A provocative subject. One should explore this equation. I read this a few times. One thing about the article is the publication's editors do not allow the words 'sex' and 'sexual' to be printed. It is indicative of what ails the progress of consciousness. I agree with the written commentary. Feminism seems to have been about white women, and Black women forging their own way with difficulty in American society created a survival skill that had nothing to do with 'white privilege'. Black women's feminism is based upon what their hands have wrought, their imagination creates, their fear propels into action, and what their wombs birth into the spheres of consciousness and practical reality.
There are distinctions between the two classes and definitions of womanhood, and the expectations of these mothers for their daughters have similarities that should bring them together, but often don't because of race, class, and white supremacy. The relationship white women have with power is different from the relationship and understanding Black women have of power. Things come together in the work place around sexual politics, but the economic base of each woman's reality sings different songs in different keys.
There has been change. There has been advancement, but the nation's myths are still in place, and the American social structure is still based upon the tenets of slavery. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 7.30.13
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