Cut that out!

I am a feminist.

Notice that I didn't say I'm a Black feminist. That was intentional. Cos in the game in my mind being a woman who believes in equality for my sex in this world it seems ridiculous to me to divide our efforts over race. People argue that the struggle isn't the same because the racial experiences differ in our country. Please. No 2 women's experiences are the same in any life. That's what makes us individuals.

To my mind our combined individual experiences: Black, White, tall, short, crazed and sane should combine together for analysis. We should be looking at each other and saying 'That happened to me too!' and putting our efforts towards how we can things better for all. These debates on color, culture and passion only take away from strengthening our cause. Who wins then? A blessed few! Who should be winning? Our sex as a whole!

Whenever I hear these bouts of infighting and division I find myself wanting to stand up and yell "Get your heads in the game!" We still make less on the dollar than men. We still can't afford venture out in our world without the assumption we're going to be safe from sexual assaults. We still can't get affordable healthcare to our sisters across the country let alone across the friggin waters! We don't have to stop and weigh our struggles and sort them by color, class or economics to identify them as struggles. We need to focus on lessening the burdens PERIOD.

But that's just this loud mouth feminist's opinion.