Transform_Jan 14
- Florynce Kennedy
A big part of awareness practice is becoming aware of, and getting free of, what we were taught as children to believe that is not true, and perhaps never was.
Assignment: Today, notice when an unexamined belief robs you of freedom.
Florynce Rae "Flo" Kennedy (February 11, 1916 – December 22, 2000), was an American lawyer, activist, civil rights advocate, and feminist.
Kennedy was born in Kansas City to an African-American family. Her father Wiley Kennedy was a Pullman porter, and later had a taxi business. The second of her parents' five daughters, she had a happy childhood, full of support from her parents, despite experiencing poverty in the Depression and racism in her mostly white neighborhood. She later commented, "My parents gave us a fantastic sense of security and worth. By the time the bigots got around to telling us that we were nobody, we already knew we were somebody."...
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