From here:
On this day in 1980 the Archbishop of San Salvador following several years of tension where he denounced the right wing death squads within the context of defending the rights of workers in El Salvador, while celebrating mass he was shot through the heart. The irony was lost on few.
A friend just sent a link to A Vote of Allegiance? In the Obama-Clinton Battle, Race & Gender Pose Two Great Divides for Black Women. Being the Washington Post, it looks at race and gender and ignores class. But it’s well worth reading—it reminds me that I always liked Lani Guinier, who was abandoned by the Clintons, which was part of my growing distaste for them:
Lani Guinier, a professor at Harvard’s Law School, says white women and black women have had different relationships to power. White women, she says, have had a greater access to it.: “They were sleeping with power. Even though they were disadvantaged in terms of access to conventional opportunities to their mates, they were also in an intimate relationship with power.”
Guinier, who is black, was once nominated as assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Clinton administration, but her name was withdrawn after controversy erupted over her writings on affirmative action. “For black women, power was not represented by their mate or by their father or by their uncle, which is not to say — I am by no means excusing sexism within the black community or the fact there is violence against women,” Guinier says. “It extends beyond any particular identity. I am trying to make this larger point that quote-unquote the man had a different footprint in the black community than in the white community.”
If you divide feminists by race, “white” ones tend to be richer than those “of color”, so of course their concerns are different. If feminists would align on the basis of class, we could transform the world.
