Bell Hooks dead at age 69

[KidJSoul]

From the limited amount I've read from her, she didn't seem hostile to men

If anything she tried to get them on board to explain the benefits of feminism

Not that I agree with everything she said of course but she never struck me as a man hater

 

[TEH]

Let me know where grave will be.

 

[Justin Nitsuj]

Rest in hell bytch

 

[Consigliere]

a fraction of younger black feminists/womanists etc have basically taken aspects of her work and morphed into their own mantra

some of them have expanded upon it in a sense pick up where she left off on theories of intersectionality (?)

some have used it to break down the role capitalism plays in gender politics

and some have used it as an excuse to shyt on brehs

the latter obviously a breh is gonna come more in contact with because sensationalism and animosity always is gonna grab people's attention, and understandable so.

especially with social media

TL;DR she actually was criticizing the concept of the patriarchy and how it "entraps" men to these unreasonable standards and felt that race and class needed to be addressed in the grand scheme of things.

So basically people took her stuff and ran with it? I avoid the Shea Butter Twitter types for mental health reasons

Bell hooks on black men in the Central Park 5 case




bell hooks on Central Park 5:
"No one can truly believe that the young black malesinvolved in the Central Park incident were not engagedin a suicidal ritual enactment of a dangerousmasculinity that will ultimately threaten their lives, theirwell-being. If one reads again Michael Dyson's piece "The Plight of Black Men," focusing especially on the part where he describes the reason many young black
men form gangs-"the sense of absolute belonging
and unsurpassed love"-it is easy to understand whyyoung black males are despairing and nihilistic. And itis rather naive to think that if they do not value their own lives, they will value the lives of others. Is it really so difficult for folks to see the connection between the constant pornographic glorification of male violence
against women that is represented, enacted, and
condoned daily in the culture and the CentralPark
crime?"
bell hooks,
"Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural
Politics" p. 106.

I mean… I kind of agree with her overall point here about gangs and crime even if she ended up being wrong about the details as far as who actually committed the crime.

I’ll throw this in the possibly anti-Black pile.

Is there more stuff from her like that?

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

So basically people took her stuff and ran with it? I avoid the Shea Butter Twitter types for mental health reasons



I mean… I kind of agree with her overall point here about gangs and crime even if she ended up being wrong about the details as far as who actually committed the crime.

I’ll throw this in the possibly anti-Black pile.

Is there more stuff from her like that?

Bell hooks on black men white women

“White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or be oppressed. Black men may be victimized by racism, but sexism allows them to act as exploiters and oppressors of women. White women may be victimized by sexism, but racism enables them to act as exploiters and oppressors of black people. Both groups have led liberation movements that favor their interests and support the continued oppression of other groups. Black male sexism has undermined struggles to eradicate racism just as white female racism undermines feminist struggle. As long as these two groups or any group defines liberation as gaining social equality with ruling class white men, they have a vested interest in the continued exploitation and oppression of others”

 

[SupaDupaFresh]

She was so pretty

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

Pretty much

but that's always been a thing

Clarence 13x started the Five Percenters based off of NOI teachings and his own spin

Dr York took from damn near everybody

you can find this everywhere, cause it's essentially about schools of thought and who influences who etc

So basically people took her stuff and ran with it? I avoid the Shea Butter Twitter types for mental health reasons



I mean… I kind of agree with her overall point here about gangs and crime even if she ended up being wrong about the details as far as who actually committed the crime.

I’ll throw this in the possibly anti-Black pile.

Is there more stuff from her like that?

 

[BlackMajik]

Bell hooks on black men white women

“White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or be oppressed. Black men may be victimized by racism, but sexism allows them to act as exploiters and oppressors of women. White women may be victimized by sexism, but racism enables them to act as exploiters and oppressors of black people. Both groups have led liberation movements that favor their interests and support the continued oppression of other groups. Black male sexism has undermined struggles to eradicate racism just as white female racism undermines feminist struggle. As long as these two groups or any group defines liberation as gaining social equality with ruling class white men, they have a vested interest in the continued exploitation and oppression of others”

 

[Threnody]

Her master gloria steinem is still alive a whole generation of women are mentally fukked because of this bytch

 

[Consigliere]

Bell hooks on black men white women

“White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or be oppressed. Black men may be victimized by racism, but sexism allows them to act as exploiters and oppressors of women. White women may be victimized by sexism, but racism enables them to act as exploiters and oppressors of black people. Both groups have led liberation movements that favor their interests and support the continued oppression of other groups. Black male sexism has undermined struggles to eradicate racism just as white female racism undermines feminist struggle. As long as these two groups or any group defines liberation as gaining social equality with ruling class white men, they have a vested interest in the continued exploitation and oppression of others”

LMAO. I can see why she’s not well liked around here. And why I don’t have her in my must read list.

I’m not a fan of the Black men are the white people of the Black community Mumbo jumbo line of attack she’s using here.

 

[Matt504]

nikkas in here shytting on a Black woman who's body isn't even cold yet and can't put forth any meaningful counterarguments to the snippets of her work they're quoting.


color me shocked.

 

[Crayola Coyote]

Can you believe Spencer Rattler went to South Carolina instead of Florida. Dawg we gonna be miss state status in a couple of years.

 

[Crayola Coyote]

nikkas in here shytting on a Black woman who's body isn't even cold yet and can't put forth any meaningful counterarguments to the snippets of her work they're quoting.


color me shocked.

we keeping the same energy they had for Kobe. It’s mutual.

 

[Crayola Coyote]

When you don’t have anything good to say….

she made a career on that

 

[ogc163]

RIP always felt her work was overrated though.