I see people of color to be the backbone and the building blocks to society. So once we help the ones that were placed on the bottom, it would cause the whole tower of oppression to collapse. I think that women of color have it much harder than men of color just because the women were seen as less than an object. I believe that if we can raise poc women up the ladder, then it would allow others who fall under the same oppression to rise with them. As Black Women, there are many different types of oppression they face in comparison to white women. When the women\u2019s rights movement was in session to get the right to vote, black women still weren\u2019t allowed to, not because they were women, but because they were black. Even though all the women in the states were fighting for the same thing, equal rights to vote, that didn\u2019t acknowledge or represent black women. I believe that the Combahee River Collective\u2019s meaning behind \u201cidentity politics\u201d is more self made. So, they focus more on their identities, race, and other forms of identities to form their own political standards instead of focusing on the big group. This is seen in Paris Is Burning because most of the women there had their own forms of identity politics. They place boundaries and situations from inside their circle and outside their circles. These identity politics form what political views we want to follow based on how we view ourselves. When it comes to capitalism, race and gender are very important. It is especially when the both are intertwined. Race and gender have always been a problem in humanity because there has always been a race and gender which is seen as superior. Those being the white race and male gender. This can connect back to capitalism because capitalism can be seen as having hierarchies and if you don\u2019t fit in being a white man, then most likely you are at the bottom of the spectrum. What I\u2019ve noticed from capitalism is that people like me, a poor woman of color, can not move out of this poverty. Whenever one tries to move up the system, it is only made harder for us to continue and eventually we are bumped back down to the bottom. This system was made so that people like me cannot prosper. That\u2019s what race and gender have to do with capitalism in my opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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