’LL BE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL… HOLDING YOU SO CLOSE TO ME. PRAYED THROUGH THE NIGHTS (PRAYED THROUGH THE NIGHTS) SOOOOO FAITHFULLYYYYY… so faithfullyyy… faithfully. KNOWING THE ONE THAT I NEEDED WOULD FIND ME EVENTUALLY (FIND ME) I HAD A VISION OF LOV*WHISTLE*EEEEEEEEEE AND IT WAS ALL THAT YOU’VE GIVEN TO ME – I HAD A VISION OF LOVE AND IT WAS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaAooOaaoaOaoAaaoAoaaoaoaLL THAT U TURNED OUT TO BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeee yyyyyeah… MMmmMmm…
love galore 