[L-Wilson]

T., it is obvious that you know nothing about the women’s liberation movement in America and the racism that was encountered by black women at the hands of white women. An author by the name of bell hooks has written several essays on this subject and I suggest you read some of them. From the times of Susan B. Anthony to the second World War, white women were not fighting for the equal rights of all women. They did not see black women as equal to them just as white men did not see black men as equals. During the war, when most of the men were off fighting and the women were working in factories, white women didn’t even want to share the same restroom as black women. If that was the case, then you know they didn’t want equal pay for black women. Even in the 19th century, Sojourner Truth, a black women’s right activist, was not allowed to make speeches on the same stage with white women. She also coined the term, ‘Aint I a women too?’ This so called women’s movement was just as racist, separatist, and hypocritical to black women as the Declaration of Independence was to all blacks in general. Neither one of these policies were never initiated to include blacks. I also suggest you read up on the Womanist movement. Since black women were getting short-changed from white women, they had to come up with their own movement.

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Name : L-Wilson, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Age : 29, City : Tallahassee, State : FL, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,