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In reply to the discussion: how many of these early black feminists do you know? [View all]RBStevens
(227 posts)Perhaps I could have worded it like, 'by implying that my advocacy/energy would be better spent on racism because racism is a *bigger issue*'
Yes, racism is a really big issue but so is sexism. I choose to expend the political energy I can afford on women's issues and by extension, since half of all people of color are female, I am also expending a good deal of that energy on racism because not all female people are white.
My point is that it is normally men who are asking those of us who focus on women's girls' issues to re-focus our energy to a *main* cause that includes men. And women's issues (all of them, including racism) do not.
One edit, I want to add that women who experience racism and sexism do have a double burden of course, no question about that!