ESSAY CONTEST

Between a Hawk and a Buzzard

Incite Change Contest #2: Racism in Feminism

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Martin Luther King Letter from Birmingham, Alabama jail, April 16, 1963.

But man is in a tight place, the poor slave is on him, woman is coming on him, and he is surely between a hawk and a buzzard. — Sojourner Truth

1. What can a Karen say about racism in feminism? Nothing-
   but that never stopped me before.
2. “Man, where is your part?” asks Sojourner Truth.
   “Women’s rights are human rights,” said Hillary whom they want to go away.
3. “Women’s rights are human rights,” said abolitionist and proto-feminist Sarah Moore Grimké in the late 1830s.
4. Helen Keller, best known for learning to spell “w.a.t.e.r.,” was a radical agent of social change, a human rights activist who put her privilege to work by co-founding the NAACP and the ACLU. I didn’t know that.
5. Does gender or race come first? It’s kind of like being stuck…