THE ROOTS OF MISOGYNOIR CONDITIONING IN THE MOVEMENT

THE ROOTS OF MISOGYNOIR CONDITIONING IN THE MOVEMENT

I need to dig much deeper into my misogynoir conditioning and its history.

We’ve already tried putting misogynoir conditioning as a back burner while we focused specifically on racism and look where it’s got us?

We’re at the same place today as we were 60 years ago! In some ways even worse! Back then, great men like Baldwin himself (one of the most insightful of the leaders)

who knew Toni Morrison, Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelou and later Alice Walker personally,

was STILL hesitant to focus in on the revealed horrors of the mistreatment of Black women by Black men for fear that it would diffuse the movement’s energy and focus.

The ONLY ones who did tackle these evils head-on were the Panthers, who had prominent Black women leaders like Angela Davis and the like,

where they openly acknowledged and accepted them in the forefront,

and Malcolm X, where he and his wife gave up EVERYTHING for the truth, exposed Elijah Muhammad not only sleeping with his teen secretaries and impregnating them,

but revealing the hypocrisy of casting them away from the fellowship for THEIR fornication!

It’s time to educate, convict and enlighten one another like never before.

We are what we accept and it’s long past time we stopped accepting the unacceptable. Long past.