It must be frustrating for the Black people to see their language taken out of context and destroyed not only by the society's media, but also by young white radicals, and now by women. Phrases like ' Aunt Tom', 'Jane Crow Law', and 'shuffling' have no place in our movement. These terms have specific meaning for Black people, male and female. Language which is historically and socially at odds with the subject of analysis not only cheapens one's analysis, but is an inslut to the absolutely necessary struggle of the Black people in this country, a struggle necessarily related to our own. In a sense we are all fighting a Fascist state and are defending ourselves from genocide, at the same time that we attempt to change the course of history.
All oppression is bad.
Starvation is worse. There are as many females as males starving in the world today. Yet clearly, under the present system, starvation could be alleviated, and the oppression of women could continue. Divide and rule is a method that has always worked perfectly for these insidious vipers, and is still working through American heirs. What surprises me is that the same thing seems to already be happening among women in our newborn movement.