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Done.
Yea, I said it.
I know alot of y'all would like to think that the majority of black feminists are black male hating crazies, but this is not the case. After being on tumblr and following many self-proclaimed black feminists I realize they are one of the greatest allies the black community has to offer. In the past couple of months black feminists and black women have shown the hypocrisy of modern day feminism (white feminism).
Feminism is a great concept...equality for women, respect of abilities, ending unfair wages and pay for women in the workforce, etc that I support 100%...the but modern day version of feminism is steeped in racism. Basically this form of feminism has no desire to even address that there is anything wrong with the system. It's just fine in their mind, they just want a seat at the white supremacist table and want to continue the legacy of white privilege. They have no interest in smashing the patriarchy they benefit from so they say...
Don't get it twisted. I know the game these birds be playing. Whenever they say, they want equality and support for women and all that stuff...they mean WHITE women. Because in their mind (the mind of the dominant society), the only real men and women are white...everybody else is just a secondary. So with that sentiment said, it's obvious that they have a reason why they purposely shun the opinions, words, thoughts, and fail to recognize the efforts women of color...especially black women have made towards the feminist movement.
By shunning black feminism..you are shunning the works and efforst of people like Angela Davis, member of the black panthers and an advocate of abolishing the current prison system. Harriet Tubman, the great mind behind the underground railroad that led many enslaved blacks to freedom in the north during slavery. Francis Cress Welsing, a prominent black female author that created the "Cress Theory Of Color Confrontation" which explored how white supremacy functions. Ida B Wells who was an early leader of the civil righst movement and was one of the first suffragists, Rosa Parks, the first lady of the civil rights movement (which led to giving the right to vote to everybody else other than white men and women) who refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white man when segregation was the law of the land, and many others.
What's the modern day version of (white) feminist representation? Sex In The City...a show about privileged white women having random sex with rich white men and buying shoes and purses. Girls. A show about a bunch of trust fund gentrifiers living in Brooklyn where the only people of color are casted as "the help" and the main character (Lena Dunham) admits in a book to secually molesting her sister from one years old to god knows when and doesn't receive any negative repurcussions from it (in fact, she won several awards after the fact). And other tripe.
Black feminism is necessary because black women are more than likely to be assaulted than any other group of people.
Black feminism is neccessary because black women make up the MAJORITY of female prisoners in America.
Black feminism is neccessary because black women are three times as likely to be unemployed than white women (whoohooo sisterhood!).
So when you say black feminists are whatever...you are negating the influence of those that are here to support and enrich not only black people...but the human race in general.
Happy Black History Month y'all.
I know alot of y'all would like to think that the majority of black feminists are black male hating crazies, but this is not the case. After being on tumblr and following many self-proclaimed black feminists I realize they are one of the greatest allies the black community has to offer. In the past couple of months black feminists and black women have shown the hypocrisy of modern day feminism (white feminism).
Feminism is a great concept...equality for women, respect of abilities, ending unfair wages and pay for women in the workforce, etc that I support 100%...the but modern day version of feminism is steeped in racism. Basically this form of feminism has no desire to even address that there is anything wrong with the system. It's just fine in their mind, they just want a seat at the white supremacist table and want to continue the legacy of white privilege. They have no interest in smashing the patriarchy they benefit from so they say...
Don't get it twisted. I know the game these birds be playing. Whenever they say, they want equality and support for women and all that stuff...they mean WHITE women. Because in their mind (the mind of the dominant society), the only real men and women are white...everybody else is just a secondary. So with that sentiment said, it's obvious that they have a reason why they purposely shun the opinions, words, thoughts, and fail to recognize the efforts women of color...especially black women have made towards the feminist movement.
By shunning black feminism..you are shunning the works and efforst of people like Angela Davis, member of the black panthers and an advocate of abolishing the current prison system. Harriet Tubman, the great mind behind the underground railroad that led many enslaved blacks to freedom in the north during slavery. Francis Cress Welsing, a prominent black female author that created the "Cress Theory Of Color Confrontation" which explored how white supremacy functions. Ida B Wells who was an early leader of the civil righst movement and was one of the first suffragists, Rosa Parks, the first lady of the civil rights movement (which led to giving the right to vote to everybody else other than white men and women) who refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white man when segregation was the law of the land, and many others.
What's the modern day version of (white) feminist representation? Sex In The City...a show about privileged white women having random sex with rich white men and buying shoes and purses. Girls. A show about a bunch of trust fund gentrifiers living in Brooklyn where the only people of color are casted as "the help" and the main character (Lena Dunham) admits in a book to secually molesting her sister from one years old to god knows when and doesn't receive any negative repurcussions from it (in fact, she won several awards after the fact). And other tripe.
Black feminism is necessary because black women are more than likely to be assaulted than any other group of people.
Black feminism is neccessary because black women make up the MAJORITY of female prisoners in America.
Black feminism is neccessary because black women are three times as likely to be unemployed than white women (whoohooo sisterhood!).
So when you say black feminists are whatever...you are negating the influence of those that are here to support and enrich not only black people...but the human race in general.
Happy Black History Month y'all.
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