Gender Wage Inequality Is White Feminist BS

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23. My Shero, Donna Edwards always gives all of the women's data.

She talks about white women, then black women, then Latina women and shows how the gap widens by race.

There has never been any surprise to me that white women make more than black men. I think this is what the OP is pointing out, and I see some women here reaching higher, instead of trying to pull everyone up. What we should be trying to do is to pull everyone, women, blacks, Latinos/as, up to the Asian male standard. So then we must talk about gender and race, because both are problems. To focus on one but not the other, in my mind, as a black woman, is inappropriate, and possibly blind to the problems of others.

So, no name calling about white feminist BS. That wins no allies, although it's attention-getting. Does it get the conversation started, not in a positive way. Look at how it has pit white women against women of color. I don't think that was the intent of the article. As a black woman, I want the wages of my black brothers to rise. We are partners, in many cases. If not husbands, then lovers, brothers, fathers, cousins, so on. I think that makes me different from white women IF they only think of this as a women's issue. If they see this as a white male dominance issue, it puts them on my page.

So, please, consider seeing this as a white male dominance issue, and realize that the standard has to be raised for white women, and ALL POCs, men and women. Leave no one behind.