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Out Of Africa Theory is a lie.
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...88#post3431588
And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
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I came to the realization very early on that I was very choosy about feminism growing up. You could ask my mother or any of the women in my family who Betty Friedan was and they would look at you with question marks written all over their faces. Many African-American women don't have a frame of reference for the feminist movement primarily because older generations' time was monopolized by the Civil Rights movement. Moreover, the economic realities addressed in feminism never struck a chord with black women because the majority have always participated in the workforce to some extent.
I would like for everyone to be as happy with themselves as possible. Just makes my life so much easier...
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An example: if I were to think of what my grandmother would have wanted from a women's movement it would've been support helping her husband find work that was more than seasonal and unionized (this was segregation era so damn near impossible) so she wouldn't have to leave her children name farm to go to rich white women's houses raising kids not their own.
Ironically it was the (White) Feminist movement that said work was liberation.
Another: Among a very few self described feminists some will 100% fully believe "all men should die" not understanding a white women could literally get any man killed just by accusation hundreds were killed in lynchings from white girls who said they did something that was not overtly submissive.
White feminist women have never understood how even in their honestly disenfranchised position how for the most part they still had power over men of any other race and were farthest above any other women in this country.
That and they were paternalistic to the black women wanting a soapbox to voice their opinions and start fighting for not only black women of all class but poor women in general.
To this day you see a pandering in most feminist circles where they either refuse or pay lip service to class/race/culture like taking over any topic regarding women movements around the world NOT of their making or not even mentioning them (think Aba Women's Riots) or they totally twist the words of black feminists for their own purposes.
Things are slowly changing most women who aren't white are doing wayyy more work together and I would say among my circle we generally roll eyes whenever some dumb mess is said then get back to work helping our communities.
"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me." -Zora Neale Hurston
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Exactly. Moreover, I never grew up feeling a sense of inferiority to males. That particular form of oppression didn't really touch my own family because in our household, while my father was alpha of the pack, he actually WANTED my sister and I to be as self-sufficient as possible for pragmatic reasons. We pretty much operated under the law of necessity. If it needs to be done, and you're there...then do it. So when I encounter gender battles, I literally want to scream because they don't make a lot of practical sense to me.
I would like for everyone to be as happy with themselves as possible. Just makes my life so much easier...
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I am allergic to feminists.
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I really feel that stems from a history of black women not being able to be seen as weak or fragile. There was NO pedestal for us & our female ancestors worked right along the fields with men.
The gender battle ofcourse does exist in our community but how it manifests is totally different because of our different history as racialized peoples.
"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me." -Zora Neale Hurston
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"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me." -Zora Neale Hurston
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