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Steinem’s op-ed can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n From Angry Black Bitch<\/a>:<\/p>\n After reading Steinem\u2019s Op-Ed I felt invisible\u2026as if black and woman can\u2019t exist in the same body. I felt undocumented\u2026as if the history of blacks and the history of women have nothing to do with the history of black women.<\/p>\n When I read \u201cBlack men were given the vote a half-century before women of any race were allowed to mark a ballot, and generally have ascended to positions of power, from the military to the boardroom, before any women (with the possible exception of obedient family members in the latter).\u201d<\/span> I felt both attacked and ignored at the same time.<\/p>\n I think of the women and men in my family who were not extended the protected vote until 1965. I wince at the lack of acknowledgment for the black women of Birmingham, Selma and Montgomery who had to march with their brothers in the 1960s to attain the vote because the suffrage movement abandoned them in a Southern strategy to get the vote in 1920.<\/p>\n And there it is again\u2026that invisibility; like a brutal weight that I am so bloody tired of carrying.<\/p>\n When I consider Steinem’s \u201cSo why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?\u201d<\/span> I\u2019m left confused.<\/p>\n What country does Gloria live in where race barriers are taken seriously? I\u2019d love to know\u2026shit, maybe I\u2019ll move there. But I\u2019m a black woman and this is America where none<\/span> of my barriers are given more than a token consideration and I\u2019ll present this Op-Ed as exhibit A in that argument.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n From A Woman’s Ecdysis<\/a>:<\/p>\n Look, I’m not going to go head to head with Steinem and argue what is most pressing for womyn in America – race or gender. What I do know is that as a US womyn of color living in this country is that the two are so inexplicably interlaced that I resist ANY individual that pitts once against the other, especially a White mainstream feminist. What I find most often, too, is women like Steinem (White liberal women) call gender over race. Let’s rally all the women together once more because we’re all being denied the right to vote and the men of color are making it into the boardroom before any of us are.<\/p>\n There’s a reason why I use the word gender\/ace as one entity. I cannot separate the two.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n More folks posting on this subject: Reappropriate<\/a>, The Debate Link<\/a>, Diary of an Anxious Black Woman<\/a>, Pandagon<\/a>, Feminist Law Professors<\/a>, Jack and Jill Politics<\/a>, Tiny Cat Pants<\/a>, and Silence Isn’t Golden<\/a>. And Side Notes and Detours<\/a>. (If you’ve posted about this, or know of a post about this you think is good, feel free to leave the link in the comments.)<\/p>\n UPDATE<\/strong>: This isn’t the first time Steinem has discussed race during a presidential election — one of her “top ten” reasons<\/a> for opposing Ralph Nader was Nader asking an American Indian, Wyona LaDuke, to be his running mate. Steinem bizarrely saw this choice as an anti-Indian move on Nader’s part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Steinem’s op-ed can be read here. From Angry Black Bitch: After reading Steinem\u2019s Op-Ed I felt invisible\u2026as if black and woman can\u2019t exist in the same body. I felt undocumented\u2026as if the history of blacks and the history of women … Continue reading