Any idea of black progress that fails to give at least equal space to black women is illegitimate. The idea that black women do not face unique and pressing issues within the black community that deserve to be heard and addressed immediately is laughable. It's literally, literally the same maneuver we condemn white people for doing to black people. People crowing about divineness is honestly dogwhistle bullshyt. Black people have been told for generations to pipe down because speaking out is divisive. There is nothing divisive about bringing the issues our sisters face to the forefront as well. I mean, do you not at least give pause before you consider the optics of telling black women to wait their turn, we'll get to their problems later? In 2016? Telling black women that they have to choose between the socialized oppression of race and the domestic (and socialized) oppression of gender is antithetical to black progression, and the reason intersectionality is a critical concept. I'll be goddamned if I hand my daughters a world where they have to make that distinction because their fate is in the hands of a movement controlled by black men. And the idea that black women's progression is automatically tied to black men's progression is belied by both history and current facts. Black women have revoltingly high rates of intra-racial domestic violence and sexual assault perpetrated against them, and all we have to say to them is "we'll get to that later, trust us, the ones who are predominantly doing it to you." We treat our women like shyt, and they don't have the same socially ingrained protections that white women have. So no, it's not race above all when your concept of "race" has an ingrained gender hierarchy. Bringing the historically shunned perspective of women to the foreground is only destructive if you're misogynist. Just like I wouldn't fight for a gender equality movement that disparages and marginalizes race, I wouldn't fight for a race equality movement that disparages and marginalizes gender.