Oct. 24, the day before the actual Million Woman March, 46 women from SIUC boarded a bus in spite of the negativity projected from the media and from uninformed people. This was the second glance at heaven necessary to continue the black community in At-one-ment with the Creator, self and others.

We had a vision in mind of what to expect because our brothers had gone before us to demonstrate what was considered The Impossible. Two million black men gathered at the nation’s capital two years before hugging, crying and showing the utmost respect for God, self and others. This inspired women on national and local levels to begin a call for not only the other half but the better half of the black community to continue the spirit of responsibility, reconciliation, atonement, respect, repentance and resurrection.

When God created Himself and recognized the need to create a balance, He created woman who is the second self of Him to help the family, community, nation and world to follow His examples. This is why our black men had to march first.

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As a result of the Million Man March, black men are in the process of regaining the strength to become the producers and providers for the black community that had been stripped from their nature since slavery. We understood the need for the Million Man March, and we understand the need for a Million Woman March. This is why the marches were, and are still, being produced by the black community. No one knows the pain or struggles of the black community like black people.

So to those who opposed the Million Woman March, I am saying, We really don’t give a damn, unless you are willingly and sincerely wanting to help establish equality and justice for all not by pen or lip service, but by action.

As a black woman who helped organize march participants at SIUC, I was only assured at the Million Woman March that hope still is within the black community.

As we traveled to Philadelphia, I saw that the spirit of the Million Man/Woman March began on the bus and I thank God for bringing us together in sisterhood to talk about our family problems and to open discussion. At the march, women were from Detroit, New York, California, Connecticut, Texas, the Bahamas, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Africa and many other places across the map.

This glance at heaven revealed how Dick Gregory and Congresswoman Maxine Waters are working on the investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency pushing drugs into the black community to fund weapons for the military. Gregory announced at the Million Woman March, If the government does not give all the actual facts on the CIA bringing drugs into he black community, then we should take action to boycott Thanksgiving and Christmas. Waters said she is convinced that the CIA brought drugs into the black community. All of us know that drugs and guns come on trucks and trains, boats and planes and we don’t even own a canoe for the purpose of transporting drugs into the United States.

At the Million Women March, we were told a nation can rise no higher than its woman. Women are the first teachers. If women have been brought down from being the mothers of civilization, then the nation falls afterward.

I thank those from SIUC who helped to make the trip a reality. I thank Minister Farrakhan for the vision of the Million Man March that helped to produce the Million Woman March. I thank God for the messages from Winnie Mandela, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Minister Ava Muhammad, Dick Gregory, the daughters of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, Minister Benjamin Chavis Muhammad and many others that were given at the march.

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I want every woman who didn’t have the blessing of taking this glance at heaven to know that the Creator is calling on us as black women to do a special job.

For a nation can rise no higher than its woman.