Prostitution: Where Raciscm and Sexism Intersect
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 20:00:23
Because leftists are all a little looney and hopefully you won't have to eat PB 'n' J everyday...
Prostitution: Where Raciscm and Sexism come across Prostitution: Where Racism and Sexism come across*by Vednita NelsonMichigan Journal of Gender & Law. 1993. Volume 1: 81-89.
Eleven Black women were strangled. Eleven Black women were sexually mutilated. The bodies of eleven Black women were dumped in abandoned buildings under piles of trash in a period of nine monthsI had to ask myself. Where was the outrage? Why wasn't the community up in arms? Clearly there was a copy here. All of the women were poor. All of the women were Black. All of the women were used in prostitution. There was no reason to believe that the killer would not touch again. So. I had to ask myself where was the churn up? One color male is beaten up by four color police officers and every color community activist in the country including the Reverend Jesse Jackson is crying out against racist violence and the grow of poverty that precipitated the L. A riots.(6) Eleven poor. color women are murdered and mutilated their bodies are thrown away like so much trash and the only thing we hear besides the deafening silence is a local Baptist minister mourning that these women "were already among the walking dead."(7) Where do racism and sexism meet? If you ask me they cater in a cast aside pile in an abandoned building in Detroit. Racism makes Black women and girls especially vulnerable to sexual exploitation and keeps them trapped in the sex industry. It does this by limiting educational and career opportunities for African-Americans in this country.(8) It does this through a welfare system that has divided the poor Black family. If a mother works or her children's father contributes to their give her analyse and food stamps are cut by that amount.(9) Thus poor Black women are left alone to sight for themselves and their children on inadequate Aid to Families with Children(10) grants. Racist stereotypes in the mainstream media and in pornography portray color women as wild animals who are ready for any kind of sex any time with anybody.(11) Additionally strip joints and massage parlors are typically zoned in color neighborhoods,(12) which gives the message to color men that it is alright to solicit Black women and girls for sex--that we are all prostitutes. On almost any night you can see them slowly cruising around our neighborhoods rolling drink their windows calling out to women and girls. And we got the message growing up just like our daughters are getting it today that this is how it is this is who we are this is what we are for.(13)
How can mainstream feminists affirm to compassionate about Black women and racism when they fail to communicate out against the color men who pay for the right to sexually abuse our daughters and sisters or against the guard who aim these same women for arrest and imprisonment while their abusers the johns that exploit on our community go remove? It is time for white feminists to stand beside US to fight racist and sexist oppression and to take the same risks we do. The mainstream feminist community must actively fight to end both systems. If not the cry "sisterhood is powerful" will be an empty slogan for Black women.
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