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She made a conscious decision to target this particular audience of white middle-class women. She had traveled in left-wing labor circles during the s and s but decided in the mids at the height of the anticommunist witch hunts of the McCarthy era to reinvent herself as an apolitical suburban wife.
It is also worth noting that Friedan introduces a profoundly anti-gay theme in The Feminine Mystique that would reverberate in her organizing efforts into the s. The boy smothered by such parasitical mother-love is kept from growing up, not only sexually, but in all ways. From prehistoric times to the present, I believe, rape has played a critical function. She reaches openly racist conclusions in her account of the lynching of Emmett Till. Till was tortured and shot before his young body was dumped in the Tallahatchie River.
Emmett Till was going to show his black buddies that he, and by inference, they could get a white woman and Carolyn Bryant was the nearest convenient object. In concrete terms, the accessibility of all white women was on review. It was a deliberate insult just short of physical assault, a last reminder to Carolyn Bryant that this black boy, Till, had in mind to possess her.
He was not even a man. He was a child who did not understand that whistling at a white woman could cost him his life. Her failure to alert white women about the urgency of combining a fierce challenge to racism with the necessary battle against sexism is an important plus for the forces of racism today.
Barbara Smith, for example, argued for the inclusion of all the oppressed in a speech, in a clear challenge to white, middle-class, heterosexual feminists:. The reason racism is a feminist issue is easily explained by the inherent definition of feminism.
Feminism is the political theory and practice to free all women: women of color, working-class women, poor women, physically challenged women, lesbians, old women, as well as white economically privileged heterosexual women.
Anything less than this is not feminism, but merely female self-aggrandizement. The Combahee River Collective, for example, was made up of women who were veterans of the Black Panther Party and other antiracist organizations. Black feminists such as Angela Davis contested the theory and practice of white feminists who failed to address the centrality of racism. Her book also examines the ways in which the issues of reproductive rights and rape, in particular, represent profoundly different experiences for Black and white women because of racism.
Each of these is examined below. Davis argues that the history of the birth control movement and its racist sterilization programs necessarily make the issue of reproductive rights far more complicated for Black women and other women of color, who have historically been the targets of this abuse.
Racist population-control policies left large numbers of Black women, Latinas, and Native American women sterilized against their will or without their knowledge. In , an Alabama court found that between , and , poor Black teenagers were sterilized each year in Alabama.
The s and s witnessed an epidemic of sterilization abuse and other forms of coercion aimed at Black, Native American, and Latina women—alongside a sharp rise in struggles against this mistreatment. A s study showed that 25 percent of Native American women had been sterilized, and that Black and Latina married women had been sterilized in much greater proportions than married women in the population at large.
By , one-third of women of childbearing age in Puerto Rico—still a US colony—had been permanently sterilized. Yet mainstream white feminists not only ignored these struggles but also added to the problem. In , for example, a time when Native Americans and other women of color were struggling against coercive adoption policies that targeted their communities, Ms.
Wade decision was of paramount importance to all women and the direct result of grassroots struggle. Because of both the economic and social consequences of racism, the lives of Black women, Latinas, and other women of color were most at risk when abortion was illegal. Before abortion was made legal in New York City in , for example, Black women made up 50 percent of all women who died after an illegal abortion, while Puerto Rican women were 44 percent.
That victory however was accompanied at the end of that decade by the far less heralded but equally important victories against sterilization abuse, the result of grassroots struggles waged primarily by women of color. In , the federal government conceded to demands by Native American, Black, and Latina activists by finally establishing regulations for sterilization. These included required waiting periods and authorization forms in the same language spoken by the woman agreeing to be sterilized.
We must continue to fight to dispel many of these myths and take control of our own connections and destiny. Now what? Read the next slide to find out how we move past these misjudgements and get real. Dispelling these myths and introducing them to great single friends we know is the best next step.
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The world's 1 wealth protection haven - claim your free series on retiring and investing 29 November. Replacing the original, now-erased systems of tradition with pseudo-religion is a reprogramming that attacks the Black psyche with images of a white savior. Anything good in Western society has been offered up in white-face. Black people in the US have been overexposed to the sad, solemn images of Africa.
Anything associated with the continent has been discredited and vilified, including our ancient practices. Like many people of African descent, James has found comfort in remixing his spiritual foundation by taking aspects of various faith systems and using what works for him. The Ifa spiritual system is derived from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. Santeria also has its roots in Yoruba culture. For many Afro-Cubans, there exists a duality in which they practice Catholicism publicly, and Santeria privately.
At the heart of Ifa and Santeria are the Orishas, the deities of the religion whom are revered and known for their specific characteristics. Thanks to Beyonce, many of us now know a little something about Yoruba deities like Osun.
When we went away from that…look at us globally. Look at where we are.
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