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A Petition to Uphold Feminism that Doesn’t Exclude Black Women Like Michelle Obama
www.michelleobamawatch.com
Posted by Hawa Bond from the Fackin Truth blog.
On June 17th, I lamented about the lack of mainstream-media-feminist backlash regarding the poor treatment of Michelle Obama. In that post, I specifically noted:
“The ‘double-whammy’ of race and gender make Michelle Obama an irresistible target. And the relative silence from Hillary-supporting feminists reveals a serious flaw in the idea that feminists will defend all women.”
Today, I was pleased to find that Melissa Spatz and Ann Russo of Think Girl.net developed a petition they describe as...
“…a statement of Refusals and Commitments that we hope white feminists might use in creating conversations and mobilizing around our commitments to coalition anti racist feminist analysis, practice, and pedagogy.” (http://thinkgirl.net/?p=4049)
Spatz and Russo agree that in general, white feminists have not defended Michelle Obama with the same zeal as they defend Hillary Clinton’s honor:
“We refuse a feminism that pits sexism against racism, that claims that sexism is more entrenched than racism, and that the existence of sexism means that racism no longer exists. We do not accept the logic that criticizing sexism must be tied to a denial or minimization of racism. Sexism and racism, as well as other forms of oppression, are interconnected. The misogynist spectacle against Hillary Clinton is directly tied to her white, middle-class heterosexuality, which is different from attacks on women who are not white, middle-class and heterosexual. We are dismayed that when media pundits frame Michelle Obama as an angry black woman, or as unpatriotic, or suggest that she should be the target of a “lynching party”, there has been no similar feminist outcry by white women.” [emphasis mine]
Link to the www.ThinkGirl.net blog post.
Link to read and sign the petition. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-false-race-gender-divide
Posted by Hawa Bond from the Fackin Truth blog.
On June 17th, I lamented about the lack of mainstream-media-feminist backlash regarding the poor treatment of Michelle Obama. In that post, I specifically noted:
“The ‘double-whammy’ of race and gender make Michelle Obama an irresistible target. And the relative silence from Hillary-supporting feminists reveals a serious flaw in the idea that feminists will defend all women.”
Today, I was pleased to find that Melissa Spatz and Ann Russo of Think Girl.net developed a petition they describe as...
“…a statement of Refusals and Commitments that we hope white feminists might use in creating conversations and mobilizing around our commitments to coalition anti racist feminist analysis, practice, and pedagogy.” (http://thinkgirl.net/?p=4049)
Spatz and Russo agree that in general, white feminists have not defended Michelle Obama with the same zeal as they defend Hillary Clinton’s honor:
“We refuse a feminism that pits sexism against racism, that claims that sexism is more entrenched than racism, and that the existence of sexism means that racism no longer exists. We do not accept the logic that criticizing sexism must be tied to a denial or minimization of racism. Sexism and racism, as well as other forms of oppression, are interconnected. The misogynist spectacle against Hillary Clinton is directly tied to her white, middle-class heterosexuality, which is different from attacks on women who are not white, middle-class and heterosexual. We are dismayed that when media pundits frame Michelle Obama as an angry black woman, or as unpatriotic, or suggest that she should be the target of a “lynching party”, there has been no similar feminist outcry by white women.” [emphasis mine]
Link to the www.ThinkGirl.net blog post.
Link to read and sign the petition. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-false-race-gender-divide
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