This is why alot of people (including black women themselves) can't take these social media revolutionaries like Feminista Jones seriously at all. Instead of making black women and their issues the focal point of their message, they devote more energy to unfairly critiquing black men. Seeing so much vitriol spill from their twitters does nothing but cause division between black men and women and the conversations become less about black women and more rhetoric on why "nikkas ain't shyt". The questions alot of black people should be asking is, "what organizations are these women working for to advance the causes of black women ?" "How active are these women in the community to warrant such a platform?" We should never give people a platform to voice an opinion on topics that they haven't earned. Right now, alot of these women are the face of Black Feminism and that does more harm than good to those who are not privy on the subject or those who want to learn more.
These women are an embarrassment to actual Black feminists like Bell Hooks, Angela Davis, and Patricia Hill Collins, who have put themselves on the front lines for the community.
I think some of them have some personal issues too that comes out in their rhetoric. Especially with us as black men as they judge us collectively and not individually.
It just bothers me and saddens me as a black man who treats black women with nothing but the respect and dignity they deserve say things like they wouldn't care if we were gunned down in the streets by racist white cops...or that all we do is chase white women...or that we can't do anything for ourselves...Y'all know I would never throw shade at black women. At all. I come from a family of majority black women...so? That's where my understanding of women comes from. But my understanding of the black struggle on a global scale came from my pops.
That anger and hostility is just...really disappointing. They don't realize white racists get off on seeing us divided and derriding members of our own race for their entertainment and undeserved ego boost. Those types would even repeat these sentiments as fact.
Angela Davis was against the proliferation of the prison industrial complex because she realized what a detriment it was becoming with incarceration rates for black men and how it would hurt the community. So what are current day black feminists really doing to make an impact on the black community other than sell wolf tickets, repeat themselves, contradict themselves, and just tweet all day?
YOUOKSIS....which in concept is all well and good...is just not it. It's another facet of putting more money in the pockets of privatized prison owners and the continued proliferation of the prison industrail complex.
Sad to say we're dismantling our own progress.