“I’m not a woman and a person of colour – I’m simultaneously both.”
Any feminist woman of color (and probably a lot of white feminists) can tell you that the feminist and the anti-racist movements have had trouble playing nice, and this juicy Barack Obama vs Hillary Clinton race has brought things to a head in a very publicly visible way.
Thea Lim recently posted this at Racialicious:
Hillary has been treated badly because she is a woman, period. Why does that fact have to be followed by a snipe about how racism doesn’t really exist anymore? I don’t feel the need to discount the ways Hillary has had a hard time due to sexism, or deny that sexism exists, in order to make a case for the fact that racism exists.
That was probably a terrible choice of quote because while it very succinctly sums up her point, the rest of the post is a much more passionate exploration of her frustrations. Do read.
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June 19th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
It did what a blockquote is supposed to do, which is to get you to read the entire piece. And Lim has a point: a society with residual levels of racism likely also has residual levels of sexism as well, so there’s at least one factor which could be uniting the squabbling groups.