Black Feminism

Black women and their commitment to freedom and equality has often been minimized in history books. However, with black women standing at the front of each decade, the intersectionality of gender, sexual orientation, and class has become a point of grave importance. Working through the Civil Rights era and beyond, black women were instrumental in increasing awareness on a diverse pool of relevant issues.
In the 1970s, black women forced the nation to understand the duality of being a woman and black. Angela Davis, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison pushed a narrative that required people to understand gender thought the context of race.
In this series of Black History In Two Minutes or So hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., with additional commentary from Brittney Cooper of Rutgers University, we’ll dive deeper into how black feminism paved the way for modern movements and the black experience as we know it.
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[@imaqueen2943]

love this topic tough I ain't a black women. I really appreciate black women.

[@whiteydiamond]

You're illiterate and call yourself a queen, they don't need you lmao

[@froggysongz4780]

anyone else bored asf and came just to get educated for no reason

[@trillstar7399]

U mean miss educated 🌝

[@j.s27]

Lmfao 😂

[@mothergoose80]

Bell hooks should've been referenced...

[@j-short5431]

Why? She didn’t reference any of her WS sources

[@ancarter87]

Short but good video😊

[@tarawibowo]

Women define the future generation, while men define the present generation. If you want the future generation to be good then educated your daughters correctly. So infer this to present advances and problem, today advances and or problem is created by present men which is educated by their earlier generation of women.

[@trillstar7399]

They know this . This is 100% the reason they are targeting black women with Bs feminist ideas.. Its all a trick to destroy the social unity of black men and women... Feminism is a covert branch of White supremacy power structure.. White Genetic Annihilation has been talked about since the 50's. They are ALL COSTS had to break up and slow down the black family... Feminism and welfare are the main to weapons of white supremacists against black unity and family structure... Oh and hip-hop 🙄🤦‍♂️

[@Nothing_And-Nowhere]

In my opinion, the most important teaching to give would be never to be an extremist (religious, political, ecc.)

[@juratory8876]

Judging by the comments, I can tell some people are uncomfortable with Black women having a sense of independence thanks to feminism. Just admit you all want to own women like objects and go.

[@jameswtlocs]

Look what has happened to the black families in America due to your so called "independence". It's grown further than that now it's just pure ignorance

[@TravelWitMi]

@@jameswtlocs black women been had independence before feminism. Black women were raising children, working, driving, handling money, etc… This isn’t new, the only thing that has changed is black women mind when it comes to relationships and loving their skin more. 20 years ago black women stayed in toxic relationships because they believed and were told that they weren’t desired. Nowadays, black women are becoming comfortable with being by themselves. Black women have evolved in a positive way especially their mindset.

[@jameswtlocs]

@@TravelWitMi yeah black people were just fine before we got to the west. Queens ruled nations could be in high ranks etc. There's nothing wrong with the independence whatsoever I believe it's more so the egos and lack of simple respect

[@Solider7]

Independent, my ass. If they were, then why do they always complain about black men never providing? Why do they need government assistance so much?

[@thomasnaphtali79]

@Juratory independent from who?

[@Jwa-fo6nb]

The way these black men are responding should let every black women know to divest from them and live a happy life

[@dustinmaxwell259]

Keep "Divesting". Fyi, black women have been "divesting" for hundreds of years. 1/5 kids born to black women are the resullts of that "divesting". I have yet to see black men calling for the extermination ofblack women the way I've seen it the other way around. In fact, most of the man-woman hatred within the black community seems to be in the form of black wome hating the men. But prove me wrong. Link me thse videos/articles. I'll gladly give you Cynthia G and others.

[@ksager123]

That's what y'all wanted to do anyway

[@jacobzaranyika9334]

Hear hear....

[@goldwolf3976]

Where is the middle finger emoji when you need it best

[@chynnasjrnl]

❤️🧡💛

[@i.p.freely5974]

Yep. Our community is doomed.

[@zee608]

Yep because the men never cared about the women and didn’t put up a fight against feminism and was already checking out in droves to date in other communities

[@dustinmaxwell259]

I've been saying it for YEARS. The white supremacists have done one hell of a job at weaponizing black women against the men.

