Black Thoughts

                Blog Checkpoint   A s I said in the first blog , I  have begun to recognize how much of my understanding of Black feminism was shaped not by  being a  sile nt observer . Growing up as a young Black person  that lived in Africa and only came to   America  a decade ago ,  I believed I  understood struggle. I knew  what  racism  was ;  the middle schooler who always asked if  i  used to hunt for animals, my coworkers asking if I came here because I was a bastard et c . But when conversations turned to  Black feminism, I felt defensive  and  often confused. My ignorance  came from  a quiet assumption that feminism, even Black feminism, was secondary to “real” racial issues.  It  wasn’t  until much  later did I realize that this thinking was precisely what Black feminists have  b...

  Engaging in this class has taught me a lot more about feminism than  I’ll  like to admit. At first, my thought process was just to get this class for an easy A but the more I read, the more I was  kind of horrified ? Like  don’t   get me wrong,  I’m  glad to be learning about intersectionality but  it’s  still horrific  to know black women go through this.  It’s  even extra embarrassing since  I’m  a black guy who has  a lot of  black women in his  life,  yet I still  don’t  know much.  There has been one major thing  I’m  glad this class taught me though. It was about Anger. I used to hear (or see) black women that were so bitter and  angry at the world for no reason. They would say and act vile towards others and were even self-destructive to themselves. Before I used to dismiss them as crazy people but after watching  Jennifer’s Ted Talk, I really starte...