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  1. Sep 2020
    1. We believe that sexual politics under patriarchy is as pervasive in Black women’s lives as are the politics of class and race. We also often find it difficult to separate race from class from sex oppression because in our lives they are most often experienced simultaneously. We know that there is such a thing as racial-sexual oppression which is neither solely racial nor solely sexual, e.g., the history of rape of Black women by white men as a weapon of political repression.

      This paragraph is a great example of the importance of intersectionality. When the authors write that their is such thing as racial-sexual oppression that is not just racial or sexual, it's both, and therefore different. Though the term intersectionality did not exist yet, the idea of it is touched on here.

    2. Although we are feminists and Lesbians, we feel solidarity with progressive Black men and do not advocate the fractionalization that white women who are separatists demand

      This is also a great example of intersectionality - the women here are black feminists and lesbians, which makes them differently discriminated against than straight black feminists or white lesbian feminists.

    3. This may seem so obvious as to sound simplistic, but it is apparent that no other ostensibly progressive movement has ever consIdered our specific oppression as a priority or worked seriously for the ending of that oppression.

      This seems almost like a clapback to me! Their goals and beliefs are quite simple, because nobody has paid any attention at all in the past so they are starting at square one.

    4. A Black feminist presence has evolved most obviously in connection with the second wave of the American women’s movement beginning in the late 1960s.

      The three wave model is the most common way to describe the evolution of feminism, but in the past, none of my classes or the documents that I have read have mentioned the emergence of a Black feminist presence at this time - more white-washing, unsurprisingly.

    5. The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression, and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking.

      I feel like this is a great summary of everything that feminism should be. Feminism in the current era goes beyond just wanting equal rights for women, and now also looks at dismantling systems of oppression like cissexism, racism, ableism, classism, etc.

    1. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

      Similar to the Declaration of Independence, here the women who wrote this document are airing their grievances. They've got a laundry list of things that men have taken away from them or not allowed them to do and they want everyone to hear about it.

    2. The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.

      RBG spent her whole career holding men accountable for the "repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman." She fought for women to keep the rights they had and for them to have equal rights going forward.