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#FreePalestine #RussiaOutOfUkraine #CombaheeTaughtMe Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005 🌹
Mar 25, 2021 4 tweets 7 min read
1/4 I am 1 of 3 Black women who coined the term #IdentityPolitics in the #CombaheeRiverCollective Statement, 1977. @MeghanMcCain does not know what she's talking about. What we meant was that Black women have the right to determine our own political agendas, period, full stop. 2/4 People of all political stripes have distorted #IdentityPolitics ever since. And why does Meghan assume that people of color and women who are not white are by definition less qualified? This is classic #WhiteSupremacy. @TheView @sunny @whoopi @LastWeekTonight @iamjohnoliver
Jan 6, 2018 6 tweets 2 min read
Once again Brooks gets identity politics totally wrong!
The Retreat to Tribalism nyti.ms/2DL1Ddi Here is my correction. (Follow thread.) Another clueless diatribe about "identity politics" by someone who has no idea what it means. As one of the 3 co-authors of "The Combahee River Collective Statement" (1977) where the term originally appeared,