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This is why women of color can’t trust white feminists

October 10, 2011

feminism, Nigger, racism, whiteness

 

These signs were displayed by women attending the Slut Walk NYC protest.

This is exactly why me and other women of color have been hesitant to embrace the Slut Walk movement. White feminists continue to reduce, erase and trivialize racism and other intersecting oppression black women face on a daily basis. I would love to stand in solidarity with the Slut Walk movement, but I just can’t because women like the one holding this sign have no concept of what it means to face oppression on more than one front.

H/T to The Crunk Feminist Collective, which has an awesome post regarding the photo above and the ongoing racism plaguing the white feminists.

  • http://profiles.google.com/aaryn730 aaryn belfer

    The woman holding that sign does not represent me. I am also offended by it this woman’s sign, and speak out daily in my life when confronted with such narrow, crooked views, be they expressed by privileged white feminists or white coworkers or white neighbors or what have you.

    I enjoy reading your blog.  

  • Anonymous

    It really saddens me that this sign is the only thing the blogosphere has been talking about from the NYC SlutWalk. There are so many other pictures we could be talking about. So many men and women of all colors, ages and creeds, but we gotta focus on this person. 

    • New Black Woman

      It saddens me to see white feminist continue to claim solidarity with women of color, but insists on asking us to put our struggle as women over our struggle with being persons of color.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t get why black women would think that they have more in common with white women than they do with their black men. they only thing you have in common with a white woman is that both have vaginas. your struggle is not the same as theirs. Feminism has just broken up the family values of black folk and encouraged more abortions.

    • http://newblackwoman.com New Black Woman

      While I’m not a fan of feminism, I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say it’s “broken up the family values of black folks and encouraged more abortions.” Do you have any hard data to prove that seemingly erroneous statement?

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