Anita Hill Speech

I will be honest by starting off that I did not know who Anita Hill was. When talking with a couple of classmates they had told me that she was a really good speaker and could not wait to go see her. I began to have thoughts run through my head of what she may has done and what is she doing today. On the syllabus it said Sojourner Truth Lecture Series. When reading this I thought that her speech was going to be all about the life of Sojourner Truth.

Anita began her lecture about sexual harassment. I did not know that because of her testimony that sexual harassment is not taken lightly throughout the work force. I thought about while she was talking if she had never decided to take the leap of faith and let what was going on in her life known if everything would be different today. Also that if Anita did not report this harassment would any woman after her have. I thank her for her courage because I have to been a victim of some very crude sexual harassment at a former job. I sit back and think that because of her everyone has a voice now and I also think that if I did not have that option of reporting the things that were happening to me would things have been taken further than they had already been taken.

I really liked her talk about the housing industry in how it was and where it stands to day. Almost every class you take or some point in life you here someone say the "American Dream". Of course everyone wants to live in the big house, have a successful job, nice car, etc., but the sad fact it is most likely going to never happen there will always be people that are a few steps behind the front runners. One of the questions she asked was "How truky are we at home with an African American President?" She is right because even though we have an African American president in office it still does not make up for the fact that some African Americans are unable to afford to live the "American Dream". She had talked about how homes put the strain on women whether they be single or married. In today's society majority of all women work they no longer are the stay at home moms, but being in the work force is necessary to be able to provide for their families. One of the last things she said was that hopefully hopefully we can have the upcoming generations to not end up where they started. I believe in that. We need to not have the upcoming generations repeating the vicious cycle that has been repeating itself all throughout history. I know my parents ended their life cycle through me, for I am the first one on both sides of my family to go to college. So, we as society need to start caring more about the upcoming generations and showing them more of hope and having them be more involved with their lives and education.