Do for Self

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
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There's an effort under way to raise $125,000 to put a statue of Fannie Lou Hamer in Ruleville, Mississippi. Please contribute. It is not sufficient to spend one's time complaining about how other people tell history, while making no efforts to tell history ourselves. 

We have to go beyond correctives. 

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2010/12/do-for-self/68608/