Leftists at their best, really can't make that shit up, reads like right out of an alt-right message board:
[...] Then she read a post on the Facebook page for the march that made her feel unwelcome because she is white.
The post, written by a black activist from Brooklyn [...], advised “white allies” to listen more and talk less. It also chided those who, it said, were only now waking up to racism because of the election. “
You don’t just get to join because now you’re scared, too,” read the post. “
I was born scared.” Stung by the tone, Ms. Willis canceled her trip. “This is a women’s march,” she said. “We’re supposed to be allies in equal pay, marriage, adoption.
Why is it now about, ‘White women don’t understand black women’?” [...]
But long before the first buses roll to Washington and sister demonstrations take place in other cities, contentious
conversations about race have erupted nearly every day among marchers. [...] In Louisiana, the first state coordinator gave up her volunteer role in part because there were no minority women in leadership positions at that time. “I got a lot of flak locally when I stepped down, from white women who said that I’m alienating a lot of white women,” [...] In response, a New Jersey woman wrote: “I’m starting to feel not very welcome in this endeavor.” [...]
“If your short-term goal is to get as many people as possible at the march, maybe you don’t want to alienate people,” said Anne Valk, the author of “Radical Sisters,” [...] “
But if your longer-term goal is to use the march as a catalyst for progressive social and political change, then that has to include thinking about race and class privilege.” [...]
“Yes, equal pay is an issue,” Ms. Sarsour said. “
But look at the ratio of what white women get paid versus black women and Latina women.” For too long
the women’s rights movement focused on issues that were important to well-off white women [...]
“I needed them to understand that
they don’t just get to join the march and not check their privilege constantly,” she said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/...n-opens-contentious-dialogues-about-race.html
