2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Black Lives Matter! Period. Therefore I Have Altered my Primary Intentions. [View all]zazen
(2,978 posts)More women are gunned down by their partners each day than people are by police.
Where's our outrage? Is it because these victims asked for it? Is it more just because they once trusted their abusers? Were they supposed to stop him? People, most POC, gunned down or likely murdered in jail (like Sandra Bland) are seen to be victims because they don't know their perpetrators. Are our dying women not victims also?
A man, who happens to be African American, murdered his partner and children in Houston over the weekend. The press described them as having a "history of conflict." No. He had a history of abuse and she tried to get help. Men of all races do this. Where is the outrage? Where is the movement in the streets?
Why am I not jumping on every stage in the US screaming for this to be addressed?
I hope you'll take some time to reconsider your position and in fact pull your post.
It is outrageous than the most successful movement in a century in demanding economic injustice--which is desperately needed in an era of certain increases in resource scarcity--must pass a litmus test of giving more time to another area of gross injustice.
The "austerity" of neoliberalism is a cover for ethnic cleansing, and it's taking its largest toll on poor communities. Without radical reform, it will get much, much worse.
This is like women being told we always had to take a backseat to abolition and civil rights, from the early 19th century until even 2007-8, on this board, where I was told racism was more important than sexism (I can look up the link). Women's rights activists believed we could work for both. White and black women didn't get the vote until years after uneducated Black men and still today Black women are silenced from getting help when they're abused in their community for fear of seeming to undermine Black men (witness what just happened in Houston). It's a perennial issue with battered women. Where is _their_ help?
I believe we can work for all of this now. I'm a radical feminist and am willing to support movements for economic justice even though no one is up there screaming about the women being murdered every day by intimate partners.
Maybe you can reconsider your position too. With respect,