Posted on Saturday, 21 January 2012

Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying.

Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” (via arewomenhuman)

Exactly.

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