A young Black man announced to me yesterday, “Any MAN who sucks another MAN’S dick, is a FAGOT!” What I inferred from his tone, is that a FAGGOT is someone who is less than a man. But what does this say about a WOMAN who chooses to “suck a man’s dick.” Is it okay for her, because women are already seen as less than? This type of rhetoric implies that anyone who is receptive sexually or who is penetrated (including orally) is less than, and because women are biologically inclined to be receptive, is inherently less than. A male has a choice, to be a penetrating partner or a receptive partner, however by making the decision to be receptive, whether it’s anally or orally, he has relegated him self to the position of a woman, which in this society has always been a position that is less than a man.
Dean Steed, (Creator of DaughterofZami)
Posts tagged feminism.
— Kevin Powell
-Abbey Lincoln, (Essay, “Who Will Revere The Black Woman?”)
Lesbian is the word, the label, the condition that holds women in line. When a woman hears this word tossed her way, she knows she is stepping out of line. She knows that she has crossed the terrible boundary of her sex role. She recoils, she protests, she reshapes her actions to gain approval….
Olive Morris speaking at a rally against police brutality outside Brixton Library (ca. 1972)
Olive Morris was an active member of the Brixton Black Panther Movement until the group dissolved and reformed into a number of organisations working on specific aspects within the Black struggle….
More: http://rememberolivemorris.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/brixton-black-panthers-movement/
(via marycarmichaelk)
“There was one girl in our school whose mother made her wear a clothespin on her nose to make it thin. There were quite a few girls who tried to bleach their skin white with bleaching cream and who got pimples instead. And, of course, we went to the beauty parlor and got our hair straightened. I couldn’t wait to go to the beauty parlor and get my hair all fried up. I wanted Shirley Temple curls just like Shirley Temple. I hated the smell of fried hair and having my ears burned, but we were taught that women had to make great sacrifices to be beautiful. And everybody knew you had to be crazy to walk the streets with nappy hair sticking out. And of course long hair was better than short hair. We all knew that.
We had been completely brainwashed and we didn’t even know it. We accepted white value systems and white standards of beauty and, at times, we accepted the white man’s view of ourselves. We had never been exposed to any other point of view or any other standard of beauty. From when I was a tot, I can remember black people saying, “Niggas aint shit.” “You know how lazy niggas are.” “Give a nigga an inch and he’ll take a mile.” Everybody knew what “niggas” like to do after they eat: sleep. Everybody knew that “niggas” couldn’t be on time; that’s why there was c.p.t. (colored people’s time). “Niggas don’t take care of nothing.” “Niggas don’t stick together.” The list could go on.
To varying degrees we accepted these statements as true. And, to varying degrees, we each made them true within ourselves because we believed them.”
— Assata Shakur
— Assata Shakur
— bell hooks
“What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.”
- bell hooks
