Black people can recognize white people’s humanity. Black women can recognize white women’s womanhood and rights as such. Unlike white people, black people can very well empathize with white people and know what it’s like to be them. They have no choice, and they still muster up the strength to recognize their humanity when something bad happens to “good” white people. Black women, as women, recognize white women who are raped, abused, beaten, and mistreated by white men especially. We even empathize with white women who are in abusive relationships with black men.

To think black women are some coldhearted “wenches” who refuse to listen to white women’s plights is erroneous. We have to understand white women’s plights as women so we can survive as women ourselves! Black women are not foolish enough to not join white women when talking about basic rights for women. White women have always been viewed as “leaders” of the women’s rights movement, unfortunately. And woc were forced to trust them even though they had every reason not to. But guess what? Black women decided to create their own movement called “Womanism” after exclusion from both white feminists and black male Civil Rights leaders. Neither black men or white women wanted black women to recognize both of their humanity; womanhood and blackness, so they started their own movement on their own.

I have never seen a black woman allow a white woman to endure in misogyny. In fact, black women have historically been pack-mules to white women without gratitude. The ol’ wise “Mammy” who advises Scarlett O'Hara on how to be a “lady.” Minny teaching Miss Foote to cook fried chicken and basic skills like that. But like any other white person, white women erase the history of their dastardly deeds and maltreatment of black women, and project that onto black women. They even helped alter the history of how white women treated black men and boys (with the help of black men of course) and said black women’s existence is oppressing black men. And yet black women in spite of it all can still recognize white women’s womanhood and join them in Anti-Rape events and messages in order to protect their own black womanhood in the process. Black women do not need white women in the least, but when it comes to the mainstream recognition of their own womanhood, they unfortunately do NEED it. While some black women may reject mainstream feminism altogether, let’s not pretend why other black women and woc hold onto the feminist label.