Black men are allowed to talk about the unique oppression they experience at the hands of white women. That doesn’t make them a misogynist.
White women violently uphold white supremacy just as much as white men do. They often weaponize their “feminine purity” to get away with oppressing people that are not white. They often choose whiteness of feminist solidarity.
Read:
Women, Race, Class by Angela Davis
Ain’t I A Women by Bell Hooks.
& I am in no way saying that Black men can’t be misogynists. Black men often perpetuate misogynior. I’ve just been seeing a lot of white women deflecting accountability by playing this card and I’m ~tired of it.
Anyways good morning. Let’s see how long before this really pisses people off.
Y’all love to praise intersectionality when it benefits you, but it’s not always about the intersections of a single person and how oppression can compound. It’s also about how different groups can all experience oppression and interact with each other.
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