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Family...thank you for loving me and for knowing the truth about who I am. My work speaks for itself...my words have been clear...my love for people is deep. Whatever else they say about me is a LIE. Thank you for continuing to hold me up. I stand on my reputation!
The black community is very complex. We have been & continue to suffer thru incomparable circumstances. This means other ppl may not understand how we organize and all that it takes to deal with our pain. I am dedicated to bringing ppl together. However, I will not be bullied!
The Jewish community is also very complex. Jews gave also suffered incomparable circumstances. You've heard of the Holocaust? Your failure to denounce Farrakhan, anti semitism, and homophobia is telling. The Women's March movement should not be fractured like this.
I'm not a Zionist. And half Jewish. I am calling out a leader's failure to denounce anti semitism and homophobia. As an old, white feminist, those stances are anathema to me.
I think you are avoiding my original statement, which was simply a request for a leader of the women's march to denounce anti semitism and homophobia, both of which are very problematic views. IMO, Louis Farrakhan's views are extremely problematic. As a Women's Marcher last year
So let me get this straight: you wouldn’t take issue with an activist whose cause is important to you if she showed up at a David Duke rally numerous times, took photos with him, and sang his praises, and refused to condemn the hate that comes out of his mouth?
Farrakhan has a long history of bonding with white supremacists over their shared enemy actually so she probably wouldn't
It’s worse than that.https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/969698963094999040?s=21 …
Nonsense. The Black community is not *that* complex. Many of us cancelled Farrakhan decades ago bc of his antisemitism, homophobia etc. What you do personally is your business. What you do as head of Women's March is all of our business. Time for you to step up or step down.
And, actually, I think we're past the stepping up part. You've been given plenty of opportunity to do so over the past few days and have failed each time. For the good of the whole Women's March concept, it's time for you to step down
This is like someone shouting "All Lives Matter" to Black people after attending a David Duke rally. Seriously, this is worse than a simple non-apology, because it's insulting to treat people like children who can't tell when someone is changing the subject and being evasive.
This isn’t the first time she’s done this. Those of us who took issue with her touting Bernie as the keynote speaker at the convention just got gaslighted. Even when we’d tweet her own words re: keynote speaker to her, she said the journalist misquoted her, but wouldn’t ask...
...for a retraction or correction from said journalist. She’s running an important organization, and claims that it’s intersectional and not espousing a specific political belief, but lies when she’s doing just that.
Asking you to outright denounce Farrakhan, which you still haven’t done, is not bullying.
Or, God, at least denounce the *views* we're talking about. LF is complex; he's done great good for a uniquely situated community. But we all have difficult family members, and it's on all of us to say that while we might love Uncle Louis, we don't share THAT VIEW he's spouting.
No. None of us need to say we love Uncle Louis.
Please stop making this about you being under attack. The attacks in question are the people spoken about with vile bigotry by a man you appear to support. You are not the victim of this. You are a leader with a national profile. This scrutiny comes with the territory.
Blk women stay under attack. And guess what, you are attacking her.
Nobody is attacking her. She chose to be a public figure, and she chose to publicly support a man who is identified as a purveyor of hate speech by human rights groups such as the SPLC. She chose to wish him a happy birthday on social media.
Dr. Dorothy Height attended the Million Man March. That did not make her an anti Semite.
Yes, WE understand. Aligning yourself with Farrakhan is CLEAR. Jews & the black community share a similar history of suffering. In THIS country we stand TOGETHER in support of one another. That man does not represent who we are, & neither do YOU.pic.twitter.com/CfzEKCSP33
And, we ALL have “those” people in our lives who have disgusting prejudices. Part of our duty as women&as HUMAN BEINGS is to thwart those vile diseased words & actions with our louder voices& actions of love &strength in our diverse beauty.This is a fail 4 u.
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