![]() ![]() “Young men need access to conversations about what it means to be a man in ways that are not rooted in power, dominance, and violence. “White privilege works by making the advantages white people have invisible while making the supposedly “poor” choices of people of color hypervisible.” “White women have absolutely been accomplices to the American project of white supremacy, but their husbands, brothers, fathers, and sons have always been the masterminds, let us never forget that.” But the hustling spirit that I saw in Hillary Clinton resonated with the oft-repeated Black proverb: You have to work twice as hard to get half as far.” Brittney Cooper ‘One of the biggest battles that second-wave feminists of the seventies had with third wave feminists of the nineties was over the plac. “Black women are cast as cold and unfeeling for having these qualities. That doesn’t mean I’ve never wanted a man to do it for me.” To think about it systemically and collectively, but never to diminish the import of the trauma. “I have learned to defend myself because I’ve never been able to rely on a man to do it for me. “I do wish white feminists would embrace the notion, however, that in this new feminist movement we are all trying to build, they aren’t automatically our choice for “strong female lead”.” We have to spend our time teaching young men how not to be violent men and partners.” “It’s not enough to teach women how not to attract violent men. “And white women frequently don’t recognize that though women are oppressed around the world, whiteness elevates the value of their femininity and allows them to get away with shit that women of color pay royally for.” Brittney Cooper is a professor of Womens and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University, she cofounded the Crunk Collective, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Ebony, and The Root, among many others. And all human beings deserve at least a few slips. When I talk about owning eloquent rage as your superpower, it comes with the clear caveat that not everyone is worth your time or your rage. “But it doesn’t acknowledge that when you are twice as good, white folks will resent you for being better. So here are the rest that didn’t make it into the review, but which I still wanted to share with you all. White women have absolutely been accomplices to the American project of white supremacy, but their husbands, brothers, fathers, and sons have always been the masterminds, let us never forget that. I had to be incredibly selective with the quotes I pulled for my review of Eloquent Rage because there were tons. I’m trying something a little new today with this ‘quotes post’. 176 quotes from Brittney Cooper: 'What you build is infinitely more important than what you tear down.', 'But part of what I’ve been trying to say is that rage can help us build things, too. ![]() Happy Saturday! And welcome back to DegenerateReads. ![]()
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