Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master’s concerns. Now we hear that it is the task of women of Color to educate white women—in the face of tremendous resistance—as to our existence, our differences, our relative roles in our joint survival. This is a diversion of energies and a tragic repetition of racist patriarchal thought.
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The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House, by Audre Lorde (1979)
mmmhhmmmm. for the “but how will we knooowwww not to be racist, entitled douchefucks if you dont hold our hands and teach us” crew. fuck off.
(via soydulcedeleche)
