Similar to BAR’s editorial staff, I consider the entirety of Frances Beal’s “Double Jeopardy” to be… Practically mandatory reading for anyone who considers themselves serious about, or wanting to get serious about working alongside subjects-of-empire and their formations. This is what came before ‘intersectionality’, and how Twitter libs absolutely butchered that concept into the limping carcass it is today.

(Also: I find it funny that even in 1969, Beal was already penning the paragraphs to categorically nail the ADOS coffin shut regarding “the emasculation of Black men” and how often Nasheed and his orbiters first throw that flag at the feet of Black women before anyone else.)

It is true that our husbands, fathers, brothers and sons have been emasculated, lynched and brutalized. They have suffered from the cruellest assault on mankind that the world has ever known. However, it is a gross distortion of fact to state that black women have oppressed black men. The capitalist system found it expedient to enslave and oppress them and proceeded to do so without signing any agreements with black women.

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Those who are exerting their “manhood” by telling black women to step back into a domestic, submissive role are assuming a counter-revolutionary position. Black women likewise have been abused by the system and we must begin talking about the elimination of all kinds of oppression. If we are talking about building a strong nation, capable of throwing off the yoke of capitalist oppression, then we are talking about the total involvement of every man, woman, and child, each with a highly developed political consciousness. We need our whole army out there dealing with the enemy and not half an army.