Aishah Shahidah Simmons Challenges White Feminists
June 11, 2008 by AfricanAmericanGather
Were Black Women Ignored In The 2008 Presidential Primary?
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, award winning documentary filmmaker of NO! The Rape Documentary took a bold step last week.
After the fallout of the Clinton campaign and the conclusive victory of Barack Obama, many of us relished if only for a brief moment in the victory and historic moment.
For the first time in our country’s history, a man of African descent (once removed we might add) became the Democratic candidate for the Presidential election.
While this is certainly a major coup and a monumental occasion, the hows and there-to-fores of what took place during the primaries is still to be settled.
White feminist supporting Hilary Clinton chose sides vehemently ignoring Black women completely. That tall linky man Barack disrespected Miss Ann, and dey wasn’t havin’ it. Completely forgetting about African American women 1st wave, 2nd wave, and 3rd wave, their language reeked of amnesia and racism as they proudly held their white feminist flag.
Barack was the only thing standing in the way of Hilary Clinton becoming the nominee. Only because he was a man (and not the most qualified candidate receiving the majority popular and delegate vote) was she not getting the votes she deserved and was counting on we might add.
Well Simmons’ had had enough. She wrote an embracing, yet authoritative open letter to the White feminists supporting Clinton. To read the letter in it’s entirety, check out Simmons’ blog.
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