mekka okereke :verified:
@janisf @forpeterssake @tarheel
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"There may be a more useful way to look at this, though."
There's not. How you look at it is not more useful than how I look at it.🤷🏿♂️
"Women's suffrage may never have been a thing if she hadn't been able to get the racists on board with it."
That's a lie that white women love to tell themselves. Like Ida B Wells and Frederick Douglass didn't exist. Like there weren't *millions* of non-racist suffrage supporters.
"I don't have a good answer."
Well I do.
mekka okereke :verified:
@janisf @forpeterssake @tarheel
I'm not smarter than you. I'm just less racist, and don't get all snarky and fragile when Black people point out that yes, racist white women are racist. And yes, it is fun! You should try it!
The balance isn't delicate. At all.
And no, you're not eager to see where I lead, so don't say that you are. You're not ready to follow the lead of any Black people. You're not even comfortable acknowledging racism from 100+ years ago!
Come back when you're ready.
Janis
@mekkaokereke @forpeterssake @tarheel Glad you're smarter than I am. Have fun with that.
The dicey fight and delicate balance continues. Feminism, racism, gender discrimination, poverty, star-bellied or not. Scared people will find a way to try to hoard power, and it will always be one of the most difficult things to do to look in the mirror and ask yourself if you're hoarding it, needlessly giving it up, or using it for yourself, someone else, or mindlessly.
Eager to see where you lead.
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