the combahee river statement left me a lot to think about, discussing how black women went through a lot of struggles back then and still do now is something to think of, you would think back then because women were all fighting for the same cause some sort of respect would be given to all but I guess that was not the case for back women. they still had to fight for racism as well as sexisms. the following quote ” we might use our position at the bottom to make a clear leap into revolution action. If black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all ” to men this quote symbolizes how black women where seem to be placed at the very bottom of everything , they would still fight to make sure that those women who were placed last had someone fight for their right as well. black women who were victims of racism from white men and women and also were victims of sexism from their black men had no one to fight for them till a black group of feminist came along considering white women were fighting for the rights of their fellow whites. to answer the following quote “identity politics”? I believe it means that women identify themselves within politics meaning they called themselves the national black feminist organizations to have their own way of being represented to the public while they were fighting for thousands of black women all over the country, and I see this too in the documentary Paris is burning how black gay men found a way to identify themselves as drag queens among other things so they public knew how to and how they should be addressed and not how everyone decided to called them. not so long I go I too watched a tv show very similar to this documentary that show how many gay black men struggled a lot with racisms and oppression back in the 90s as well as disgust from their family members because of what they chose to be, also not to mention how many people in the community died and struggled with HIV/AIDS. I believe race and gender have something to contribute to capitalims if women hadn’t fought for their rights we wouldn’t have women working which adds more to the capitalism of this country as well as race, why? because if it wasn’t because of black people that were used as slaves this country wouldn’t be where it is right now which again contributes a lot to the capitalist of this country. our economic system relies heavily on African Americans and immigrants.
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Hey Sheena,
It is sad that black women have to still fight against these oppressions. When are we as a society going to have equal rights and love pass race and gender? I have never experience racism until I came to this country and sadly it came from a black man trying to impress his white leader. I admire how much this collective preaches their politics and stand up for us women.
I agree with Talisha, it’s been so long and we still are fighting against the same issue which should be fixed by now.
I agree I didn’t experience racism until I came from the Dominican Republic to the united States. I experienced it while working in my job I deal with a lot of customers and most of them are white women and many of them still have the same mentally as if they were back in the day and it’s very sad.
Sheena, I really love your statement where you say that the women of the Combahee River Collective gave themselves their own title to identify themselves in the same way that the men in the documentary identified themselves as drag queens. I didn’t really think of this and what it means for these groups of people until you pointed this out. This gives these groups a sense of empowerment where they can define themselves and not let anyone else do this for them. I think that really sets the precedent forth so that no one tries to tell them who they are and they are SURE of who they are, regardless of what anyone else might label them as.