Where Were White Feminists Speaking Out For Quvenzhané Wallis?
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'Where Were White Feminists Speaking Out For Quvenzhané Wallis?'
http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2013/02/quvenzhane-wallis-white-feminism/
"If there were ever any doubts that white feminists are disengaged from and apathetic to the concurrent racism that Black feminists must navigate in an increasingly hipster and kyriarchal society, look no further than their deafening silence when satirical website, The Onion, called 9-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis a “cunt” on Twitter.
...Because for many white feminists — not all — the realization that they do not stand to benefit from acknowledging the intersection of race and feminism renders them mute. The conversation surrounding the lack of inclusiveness and diversity within the feminist movement is one that never progresses because many white feminists feign ignorance of their privilege. They are comfortable allowing their Black counterparts to march in their Slutwalks while protesters carry “Woman Is The Nigger Of The World’ posters because racism is not their battle. It’s ours.
They encourage us to shrug off our Blackness for the greater feminist good; the end result being a contemporary plantation tableau defined by Ole Miss and Mammie slaying the patriarchal dragon while the issues of racism and classism are hidden behind the veil of “progress.” And while this scenario is about as feel-good as The Help, expanding white privilege — feminist or otherwise — is not equality."
...Though I’m sure I will be called divisive for examining the very large cat that has apparently grabbed the tongues of self-proclaimed feminist organizations and torch-bearers who would have essentially stormed the Bastille if any young, white girl had “playfully” been called a “cunt” in front of millions of people, I’m perfectly fine with that. In fact, I embrace it. Feminism is the flawed solution to a very complex equation, and to get to the root of any complex equation, one must divide. Unfortunately, it’s becoming increasingly evident that some people don’t want us to divide because then we’ll realize something isn’t quite adding up.
Lord have mercy... I need a bottle of water and a cigarette after reading this. So much truth. So much PAINFUL truth.
And if any of you want to read or sign the Love Letter to Quvenzhané Wallis, click here http://www.crunkfeministcollective.com/2013/02/24/a-love-letter-to-quvenzhane-wallis/
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Its human nature 
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If anyone is questioning the content of he OP I would like you to google these words: Stereotype Sapphire.
Then try and say Number23 is being silly.
That was a child. A little girl. And to a black woman in America - calling a little girl a c ya next Tuesday is tantamount to calling her a little whore. They turned her into a "sellable thing" - not a human being deserving all the coddling and adoration of a cute young Drew Barrymore.
And Number23 - my husband says to me last night . . . "You are so damn angry! Good for you!
". I'm so focused on those four assclown outright racist fucks and their lackey down in DC that I can't see straight.
I did exactly what you said. I Googled it. Came up with not just Stereotype Sapphire, but FIVE different stereotypes!
Sapphire
Mammy
Jezebel
Matriarch
Welfare Queen
http://academic.udayton.edu/race/05intersection/gender/AAWomen01a.htm
OMG! Who knew that I had FIVE WHOLE stereotypes that I could fit myself into! FIVE!!! 
ETA: I guess they didn't want to add the "tragic mulatto" to the mix.
And you're right about the Drew Barrymore reference and the author of the piece makes a similar judgement. Lord, help us all if The Onion had printed something like that about a little white 9-year old, especially a little blonde one. The offices of The Onion would be burning as we speak.
I'm so focused on those four assclown outright racist fucks and their lackey down in DC that I can't see straight.
Who are the four assclowns?? Is it the folks at The Onion or our favorite Supreme Court justices that have your ire??
I saw something shiny and got distracted!
You got it - my 'favorite' scrotums on the SCOTUS. And due to the nature of this thread - and the pushback received upthread - I stand by referring to them as male genitalia! 
When The Onion called nine-year-old Oscar phenom Quvenzhané Willis a gendered, sexualized slur, like thousands of others I watched it unfold live on Twitter. In the days following the uproar, apology, and media attention there developed a sense among many of the black feminists I engage with that white feminists either ignored or did not fully engage the incident. In fact, a well-circulated and well-written article at The Clutch argued exactly that. As a sociologist, I thought that the question of whether or not white feminists did not show up for Quvenzhané could be an empirical question. What I did not realize is that as a black woman, I was not allowed to ask that question. I learned from white feminist scholars, and a few non-white ones as well, that there are questions beyond the scope of empirical analysis. Black women like me should just professionally nevermind.
I asked a general question about the feelings expressed by some black women. Then, as I am trained to do, I made decisions about how I would measure and observe available data to provide one specific version of an answer to my question. That is what we call guided inquiry where I study. It was casual but ethical. I was detailed about each decision I made in the process of selecting white mainstream media organizations to examine. I took a look at their blog and online responses to The Onion tweet and then drew some pretty tame conclusions.
In effect, I made the mind-blowing suggestion that race could be salient to the experience of an event with a black girl at its center. I did not even conclude that white feminists ignored Quvenzhané. I made the more nuanced conclusion that some white feminist media covered or responded to the event but few interrogated race and intersectionality. I never use the word “racist” and I certainly did not post an honor roll of all the bad white feminists.
Within 24 hours of posting the commentary to my small blog, I was charged with deliberately publishing research designed to deny a “white male feminist” that wrote “arguably the most influential” article on the Quvenzhané attack his just due. Next, colleagues began forwarding responses from women’s studies scholars. The comments ranged from an argument that I am trying to brutally constrain what constitutes a feminist argument to I conflated feminists organizations with individual feminists to intentionally profit from a cottage industry of racist race-baiting as I plot to destroy feminism from the inside-out. I received long, personal emails from white feminists telling me the high price they have paid professionally and personally for being an ally. They said I spit on their sacrifice by asking how white feminist media responded to Quvenzhané.
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I read Tressie McMillan Cottom's first article analyzing the lack of response from mainstream feminist media, and she made an excellent case. http://tressiemc.com/2013/02/28/did-white-feminists-ignore-attacks-on-quvenzhane-wallis-thats-an-empirical-question/ The attack on Quevenzhane' Wallis wasn't covered by the "leading lights" that you'd typically think of as the go-to white feminist commentators on current events and controversies.
It's disappointing that silence reigned. It's more disappointing that Black women who pointed it out are getting outright threats.
If all that fury could be channeled against assholes who call little Black girls the c-word, that would be something.
(I had one strange experience on FB with this, posting a link to a petition to insist that the Onion apologize. Three hours later, one person I don't talk to much (white male) posted a link to the Onion apology and said shortly "They already apologized." Well, had they three hours before? Or why is it just the bare fact that they said "sorry" means "drop it?"
We still need to talk about why someone thought that was ok in the first place, and then why everyone was in a big hurry to 'move past it'.
Maybe I'm just old, but I am generally unamused, if not downright disgusted with most
of what passes for "comedy" today, especially when they think racist and/or sexist put downs are "funny" .
I watched South park once and hated it. Being an old hippie who lived in the San Francisco
counterculture during the late 60's and early 70's, I really don't think I'm a "prude".
I like witty, cerebral humor best, but am open to most types except that kind of "shock jock" shit
which seems to think putting people down for who they ARE, rather than, for instance, what they DO
is funny. I just don't get it. I'm also generally also left cold by "gross out" flicks.
They seem to be made for adolescent boys who have yet to acquire all their brains.
