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“To Black women, the issue is not whether white women are more or less racist than white men, but that they are racist. If women committed to feminist revolution, be they Black or white, are to achieve any understanding of the charged connections between white women and Black women, we must first be willing to examine woman鈥檚 relationship to society, to race, and to American culture - as it is, and not as we would ideally have it be. That means confronting the reality of white female racism. Sexist discrimination has prevented white women from assuming the dominant role in the perpetuation of white racial imperialism, but it has not prevented white women from absorbing, supporting, and advocating racist ideology or acting individually as racist oppressors in various spheres of American life. Every women鈥檚 movement in America, from its earliest origin to the present day, has been built on a racist foundation, a fact which in no way invalidates feminism as a political ideology. The racial apartheid social structure that characterized 19th and early 20th century American life was mirrored in the women鈥檚 rights movement. The first white women鈥檚 rights advocates were never seeking social equality for all women. They were seeking social equality for white women.”
― bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

“Consequently, it can be easily argued that even though white men institutionalized slavery, white women were its most immediate beneficiaries. Slavery in no way altered the hierarchical social status of the white male but it created a new status for the white female. The only way that her new status could be maintained was through the constant assertion of her superiority over the black woman and man. All too often colonial white women, particularly those who were slave mistresses, chose to differentiate their status from the slave鈥檚 by treating the slave in a brutal and cruel manner. It was in her relationship to the black female slave that the white woman could best assert her power.”
― bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

“Teaching women how to defend themselves against male rapists is not the same as working to change society so that men will not rape.”
― bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

“Sexist discrimination has prevented white women from assuming the dominant role in the perpetuation of white racial imperialism, but it has not prevented white women from absorbing, supporting, and advocating racist ideology or acting individually as racist oppressors in various spheres of American life.”
― bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism