These days and times are trife for Black women. You will rarely hear me speak from the stance of victim-hood, as i try my hardest to keepagency on mines. My rationale is that as long as you are reactionary, someone elsewill always be setting your agenda and you will not gain any sustainabletraction. However the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hillary's Faustian Deal’
For Colored Girls who Considered Homicide When Patricarchy was Enough
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Violence and the 2008 Presidential Race
Saturday, May 24th, 2008There are two stories that I have arisen in the past two daysthat have me thinking about violence in thepresidential election. The first is the story related to theabove image of Michelle Obama. It was allegedly created by anObama supporter who is apparently completelyignorant of the legacy slavery, lynching for African Americans.Professor Kim wrote an [...]
Benny McIntyre ain’t Voting for No Black Man.
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Class mobility is mind boggling. I remember being in highschool and Jua’s momma told us that once we graduatedfrom college “that where we come from is going to be irrelevant topeople“. I understood this to mean that people would look at our clothingand the way that we spoke and come to their own conclusions about [...]
Thank You Hillary, for Having a Spine
Monday, April 28th, 2008The personal is political. When I was a teenager, I introduced Marian Wright Edelman ata conference. She is an Advocate with a capital A, and it was an honor.Imagine my surprise when I learned that Edelman gave Hillary her first job out of college and Hillary turned aroundand fiddled while Bill signed the welfare “reform” [...]
Saying Sexism is Worse than Racism is Like Saying Chattel Slavery is Worse than the Holocaust
Saturday, February 16th, 2008I will never forget being in undergrad when we werereading Beloved. Someone began drawing a parallelbetween Chattel Slavery and the Holocaust. Our professor responded cautioning us against makingthat comparison saying that the risk in comparing myunjust pain to your unjust pain only serves to undermine what both groups of people suffered. She went on to [...]
