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In reply to the discussion: Patricia Arquette said "women." She didn't say "white women." [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)And we should stop making sarcastic remarks when black women complain about their men being disproportionately locked up. We struggle so fucking hard without them on far less pay than a man and less pay than white women. Families need two parents working just to make it. Care about our povert and the causes of our poverty, white feminists.
Pay discrepancy is not the only factor, far from it. Our men being in jail make us and our children poor. Many of them are in jail for trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents to bring it back to us to put food on the table. They sell drugs as a sacrifice when they get out of jail. They can't get jobs. We leave them. They have more children with more women. Then back to jail. If not for the initial poverty of these young men growing up without fathers, dropping out of school in 8th grade ( like my husband) to pay mamma's rent, and not being employable, we would not suffer such harsh fates.
When we complain we get a meal of sarcasm, and a blanket of crushed hope.