._jahan: Conservative bans on books and abortions pose a unique threat to Black women’s sense of self. Alice Walker’s work is like a road map to help them find it. No wonder Republicans are desperate to keep her out of classrooms. (via The ReidOut Blog)
In the mind of Alice Walker, women are not gifts to be prized or beheld.
Reading her work, I’m acquainted with a person who knew the objectification underlying the paltry praise women often receive from men. Especially when this praise — compliments about beauty, daintiness, or what have you — comes in lieu of true respect.There are passages in this essay that read like direct rebuttals to conservatives who say nothing is lost — and that in fact, much is gained — through the erasure of Black history and the suppression of Black stories.
Did you have a genius of a great-great-grandmother who died under some ignorant and depraved white overseer’s lash? Or was she required to bake biscuits for a lazy backwater tramp, when she cried out in her soul to paint watercolors of sunsets, or the rain falling on the green and peaceful pasturelands? Or was her body broken and forced to bear children — eight, ten, fifteen, twenty children — when her one joy was the thought of modeling heroic figures of rebellion, in stone or clay?But this is...
Together, conservative bans on books and abortions pose a unique threat to Black women’s sense of self. Alice Walker’s work is like a road map to help them find it.Read previous “Black History, Uncensored” posts on
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