8 May
2013
8 May
'13
11:35 a.m.
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Eddan Katz <eddan(a)clear.net> wrote:
In the article you link to below, the objections
described are from black
women who thought that the song gave particular lower status to black women.
No kidding. If by "gave lower status to" you mean "erase entirely".
It is an unfortunate interpretation of the song and a
depressing admission
of how deeply engrained the word nigger is in our culture.
You think you know better than any black woman on that subject?
But it is my understanding of the intent of the
songwriters to expose the
degrading aspects of sexism that were being dismissed in response to the
mainstreaming of feminism at the time.
"I was trying to fight sexism" is not at all incompatible with
something being racist.