Alexandra Diodonet Reading Response 9

When reading “Combahee River collective” it was known to be black feminism, especially among lesbian who is black. In 1974 black feminists have join together to involve the process of defining and clarifying their policies. They begin to explain the history of the historical reality of Afro-American women’s continuous life and death survival and their negative relationship to the American political system. The Collective argued that both the white feminist movement and the Civil Rights Movement were not addressing their particular needs as Black women and, more specifically, as Black lesbians. When reading this article they were powerful and motivated to have the right to say their needs and their desire as a black woman or black lesbians. This decade there wasn’t focusing on the feminist movement until the 1980s. There have been problems that went on in the black feminist organization, an example according to the article was, “We have tried to think about the reasons for our difficulties, particularly since the white women’s movement continues to be strong and to grow in many directions.” She explains that no matter how strong the black feminism organization is, the white women’s movement is getting stronger than the black feminism organization. No matter what movement white women are fighting for, in the black feminism’s point of view it seems like they are at the bottom when they’re trying to gain the political’s attention just to have the same equal rights just like everyone else. I believe that black feminism needs to be introduced more and for people to be education about the black feminism.

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