I would like to start off with Allan G. Johnson’s Patriarchy, the system. He makes a point when it comes to men thinking that they are the patriarchy. Somehow men believe that they automatically own rights to everything, meaning the government, making laws, owning women, and controlling women especially. There is this unspoken word or rule that men run the show. Truth is there is not any way to make this untrue because our government is mostly run by a bunch of old white men. The oppression of women comes from men. He explains how maybe we should not blame one person or a broken system, instead of placing blame on society or men, that we should realize where the problem is and fix it. The government tends to ignore the problem. We live in a system who creates the problem and then acts oblivious when it comes to solving it. There was something that really hit home for me and that was class oppression, there are a lot of people who would love to succeed and make a ton of money however the system is built to keep you stuck. I have experienced this first-hand. When a system is against you it is extremely hard to keep moving forward. The patriarchy is obsessed with controlling women and people who are less fortune. The system is full of vague responses as to why or how things happen, no one who is in power has ever taken responsibility or accountability. A person of color’s experience in the patriarchy is different from the white women and men. I must mention how Allan G. Johnson mentions how in patriarchy the men are considered most valuable because they build, they are strong, they fight the good fight, and are good leaders. Which he explains that powerful forces taught us to believe that men are more capable. When it comes down to, we are not a patriarchy.  

Now when I read There is No Hierarchy of Oppressions by: Audre Lorde,  

She expresses how she is black and a Black woman at that, society has made her into this strong woman because she has no other choice. Society makes it extremely hard for her to even express her thoughts on when there is a problem she is known as being defiant, difficult, inferior, or plain wrong. She explains that people who want the freedom to live in their truths all come from mostly the same problems. However, there are a bunch of people who are in a state of acceptance of how this is the way things are specifically within the Black communities. People tend to ignore oppression and the unjust systems until it affects them.