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1StrongBlackMan

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15. I think that just the U.S. history of race relations ...
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 01:32 PM
Feb 2014

which cuts across gender, makes it (as someone above coined it) the "golden standard of oppression" that everyone/most recognize. Though, personally, I believe gender, or rather, patriarchy, is a bigger, more insidious, issue ... because it, too, cuts across race; but is just now (in the 20th/21st century) being given voice.

The largest barrier being from Day 1, people at an intuitive level knew and accepted that racism was/is wrong, and they were/are very few folks affected by racism, that accepted it ... not so much with gender/patriarchy issues. The masses see gender/patriarchy issues as "it just is the way it is", and patriarchy "enjoys" a significant amount of ambivalence, if not support, among women.

I strongly believe that the dynamics related to gender/patriarchy issues will change/is changing, just as it did with race issues, as the discussions lead folks, male and female, to see patriarchy as another form of oppression.

But that said ... as DU will bear witness, there are a segment of liberals that DO NOT believe Black folks when we say something is offensive.

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Most of us will often do the same. The other day I thought, I hope I am not offending AA community seabeyond Feb 2014 #1
I have yet to read any post you've written sufrommich Feb 2014 #2
I don't find it to be arrogant or offensive. MadrasT Feb 2014 #3
I'm repeating myself; but ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2014 #7
I follow a fairly militant bi-sexual black man on FB. ismnotwasm Feb 2014 #4
I encourage you to wade in ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2014 #6
I think he'd be pretty open to it ismnotwasm Feb 2014 #11
I am often very grateful to see your posts, and I hope you keep doing what you are doing. Squinch Feb 2014 #5
LOL ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2014 #9
We all experience life through our own prisms, but there are overlaps that create understanding... hlthe2b Feb 2014 #8
I suspect ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2014 #10
Not offended JustAnotherGen Feb 2014 #12
Isn't that the beginning of understanding? To relate something that is happening in one's life Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #13
I like to ask mercuryblues Feb 2014 #14
I think that just the U.S. history of race relations ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2014 #15
You are so on point. redqueen Feb 2014 #16
It's like this-- along with gender ismnotwasm Feb 2014 #17
That last line = Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #18
Simply put ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2014 #19
and this is where there is a disconnect for me Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #20
Well ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2014 #21
these next two years are going to be -very -interesting in our country Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #22
I've noticed this ismnotwasm Feb 2014 #23
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