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[NOTE: One week break due to a strenuous workload IRL. I will still be moderating comments so feel free to discuss things. After the break I will reorganize some of this content and update it. Meantime please check out the links, esp. on the UPDATE page; many great bloggers have discussions about this stuff going on right now).
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I’m not a blogger. I have no wish to start a blog. The sole purpose of this page is to issue a plea to the white feminist community. I, too, am a feminist who has white privilege. I believe in our cause. I believe in the struggle for equality of all people regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, etc. This struggle means recognizing and fighting discrimination wherever it exists.
This is especially true when it is within our own ranks. So let’s stop burying our heads in denial. Let’s recognize the hypocrisy of claiming to fight oppression while simultaneously acting as oppressors ourselves. Listen to the words of your sisters who do not have your white privilege. Do not get angry and blame them for your faults. Instead, listen.
Because it’s okay to make mistakes. It’s okay to be wrong sometimes — everyone is. But it’s not okay to deny those mistakes, to refuse to change or learn from them, to insist we are perfect the way we are. In doing so, we keep the same old systems of hierarchy and oppression in place.
And isn’t that just what we criticize patriarchy for doing?
That’s a pity.
I agree with Daran, ’cause damn, we need more of this.
I agree with the 2 previous comments.
I agree completely with the first comment, but only about 1/2 with the 2nd and about 2/7th with the third. And I don’t agree with this comment at all.
I only venture into the political/issue-oriented blogosphere every couple of months. Because I am crazy busy with other things. But I am white and consider myself a feminist and an ally to woc. I am wondering if it would be possible to have a blog written by white women allies to do some of the heavy lifting that woc have to do. In terms of teaching our own. Thing is, I don’t read regularly enough to find the shit that needs calling out. But if there was a communal blog where woc who found the shit [or had it thrown at them] could say, “here it is, what are YOU going to do about it? then a core group of white feminist blogger allies could have at it. And we could do the work of calling it out and answering it and arguing with it…” ‘Cause I’m not in this world regularly, but I care, and I would like to tote a bit of the load. [And I know that it's priviledge that I even have the choice...] Does this make any sense to anyone?
ico, i want to drop some thoughts about your “blog rating” idea to you, without highjacking ABW’s blog. can you leave your email addy somewhere? or is there somewhere else i can put them?
ahyicodae at bsu dot edu.