[@NIXONTRAYZ]

Thank God for blacks feminism now they are the last married most strong and independent. Congratulations

[@treywilliams6120]

@Baddie Kayladoll Jesus christ you are fucking stupid.

[@joshuatruvillion3044]

@Baddie Kayladoll oh stfu feminists! No one wants to be with black women stats don't lie take ownership

[@jermaineelliott2685]

Their lesbians

[@natoriobarbie8193]

You lot act like marriage to men benefits women in any way other than financial. And even then, women can provide for themselves. All black women don’t want to be married. Let alone to black men or men at all. Everyday y’all (presuming you’re a black male) have the audacity to think you’re a prize women must win and cherish when really you are most of our hamartia.

[@NIXONTRAYZ]

@@natoriobarbie8193 ya better off just being single

[@ENDofREGULATION30]

This is when black women lost their way with their black counterparts... we (black men) never oppressed our women! We never had power to do so! This was never their fight

[@trillstar7399]

It don't matter the very simple fact that 90% of black women have wigs of white women's hair on they head everyday in public is something you don't want to really confront... Self hatred and white worship.. Image if even 50% of black men had the Tom Cruise haircut 🤷‍♂️... The average black women is a sellout and they have no clue that they have a brain run on white supremacy! They really truly believe white ppl are "better". They would follow white ppl to hell if they could.. feminism is another truck/distraction.. We really just let white women be considered "oppressed"🙄🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@zee608]

Oh hush up with that analogy y’all was leaving the homes long before feminism even came into the community FOH🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾

[@nzingalou7556]

So black women don’t experience gender based violence? Lol. And by nature of having vaginas, we experience sexism. Not only from Black men, but especially from the white patriarchy. But by all means, continue to speak over Black women about their own lived experiences.

[@ENDofREGULATION30]

@@nzingalou7556 Ah.... I love how you decided to attack my talking points by building a strawman. Are you going to say black men had societal "power over you? Would you be lynched for sleeping with a white man? (We would be for just looking at a white woman). You (black women) have always been the preferred hire between black men/women, even before the Civil rights era. Black women are trying to pretend that they have been oppressed, when in actuality, black women have enjoyed the American dream since they started having babies for slave owners

[@nzingalou7556]

​@@ENDofREGULATION30 One of the core principles of Black Feminism is intersectionality. Black women experience both racism and sexism at the same time. Thank you for proving my point by making light of the sexual violence that Black women historically experienced at the hands of white men. Not only did you support the Black feminist theory of intersectionality by bringing up the point of gender based violence, but you also supported the point of Black men also being misogynistic by reffering to it as "the American dream". The jokes write themselves. Thanks for that!

[@junkyarddog7003]

A hot mess 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@Ugofitness711]

This is bs I wish that the oppressor would stop pushing this to the community.

[@yah-kikaelizmuth9460]

The movement came from a selfish intention and destroyed the community in the process

[@graciemae4824]

No, the community was destroyed by self-hating, derelict men abandoning their families and/or creating muliple fatherless homes, having preference for non-black women, doing & selling drugs in the community rather than work an honest & productive job or building Black businesses, making Black neighborhoods dangerous with crime & violent gang culture, getting arrested and going to prison more than any other group of men, senselessly killing Black men, women, and children, and making degenerate & misogynistic music glorifying the worst behaviors that conditions destructive ideas into the minds of the youth so the cycle of destruction continues. And then refusing to take responsibility and fix themselves & their male culture while blaming Black women instead.

[@zee608]

Nope it expose how the men really felt about black women, y’all were dating out and leaving long before feminism was a thing.

[@l3loodforpride426]

​@@zee608smh we are the weirdest community in America

[@cartercarter2837]

I'm under the assumption drug dealing destroyed the community not feminism

[@l3loodforpride426]

@@cartercarter2837 both and blacks continue to eat it all up everything that's bad and stupid we make good and wonder why we are at the bottom smdh

[@KabadRamGadalGabaryam]

They can be independent and take care of theirselves not get married or take care of the children on their on because they are independent and “don’t need a man”