identity political powerlessness has its privileges
By shag carpet bomb • Nov 15th, 2008 • Category: Election 2008, Feminist Fight Club, Film Theory, Identity Politics, Playing the Race Card, Queer, Racialization, Theory, WMF, Whiteness, Women of Color Feminism“My community has a problem with homophobia, but we aren’t the only ones. African Americans are but 12 percent of the population. We have neither the numbers nor the power, given our history in this country, to disenfranchise another group. Blaming us for what is an American ill–as prevalent in, say, white Tripoli, Iowa, as [...]
