Status Updates From Ne suis-je pas une femme ? ...

Reminder how important it is to read primary texts — already starting to understand more context in many seminal works I self studied in the past few years

“Consequently, when they observed black families, they chose to see the independence, will power, and initiative of black women as an attack on the masculinity of black men. Their sexism blinded them to the obvious positive benefits to both black men and women that occurred when black females assumed an active role in parenting.”

“ Logan acknowledges that whites made a concerted effort to perpetuate the myth that all black women were sexually loose and immoral. He comments:
The alleged unchastity of Negro women in general was analyzed in an article in the Atlantic. The practice was attributed to their lack of concern for sexual purity and to the free use that white men made of them.

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thank you bell hooks i love you your a saint

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It in no way diminishes our concern about racist oppression for us to acknowledge that our human experience is so complex that we cannot understand it if we only understand racism. Fighting against sexist oppression is important for black liberation, for as long as sexism divides black women and men we cannot concentrate our energies on resisting racism.
bell hooks