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And evette Dionne endorsing alot of this. As I said already earlier that no one addrsssed I have gone on her twitter feed and she has linked articles from teen vogue websites. The article states exactly what I have pointed out here on this thread. Almost point for point but better and more coherent and eloquent. The two articles has to be read together to give understanding and anyone who does not understand it then has no idea of black female feminism or the history of if it or why white women where mentioned or why they are at constant logger head. I would post some of it but people will have to read it themselves. To me they are basic knowledge and I agree with everything Dionne and Jackson have written. They are not new to any black feminist who wants to understand their past and history instead of having one sided history.
The two are linked and should be read to together for beginners.
Bits of the first article
Women Have Always Been a Part of White Supremacy
Current events may be relatively silent on the role of women in white supremacy, but history is quite loud.
When you look back at the images from the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend, you might get the impression that women were largely absent. But that doesn’t mean they haven’t always been present in white supremacist ideas and actions in very important, albeit less memorable, ways.
Like many violent racial events in this country’s past, history will record Charlottesville as a mixture of toxic masculinity and anti-black and anti-Semitic rage. This is the sort of rage that paints white supremacy, and all of its trappings, as the domain of (white) men. But that couldn’t be further from the truth.
For the most part, women are not mentioned in history unless they are martyrs, heroines, princesses, or feminists. When they are upholding a system as violent and exploitative as white supremacy, they are pretty much ignored altogether. But they show up on occasion, and technology has helped with that.
But women and white supremacy were bosom buddies long before we had the technology to capture them on film. Which continues on to give examples....
What is critical here is that white women were working in the plantation household to normalize white supremacy. Thus, even when the peculiar institution of slavery was eradicated, the culture and logic underlying it prevailed.
One of the most prominent groups to participate in the preservation and purification of the failed white supremacist regime was the United Daughters of the Confederacy, founded in 1894. The Daughters worked alongside organizations like the Klan to grow white supremacist frameworks in the South. They were integral in erecting statues and monuments to commemorate the Confederate generals and soldiers who were their own family members. While they claim these efforts were about history, they instead sanitized our memory of those states that had seceded from the Union, and downplayed the Confederate states’ enduring commitments to those ideologies even after the war ended.
During that time, the perception that black Americans would dispossess white Southerners was met with swift racial violence in the form of lynchings.
The earliest and arguably most thorough account of white women’s role in the lynchings of black American men came from anti-lynching activist and journalist Ida B. Wells in A Red Recordd^.
www.teenvogue.com/story/women-white-supremacy-history-america/amp
Second article
OG History is a Teen Vogue series where we unearth history not told through a white, cisheteropatriarchal lens. In this piece, black feminist writer, editor, and critic Evette Dionne explains how many famous white people working for women's suffrage were actually racist, too.
www.teenvogue.com/story/womens-suffrage-leaders-left-out-black-women/amp
By not addressing this issue, some white suffragists were able to present voting rights as an extension of white supremacy. Anthony and Stanton championed equality for black Americans, even signing an 1864 congressional petition that pushed for the passage of the 13th Amendment. But the ratification of the 15th Amendment, on February 3, 1870, turned the tide because it secured voting rights for men of all races — but didn’t extend that right to women. “I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman,” Anthony famously spewed. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National Women Suffrage Association, argued that, “You have put the ballot in the hands of your black men, thus making them political superiors of white women. Never before in the history of the world have men made former slaves the political masters of their former mistresses!” When the 15th Amendment passed, white suffragists began pushing harder for voting rights for white women, to the exclusion of black, Native American, and Asian women.
Black women publicly fought for their right to vote, and often. In her 1867 speech at the American Equal Rights Association, Sojourner Truth argued that giving black men the right to vote without affording black women the same right only promoted black men's dominance. “I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have the right to have just as much as a man,” she said. “There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.”
But many white suffragists didn’t advocate for the ending of lynching because protecting white women’s virtue was often the excuse used to justify the brutal act. In the white imagination, black men’s insatiable sexuality was a threat to white women’s purity, according to historian Lisa Lindquist-Dorr’s book White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-19600^. After the passing of the 15th Amendment, Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton, the first woman to serve in the Senate,pushed this dangerous message: “I do not want to see a negro man walk to the polls and vote on who should handle my tax money, while I myself cannot vote at all,” she said. “When there is not enough religion in the pulpit to organize a crusade against sin; nor justice in the court house to promptly punish crime; nor manhood enough in the nation to put a sheltering arm about innocence and virtue — if it needs lynching to protect woman’s dearest possession from the ravening human beasts — then I say lynch, a thousand times a week if necessary.”