Horowitz/Reparations for slavery

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Thu Mar 8 12:47:50 PST 2001



>he already explained that he's engaged in anti-racist organizing and
>only rarely delurks to point out what is deeply problematic about
>what we whities say here every fucking time we open our mouths to
>talk about racism, how to fight it, etc. spending a few moments
>here and there to point out that our job is to figure out how
>whiteness works and to end racist and racializing practices on OUR
>part is a part time job as far as i could see.
>
>i'd like to know if you'd feel the same if a feminist woman stepped
>in to tell the so-called feminist men here that 1]. they'd gotten
>some of the feminist theory and practice they're complaining about
>wrong and 2]. that maybe instead of telling feminist women how to
>overcome sexist bigotry and sexist oppression they might spend more
>time confronting the sexism of their institutions within which they
>work, live, love, play every day.
>
>something's wrong with thinking, as men, that you can tell feminist
>women how to run the show and, similarly, there's something wrong
>with white men and women doing the same to black men and women.
>
>kelley

So, how does an Asian Marxist & feminist woman fit into the above picture? What happens in a debate between an Asian woman and a white woman, an Asian woman and a black man, etc. on questions such as racism & sexism?

Yoshie



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