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Black women leaders respond to narrative surrounding black women V P nominees
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:19 pm
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:19 pm
Ya know, I wonder what Sarah Palin would think of this? Think she would laugh. You betcha!
OPEN LETTER BY BLACK WOMEN LEADERS IN RESPONSE TO THE NARRATIVE SURROUNDING BLACK WOMEN NOMINEES FOR VICE PRESIDENT
Black women are many things. We are business executives, political strategists and elected officials, philanthropists, and activists. We are health and wellness practitioners. We are entertainers and faith leaders. We are wives, mothers, daughters, educators, and students. We set and shift culture. We build power and we are powerful.
We are the highest propensity voters in this nation. We are a coalition of Black women leaders, who, in this inflection point of the Black liberation movement, where people around the world are galvanized to action, know that the time for Black women in the United States is now.
Over the past few months in the media, we have witnessed many Black women put forth as potential Vice Presidential candidates including former Gubernatorial Candidate Stacey Abrams, Congresswoman Karen Bass, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Senator Kamala Harris, Congresswoman Val Demings, and former US Ambassador Susan Rice, be publicly critiqued. We have also watched many of these highly-credentialed women be disrespected in the media over the last few weeks.
Regardless of your political affiliation, whether it's the media, members of the vice presidential vetting committee, a former Governor, a top political donor, or a small town mayor: We are not your Aunt Jemimas. The use of the racist myth of a happy, Black servant portrayed as a happy domestic worker loyal to her White employer is not lost on us. While some of the relentless attacks on Black women and our leadership abilities have been more suggestive than others, make no mistake--we are qualified and ambitious without remorse.
We are servant leaders -- motivated by a desire to uplift and advance our communities and nation. And we will not tolerate racist or sexist tropes consistently utilized in an effort to undermine our power. No matter who you are supporting for Vice President, you should be equally outraged by the blatant disrespect of Black women.
Black women have been and remain vital across sectors. We are indebted to women like Ella Baker, Septima Clarke, Shirley Chisholm, Angela Davis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Barbara Jordan, Ruby Doris Robinson, and Ida B. Wells just to name a few. These women have fought to move us forward and are collectively responsible for much of this country's progress. Black women have been leading, and we must honor, protect, support, and uplift them.
OPEN LETTER BY BLACK WOMEN LEADERS IN RESPONSE TO THE NARRATIVE SURROUNDING BLACK WOMEN NOMINEES FOR VICE PRESIDENT
Black women are many things. We are business executives, political strategists and elected officials, philanthropists, and activists. We are health and wellness practitioners. We are entertainers and faith leaders. We are wives, mothers, daughters, educators, and students. We set and shift culture. We build power and we are powerful.
We are the highest propensity voters in this nation. We are a coalition of Black women leaders, who, in this inflection point of the Black liberation movement, where people around the world are galvanized to action, know that the time for Black women in the United States is now.
Over the past few months in the media, we have witnessed many Black women put forth as potential Vice Presidential candidates including former Gubernatorial Candidate Stacey Abrams, Congresswoman Karen Bass, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Senator Kamala Harris, Congresswoman Val Demings, and former US Ambassador Susan Rice, be publicly critiqued. We have also watched many of these highly-credentialed women be disrespected in the media over the last few weeks.
Regardless of your political affiliation, whether it's the media, members of the vice presidential vetting committee, a former Governor, a top political donor, or a small town mayor: We are not your Aunt Jemimas. The use of the racist myth of a happy, Black servant portrayed as a happy domestic worker loyal to her White employer is not lost on us. While some of the relentless attacks on Black women and our leadership abilities have been more suggestive than others, make no mistake--we are qualified and ambitious without remorse.
We are servant leaders -- motivated by a desire to uplift and advance our communities and nation. And we will not tolerate racist or sexist tropes consistently utilized in an effort to undermine our power. No matter who you are supporting for Vice President, you should be equally outraged by the blatant disrespect of Black women.
Black women have been and remain vital across sectors. We are indebted to women like Ella Baker, Septima Clarke, Shirley Chisholm, Angela Davis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Barbara Jordan, Ruby Doris Robinson, and Ida B. Wells just to name a few. These women have fought to move us forward and are collectively responsible for much of this country's progress. Black women have been leading, and we must honor, protect, support, and uplift them.
This post was edited on 8/5/20 at 5:25 pm
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:22 pm to tigersbb
Sounds like they’re ready to play the race card again in this election. Surprise surprise
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:23 pm to tigersbb
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the blatant disrespect of Black women
You mean like the disrespect of singling them out by race for nomination? That disrespect?
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:23 pm to EvrybodysAllAmerican
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Sounds like they’re ready to play the race card again in this election. Surprise surprise
Too big to fail.
Immune from critique.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:24 pm to tigersbb
Oprah is pushing white privilege really hard
Now that she made all her cash off White house wives, she using her ghetto voice and calling out Whitey.
Now that she made all her cash off White house wives, she using her ghetto voice and calling out Whitey.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:24 pm to tigersbb
It's amazing the progress they've made in the last 2 months.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:28 pm to tigersbb
And after all that babble, they still will need more resources from everyone else. Always funny to watch the "collective" reasoning come out as they single out a few who accomplished something and take credit it as their own self worth.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:29 pm to tigersbb
quote:Of all the names in that list, she's the only one I wish was still around. A true patriotic American.
Barbara Jordan
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From 1994 until her death, Jordan chaired the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform. The commission recommended that total immigration be cut by one-third to approximately 550,000 per year. The commission supported increasing enforcement against undocumented migrants and their employers, eliminating visa preferences for siblings and adult children of U.S. citizens, and ending unskilled immigration except for refugees and nuclear families. The commission's report to Congress said that it was "a right and responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest", concluded that "legal immigration has strengthened and can continue to strengthen this country" and "decrie[d] hostility and discrimination against immigrants as antithetical to the traditions and interests of the country." The commission recommended that the United States reduce the number of refugees admitted annually to a floor of 50,000 (this level would be lifted during emergencies).
This post was edited on 8/5/20 at 5:33 pm
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:32 pm to tigersbb
That's a lot of angry "blackness" right there.
At least they capitalized "White" along with "Black".
At least they capitalized "White" along with "Black".
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loyal to her White employer
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:32 pm to tigersbb
I guess they aint oppressed anymore.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:35 pm to tigersbb
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We set and shift culture. We build power and we are powerful.
This is basically "We Wuz Kweens". As they like to say, same energy.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:36 pm to tigersbb
quote:Oh, they're more than that. Much, much more.
Black women are many things. We are business executives, political strategists and elected officials, philanthropists, and activists. We are health and wellness practitioners. We are entertainers and faith leaders. We are wives, mothers, daughters, educators, and students.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:39 pm to DesScorp
What a crock of shite
Then start by getting black men to respect you and maybe I’ll take you seriously.
Then start by getting black men to respect you and maybe I’ll take you seriously.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:40 pm to tigersbb
"black" was capitalized too often for me to finish the piece
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:41 pm to tigersbb
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Black women are many things. We are business executives, political strategists and elected officials, philanthropists, and activists. We are health and wellness practitioners. We are entertainers and faith leaders. We are wives, mothers, daughters, educators, and students. We set and shift culture. We build power and we are powerful.
Are you powerful or oppressed? I’m confused now
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:42 pm to DesScorp
Black women for the most part are not even liked by black males. Get back to me when this changes.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 5:46 pm to tigersbb
Have you ever heard 3 or 4 black women walking together. Sounds like there is 30 of them as much noise as they make.
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