"Dear white women: Black women can't save you"

[Kind of Blue]

179. Could the weren't-always-successful be related to

the Suffragette period when black women were told to stand in the back and silenced or to babysit white women's children and silenced when they attended feminist meeting, as was the case with my mom and her friends when they tried in the early '70s?

It's crystal clear understanding why black women chose civil rights as their focus. As my mom said when she returned within 20 minutes of leaving for the meeting, "What am I fighting for? When white women ask you to join their movement, RUN." LOL. SSDD.

It's clear that feminist leaders of the past failed to recognize that racism and misogyny are tied at the hip. After all these years, I guess I'm not that surprised that a former leader of a NOW chapter finds this post divisive when there are clear reasons for and a well-known fact that white women are the backbone of white supremacy. https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/mothers-of-massive-resistance-white-supremacist-women

By the way, it's also a well-known fact that above all people who benefit disproportionately from the Civil Rights Movement are white women and now ridiculously there on the front-lines in opposition. Is Sisterhood Conditional? White Women and the Rollback of Affirmative Action https://www.jstor.org/stable/4316599 https://www.bustle.com/p/who-does-affirmative-action-benefit-white-women-are-some-of-its-biggest-opponents-74034

I wish that You would stop being divisive and accept reality. Even recently black women saved Virginia and Alabama. The persistent mantra that followed that black women are the backbone of the Democratic Party sickened me because what's really divisive are the two-thirds of non-black Obama voters who stayed home, nearly two-thirds white in 2016, and 12% of Sanders supporters who voted for 45 to which the OP is addressing.