One of my favorite feminist books is Bell Hooks' 'Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism,' which greatly details the unique struggles of Black feminists during our country's most racist and sexist times. They faced both ugly racism and sexism during their fight for racial and gender equality for African-American women. Unfortunately, some times they were not welcomed by either the male leaders of the Black Civil Rights Movements or even White feminist leaders. So they formed their own activist groups dedicated to fighting both racism and sexism. Like all movements they faced hostility, but in their case from 'both sides'--Black men and White feminists. Some of the traditionalist male leaders of the Black Civil Rights Movement demanded that they submit themselves to sexist gender roles prescribed for women, and accept an inferior standing within the African-American Community. Some of the White feminist leaders of the Women's Liberation Movement trivialized the sexism Black women faced not only from Whites but from Black men as well, and even told them that racism was the only form of oppression Black women suffered. So Black feminists (and Black women in general) had a "two-fer" when it came to backlashes and discrimination. In this particular case, via Prometheus 6, we see a classic sexist hyperbole made by reactionary Black men against Black feminism and Black women's liberation from patriarchy--the very sort of misogynist defamation of Black feminist women Hooks' highlighted in her book.

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EXPOSING THE DAMAGE THAT 1970's WOMEN'S LIBERATION HAS DONE TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY...

EXPOSING HOW BLACK FEMINISTS HAVE FAILED TO LEAD THE BLACK RACE ANYPLACE...

EXPOSING THE FAILURE OF BLACK LEADERSHIP...
(LIKE BILL COSBY!)

REMINDING BLACK MEN THAT IT'S TIME TO JOIN THE GROWING MEN'S MOVEMENT...

WE ARE THE ONLY BLACK ORGANIZATION THAT EXPOSES AND OPPOSES LESBIAN FEMINISM WITCHCRAFT!!

Deeply ignorant.

Of course, there are reactionary slanders made by racist Whites against Black feminists as they also stride for racial equality. I'm sure it would reference some big evil "Black Panther 'kill Whitey' lesbian feminist witchcraft" conspiracy. Misogyny and patriarchy know no color. Thankfully the sexist sentiments of this particular group of African-American men does not reflect the 'gender issue' sentiments of all African-American men, and not all of the male leaders of the Black Civil Rights Movement were sexist (and not all White feminists were racist). There are sexists and racists found within just about every community. This is just an example of sexism perpetrated by the male members of a community against its female members. And I wonder since I'm only half-African-American and feminist, does this mean that I'm only bisexual and half-pagan to them?