Why women like Patricia Arquette continue to whitewash Feminism.

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131. We are used to being told what we need to do.

What fight we need to fight. How to do it. What feminism is. We have black feminism as a result. That split has never been healed and may never be. We have concerns that go far beyond the average white feminist, like racism, sometimes from white feminists.
The way things are worded matters. Lords knows I know that. I said something about old white conservative males standing in the way of progress and got ripped by over 400 white duers. For not saying ' not all'. So. If I can deal and understand and discuss that. I think this should be a piece of cake.
Black people fought for their own rights. For her to say that 'women' fought for black rights ahd gay rights, and now we need to fight for 'their' rights, splits black women down the middle. Black men also make less than white men and less than white women. Feminism has no real answers for that fact. We are expected to ignore the discrepancy our men face and just focus on women. We cannot. We have sons and husbands tha face terrible racism and state violence and incarceration. That makes our families much poorer than white families. So no. Black men own nothing. They continue to fight for every scrap.

She should have called fir us tonwork togethef instead of going the ' we did for you, now it's your turn to do for us'. It totally ignores black history. We did for ourselves and eventually we got SOME help. Nobody gave us rights. We took them. Telling people that its your turn makes it seem like the issues of minorities and gays are solved. Work together. No working for the other.