There is a Michelle Obama in every girl, in every part of the continent, with the picture below she certainly wasn't told women are not to be seen nor heard. Michelle Obama was not married off as a child bride, to a rotund , artificial denture toothed grandpa, nor did they invoke a fertility ritual on her through a compulsory genital mutilation custom and she certainly makes her health decisions, nor her fate in thy hands of her husband. Michelle Obama was not denied an education nor is American woman and girl. Her parents did not choose her brothers over her, she was not told she was not equal to men, certainly Obama does not see her as beneath him nor has he become violent that they bore, only daughters, and no male child as heir apparent to the family name.
The bottom line is the value we place on a thing isn’t it? So I ask us all, “what value do we place in general on the girl child and women in our society”?
The bottom line is the value we place on a thing isn’t it? So I ask us all, “what value do we place in general on the girl child and women in our society”?
True values is the answer, not wishful thinking and lusting after the finished product that Michelle Obama is today, but, that our society changes it’s mindset of women as subordinates and start putting in the sacrifices that her society continues to invest in, in ensuring that every female child‘s human right is unquestionable and liberty to entitlements that gives her the chance to maximise her human and capital resources with her dignity intact.
It is not too late to stand and up change all that for the good of us all don’t wait to do the right thing, change your perception, educate your mind.
Stand up for a girl today, stand up for their rights. Join the rest of the world, in marking the 1st International day of the girl child, October 11, 2012.
