An activist, author and hip-hop artist gave a speech on Monday at the UC Auditorium stressing the role of African-American students on university campuses.
Sister Souljah, author of The Coldest Winter Ever and No Disrespect, came to the University of Tennessee to ask one simple question to the audience of students, “Do you want to change?”
Coming from the ghetto in Bronx, New York, Sister Souljah had to become an activist in order to get change.
“I am an activist because I am a problem solver,” Sister Souljah said. “If there was a problem, I didn’t just sit there and let it happen.”
Everyone in life should have an “I is we and we is us” attitude. Sister Souljah wants people to speak out against anything that is improper.
Sister Souljah stressed the fact that it’s not okay to accept everything that does us wrong. The society we live in today sucks the identity out of you and changes the way you look and the way you act.
“We were all born in the look of the Creator, so everyone already looks good,” Sister Souljah said.
The hip-hop artist proclaimed that college students and teenager’s outlook on life is so low that there is no reason to dream big anymore.
Sister Souljah sees a “less satisfaction, less meaning and less purpose” attitude in society today.
Sister Souljah used her life struggles to try to teach the students at the speech to get involved, participate, solve problems and dream big.
With such a convincing society we have today, Sister Souljah wants not only the people she spoke to Monday night to respect themselves in order to get respect from others, but college students everywhere.
While Sister Souljah was in school she traveled to countries like Spain, Russia, England, France, and Portugal. She graduated from Rutgers University concentrating in American History and African Studies.
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