Q I like you! And I dig your concept of leaving white people out of the mix and helping your own people. That's cool...it goes with the "think globally/act locally" concept because in helping your people to be strong you are in turn helping the entire world. I really do like that. Thanks for opening my mind.
Here's a question. What if I, as a white woman from a European culture (and believe me, I was born in England), DOESN'T want to help empower whites because they are so dominant. I live in DC and me and my kids and friends have a good laugh at the fact that in the middle of our nations capital stands a big white falice! Can you believe that I truley and honestly feel this way without assuming anything else based on the fact that I'm white?
I have NEVER told my children that other kids of color were "just as good as them". I have NEVER had a thought of taking a public stance or doing activism for the sake of "helping" people of color. On the contrary.....I have told my children that they are the same as every other person in the world...no worse, no better, and they have to show respect to each and every other human being in order to expect respect....plain and simple. I don't think I ever mentioned race or ethnicity in that scenario. And when I do activist work or speak out against injustice....my motivation is the help the world.
So I get myself back to the topic we bagan with......white's acting black. SO WHAT???? Get over it!!!! I know black republicans with volvos and vans and stock options and all the trimmings but it doesn't bother me in the least! This world is there for the taking for anyone and everyone....I say go for it. I got bigger fish to fry!
And as for feminism....you are completely off target...but that's another discussion. You act like Europeans invented subjucation and that's ridiculous. What about the legalized female circumcisions routinely being done, even today, in parts of the Eastern world? What about the killing of female infants in China? PAAAAALEEEEASSEE!!!! I am not African American so I have conceded I can be schooled by you....I am a woman so try to hear me.