Aren't I A Woman Response

Sojourner Truth was a brilliant woman with the voice that every woman wanted to hear. Her thoughts were as of every slave: why am I not equal, why am I treated so badly, what can I do to get the recognition of a human being? Sojourner constantly stressed her point in “Aren’t I A Woman?” by repeating it and giving clear examples that pointed to the obvious truth. She attacks many people who deserve to be targeted because they are snatching what is hers and transferring it to someone less deserving right in her face.
Sojourner cleverly attacks both, the race and sex issue at one time. She spoke about how the white woman gets all the respect and recognition of a queen, yet it is said by white men that women deserve these rights. This is where conflict occurs because white or black, she is a woman. This is a question she must address, because she is telling the public she is confused (sarcastically). She goes back and forth between the simple question, “Aren’t I a woman,” and proof that she not only amounts to a woman but amounts to more than most men. She has suffered more than most men that is (obviously) shown here, “I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well,” (Truth 2). This just goes to show how corrupt their society was another thing she states throughout her speech. How can a certain type of woman get all the recognition she needs if another type does all the working and suffering and is considered less than human?
Based on the last fact she comes directly at the cult of true womanhood. How can a black woman be classified as a minority if she does the majority of the work? There is a contradiction that she wanted everyone to see, or better yet, know that she saw it. She did all the things of a true woman and received no recognition and this is not right; she said this to clarify her rights to all people. She even attacks one of their biggest topics: Christianity. She contradicts their statement with this one, “…women can’t have as much rights as men, ‘cause Christ wasn’t a woman. Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him,” (Truth 4). Here she uses repetition to emphasize her statement and cut deeply into the mind of the audience; she makes you think and the italics of the third repeating of the statement is a sign of how much strain she put on this phrase. Christ came from a woman and God, something man was completely powerless over. A woman was given the power to give birth to the most important man in history without the help of another man. This gives her a vital point about her deserving everything right she has earned through her hard work.
Sojourner Truth adds another vital point to conclude, “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again,” (Truth 5). She has endured so much, in many cases more than men, and she is worthy of her rights as a human and as a woman. The true answer to her question is that she is a woman and she needs to receive what is rightfully hers.