Joyce Allen Speaks 2 US!
Hey Y'all, long time no see. Once again, I am the Blak Smith & I am BLESSED! I have another GREAT FB Friend in a woman named Joyce Allen who challenges me to no end. Like OUR previous FB Friend & poster, Tameika Helen Reese, we disagree onna lotta different things but always seem to conclude on the same page after WE chop it up enuff. Boy, the year is flyin & before ya know it, Blak HIStory month will be here but I don't celebrate it bcuz I celebrate US everyday! Ya boy, barry delivered the Fake of the union address & WE still got peepo spoutin off "get outta his way & let him do his job" as if THEY don't know that soetero izza hi-tech slave, SMMFH! Moscow hadda bombin & all that is is the FEAR FREQUENCY kept at a visible level. Did y'all hear about that ARK-Storm that's suppoesed to hit Cali? As the last days approach, be ever vigilant & if you a good person, continue to do so as time is on OUR side. I get into alotta BULLSHIT as I am very unorthodox but I can take it. Tunisia has calmed down & if Egypt gets HOTTER......Prophecy will be decided in the so called Mid-East & Babylon aka the USA & it's only a matta of TIME! 694 days OR less & alotta these krakka's is gone & very many of 'em know it. Remember when the Blak Male was a so called endangered species? I'm here, you here & if ya decide to not go nowhere, come meet me at the Cosmic Party my dude & dudettes. That's gonna be the party of the AGES & AGELESS! Go in now & let my SISTAR tell y'all about some things WE should be thinkin about. The days of havin 22 children will soon be upon us again! Welcome BLAK.....I missed y'all!
Subject:
Is the dual minority status more of a hindrance for black women especially in a patriarchal society than being a black male in the same society? i.e. Is being a Black woman more of a handicap in America than being a Black man?
Submitted by Joyce:
Being an African-American and being a woman were just two principle struggles thrown at the black woman during and after slavery in a patriarchal society here in the United States. These views began during the enslavement of our people and have since continued. During that time, the slave family was often structured around a strong woman figure who was expected to produce adequately in the fields and then to cook and take care of her children. In slave families the women seemed to have a bit more of the upper hand with regards to controlling the relationship. For clarity, this must be put into the conversation. The women definitely took on more of the family responsibility while the men took on the manual labor. Slave women had to fend for themselves since their husbands couldn't provide protection from our masters. So with Black Women taking on a role that was given to them, not by choice but mandatorily, to keep the Black Family together as best she could, up til today we are still looked on as Black Women who don’t need the support of Black Men.
We speak of this dual minority status today in a hindrance patriarchal society in 2011 and the struggle our ancestors dealt with on the plantation is still in existence and has now replaced the struggle we are dealing with on todays plantation, aka the corporation. Black Women are still out there doing the same things as their ancestors, working outside the home, cooking, taking care of the children, and making sure the family is still kept together. Are we viewed any different today? Today, the status of African-American women are determined by as many of the choices, challenges, and triumphs that women face, which are reflected in the hurdles that we clear, and those over which we sometimes stumble.
In an election year when women of color are being asked if they are voting their race or voting their gender—as if we could divide them—it is important to note that race and gender are intertwined for African-American women, and that both are determinants in our economic, social, political, and educational status. The intersection of race and gender, additionally create a third burden for African-American women in that part of our status is a function of the way that the majority society marginalizes and demonizes African-American men.
A most stunning example of this third burden is evident in the labor market, where both African-American men and women experience unemployment rates that are higher than those for the overall population. The unemployment/underemployment of African-American men represents a burden to the African-American women who, then, often shoulders unequal responsibility in supporting households and children without sufficient contribution from spouses, partners, or fathers. A full perceptive of the third burden explains, at least partly, why African-American women cannot separate interests of race and issues of gender in analysis of political candidates, economic realities, or social and cultural realities.
There are other important significant economic realities that shape the status of African-American women. While more likely to be employed than African-American men, African-American women earn lower wages than African-American men. A focus of women at the top should not preclude attention to the material struggles for African-American women at the bottom of the economic spectrum. One in four African-American people and more than 40 percent of African-American children live in poverty. Many of these poor are working poor—women, who earn little more than the minimum wage in service occupations. They struggle to make ends meet, often bridging the gap between living expenses and inadequate paychecks. Too often, especially when public assistance is involved, the status of African-American women is linked to the financial role that African-American men do not play in poor families. Once again this places the family survival burden on African-American women.
