What a massive pile of misinformation, black womanhate, and stinkin’ thinkin’! Is this a bad joke? I hope so.

The leading cause of death for black women under the age of 40, in New York, used to be murder — primarily by black men. I would venture that murder is still a leading cause of death, by and for black men.

After the masterful Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Fives ‘The Message’; NWA began an entire genre dedicated to reducing black women to animals. It continues. Why not screed about that? I don’t know you (and I think we agree on that being a good thing, at least), but black women have been the backbone of the black family, have become the highest demographic for college graduation (something you deprecated a couple of times, without naming black women), and still we suffer this foolishness you wrote.

White feminism (which you mistakenly equate with ‘radical feminism’) is still predominately racist. They benefited the most from Affirmative Action, while arguably doing the least to establish it; and they continue to ignore that the overwhelming majority of women in the world are not white. That said, while Alice Walker coined the term ‘womanist’, to distinguish black and other women of color from white feminists; it didn’t really catch on. That’s okay, though. There are now a multiplicity of beliefs that support the whole personhood of women and girls. It’s necessary. Noting the racism that was rampant in white feminist circles since its inception (eugenicist Margaret Sanger, suffragist Frances Willard, and countless others throughout its history), NO one should be held back from their potential because of their gender or race— including you.

Being a man is hard. I’ve been happily married to one for over 30 years, and know his struggles. Being a woman is hard. If you stack on top of that, the difficulty in fighting racists, woman-haters, and outright psychopaths — we black people have extraordinarily difficult lives. Yet, as a ‘feminist’, as a black woman: I do not hate men. I do not hate whites. But I DO hate inequity.

Here is my hope that you can become a better you. I’ll try to do the same.