It has really started to alarm me lately how white women and women of colour who both identify themselves as feminists spend such a lot of energy at going at each other. One would think that feminism is all about how well women can bash each other as opposed to women trying to free ourselves from male domination.
While it is true that white women and women of colour may have different needs the fact remains that we are all women and we are all oppressed by men.
All women are under the boot of the male. This is not to suggest that racism does not exist. It does and it is very real. But here we must understand that at the top of the hierarchy is the white male, below are men of colour and below them are women.
White women need to understand that they do not have any power over any men. If this was the case then why are so many white women victims of rape by men of colour. White women have no power. It is possible many may think that because they are white this gives them some power. If white women believe this then they need to have a reality check. The power they think they have is not theirs and is only conceded to them by the white male. White men want women to stay divided so by making white women think they have some power, white men are able to use white women to propagate racism and division.
When the white males arrived in the USA they convinced the white women that the Indians where savages that would rape and murder them if the white male did not protect them by committing genocide. Sadly many white women have believed these lies.
Women need to stop seeing each other as the enemy and start seeing each other as as fellow sisters who are being oppressed, abused and raped by men.
Women, irrespective of race must start respecting each other for the unique human beings we are and put their differences aside. We need to understand that as long as we are going at each other we will never be united. If we are not united how are we to stand up to male supremacy.
Women of all colours will always be oppressed, abused and raped until we can totally destroy male supremacy. We also need to understand that men have no interest in giving up their privileged position which means they will never be our allies. This makes it even more important that we are able to stand as one against this evil male dominated world.