African-American women do not do what we want to do; we do what we have to do. That overwhelming adage of service and community, of shouldering the third burden, remains applicable. Those who ask African-American women to choose between race and gender ignore the fact that race and gender only partly explain African-American women’s reality. The third burden, the intertwining of African-American male and female lives in the context of patriarchy and economic oppression and is an important way of viewing the complexities of the African-American woman’s survival in these United States. In the context of this patriarchy, we are consumers, not producers of our images in popular culture, the target of a drive-by public policy analysis that asks us to choose between race and gender as we navigate our reality. To invoke the South African proverb, “Black women hold up half of the sky” in the African-American community. Whether operating from a strong economic base, or from the poverty status that affects more than one in four of us, we shoulder a third burden as we hold up half the sky. Race, gender, and society’s treatment of African-American men shape and define our reality and determine our status.
Are we as African American Women more handicapped in this patriarchal society than African American Men?
Subject:
Is the dual minority status more of a hindrance for black women especially in a patriarchal society than being a black male in the same society? i.e. Is being a Black woman more of a handicap in America than being a Black man?
Submitted by Joyce:
Being an African-American and being a woman were just two principle struggles thrown at the black woman during and after slavery in a patriarchal society here in the United States. These views began during the enslavement of our people and have since continued. During that time, the slave family was often structured around a strong woman figure who was expected to produce adequately in the fields and then to cook and take care of her children. In slave families the women seemed to have a bit more of the upper hand with regards to controlling the relationship. For clarity, this must be put into the conversation. The women definitely took on more of the family responsibility while the men took on the manual labor. Slave women had to fend for themselves since their husbands couldn't provide protection from our masters. So with Black Women taking on a role that was given to them, not by choice but mandatorily, to keep the Black Family together as best she could, up til today we are still looked on as Black Women who don’t need the support of Black Men.
We speak of this dual minority status today in a hindrance patriarchal society in 2011 and the struggle our ancestors dealt with on the plantation is still in existence and has now replaced the struggle we are dealing with on todays plantation, aka the corporation. Black Women are still out there doing the same things as their ancestors, working outside the home, cooking, taking care of the children, and making sure the family is still kept together. Are we viewed any different today? Today, the status of African-American women are determined by as many of the choices, challenges, and triumphs that women face, which are reflected in the hurdles that we clear, and those over which we sometimes stumble.
In an election year when women of color are being asked if they are voting their race or voting their gender—as if we could divide them—it is important to note that race and gender are intertwined for African-American women, and that both are determinants in our economic, social, political, and educational status. The intersection of race and gender, additionally create a third burden for African-American women in that part of our status is a function of the way that the majority society marginalizes and demonizes African-American men.
A most stunning example of this third burden is evident in the labor market, where both African-American men and women experience unemployment rates that are higher than those for the overall population. The unemployment/underemployment of African-American men represents a burden to the African-American women who, then, often shoulders unequal responsibility in supporting households and children without sufficient contribution from spouses, partners, or fathers. A full perceptive of the third burden explains, at least partly, why African-American women cannot separate interests of race and issues of gender in analysis of political candidates, economic realities, or social and cultural realities.
There are other important significant economic realities that shape the status of African-American women. While more likely to be employed than African-American men, African-American women earn lower wages than African-American men. A focus of women at the top should not preclude attention to the material struggles for African-American women at the bottom of the economic spectrum. One in four African-American people and more than 40 percent of African-American children live in poverty. Many of these poor are working poor—women, who earn little more than the minimum wage in service occupations. They struggle to make ends meet, often bridging the gap between living expenses and inadequate paychecks. Too often, especially when public assistance is involved, the status of African-American women is linked to the financial role that African-American men do not play in poor families. Once again this places the family survival burden on African-American women.
African-American women do not do what we want to do; we do what we have to do. That overwhelming adage of service and community, of shouldering the third burden, remains applicable. Those who ask African-American women to choose between race and gender ignore the fact that race and gender only partly explain African-American women’s reality. The third burden, the intertwining of African-American male and female lives in the context of patriarchy and economic oppression and is an important way of viewing the complexities of the African-American woman’s survival in these United States. In the context of this patriarchy, we are consumers, not producers of our images in popular culture, the target of a drive-by public policy analysis that asks us to choose between race and gender as we navigate our reality. To invoke the South African proverb, “Black women hold up half of the sky” in the African-American community. Whether operating from a strong economic base, or from the poverty status that affects more than one in four of us, we shoulder a third burden as we hold up half the sky. Race, gender, and society’s treatment of African-American men shape and define our reality and determine our status.
Are we as African American Women more handicapped in this patriarchal society than African American Men?
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