Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, American Chicana Feminist and Activist
This is the woman who is credited with coining the term "Opression Olympics"
–cosigned by Angela Y. Davis
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This is the woman who is credited with coining the term "Opression Olympics"
–cosigned by Angela Y. Davis
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Born in 1925, she grew up in a white neighborhood, went to white schools, worked at white jobs, and married white men (pic 2, 2nd husband)
Keep this in mind, this person grew up and lived her entire life clearly on the white side of the color line, during the era of Jim Crow
Keep this in mind, this person grew up and lived her entire life clearly on the white side of the color line, during the era of Jim Crow
Pic 1 is the wiki summary on the first usage of the term, and pics 2-4 are excerpts from that 1993 conversation
Angela Davis: "A "Black" subject was created. We can also create a "women of color" subject." 🚩
Link to the full conversation:culturalstudies.ucsc.edu/inscriptions/v…
Angela Davis: "A "Black" subject was created. We can also create a "women of color" subject." 🚩
Link to the full conversation:culturalstudies.ucsc.edu/inscriptions/v…
Fast forward to 1998 and Elizabeth Martinez is releasing her book "De Colores Means All Of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century"
–Foreword by Angela Y. Davis
De Colores which translates to "of colors" 🤔
–Foreword by Angela Y. Davis
De Colores which translates to "of colors" 🤔
By this point even Davis is using the term "Opression Olympics" along with other Feminists and saying utterly stupid things like:
"Native Americans, Africans, Mexicans, and Chinese–of whose blood and sweat this country was founded" 🙄
"Native Americans, Africans, Mexicans, and Chinese–of whose blood and sweat this country was founded" 🙄
Martinez wants us to move beyond a "Black-white model" but states:
"Above all, it is not a devious way of minimizing the centrality of the African-American experience in any analysis of racism"
This seems very suspicious for someone who grew up in D.C as white
"Above all, it is not a devious way of minimizing the centrality of the African-American experience in any analysis of racism"
This seems very suspicious for someone who grew up in D.C as white
By 2017, "Opression Olympics" is mainstream and Martinez is celebrated and releases a new edition of the book
And this is how these discourses are created
Academics create these terrible concepts that eventually gets filtered down to general public
And this is how these discourses are created
Academics create these terrible concepts that eventually gets filtered down to general public
So whenever someone accuses Black Americans of playing "Opression Olympics", they are simply regurgitating the babble of a middle-class whi..umm..I mean Chicanx Feminist
#Feminism
#Feminism
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