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so long and hard. >> what are the issues and challenges facing black women that are different than those that the larger community faces. >> uh-huh. which raises an interesting issue, avis, it seems black women's issues are never a separate discussion from black men. separately? >> that's a critical point, and a point that was raised before, right? when we think of black issues, it is almost a cultural appropriation. when you think blackness, you tend to think black maleness, and likewise when you think of

women in america, the face of womanhood in america seems to be a white women. black women are in the periphery, and until we make intentional acts to put a frame on the black women's experience, it's rare that it happens. >> and how do you do that? >> i think something i have been struggling with a lot lately is what i see as a widening schism when black feminists specifically, and white feminists, and i think you saw that come to a head with the hashtag solidarity is for white women that was created in order to bring these issues to the forefront, and what was interesting about the way that she did that, is she sparked this global hashtag where people were talking about what it means to be a black woman, and how it is that we are often asked to

separate our race from our gender, so the idea of intersectionality becomes lost, when we're told we need to stop complaining about racism because we need to fight for women. and black women have been told that since the dawn of time, and then the interesting part was, is that when that hashtag made it to the blogestsphere, she was erased from it. black women are erased from the create. >> or community chimed in with that . . . but avis you touched upon frame, and a lot of women want to talk about these stereo types . . .

brittany i'm going to go to you. the help, precious, tyler perry movies. the passy black best friend. angry black woman. the sassy black friend who is bringing down the house. what is the reality versus the main stream media perception? >> i want to echo the point that it is really important for us to name. when we began we were talk about black powers for black men hashtag, and that was created by jamila lemieux. but what you have pointed to is the inability to see black women as complex and humane.

so we don't get complex representations, we get these caricatures, and they are not just happening from white directors or stories that center white women as the help, but tyler perry frequently does that. i have argued that his movies are very much about redeeming black men, and they do that on the backs of black women. and black women are always asked to take a back seat because the issues that black men face are seen as more urgent. there are really high rates of intimate partner violence and homicide for black women in the community as well, that rival the number of black men being killed by other black men. we don't have a huge body of literature that talks about what

is happening with black girls with education. so we simply don't know. when you do those searches comparable to what we know about black boys and young black men, it is simply a mountain compared to a small paper. >> that point is so powerful, and so important. i did a research study a couple of years ago on black girls specifically. and when i was first starting to do my interview for that it was almost a dearth of information on black girls and if you just do a basic google search on black girls, the main things that point up are sexual pornographic images. one of the most disheartening findings, was that black girls when they are young, they have

all of these aspirations, all of these goals. they want to reach the stars, but as they get older, they are saddled with so much responsibility, helping out at home, and helping to bring home the bacon, having to be safe in spaces that oftentimes aren't safe places. and teachers want to sort of dampen when they might perceive as aggression, but when black girls are trying to participation in discussions, it's seen as aggression and not lady like, so they are tampered down so by the time they reach high school those same girls that have huge aspiration s, their aspirations are trunk indicated -- >> is that unique for black girls or girls in general? >> specifically with black girls, becaus

the -- trying to reach a docile person. and they face that as well because the standard of beauty often rejects that is a black girl's body. so it's on interesting dichotomy that black girls face. they kind of walk a very tight, tight rope. >> so what does the future hold for these young black women? and how can black women achieve equality? keep tweeting, and we'll get to back. ♪

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>> imani moving forward will minnelals and even gen exer's differently? >> i think they do. and i think a lot of that has to do with social media spaces like facebook and twitter. because proportionately there are more black people on twitter than white people. and with the amount of tumbler blogs that are based in black feminism what have you, we're seeing an availability for black people across the

[ technical difficulties ] >> using that hashtag black powers for black men . . . >> brittany going to you, is that happening right now? is there space to move forward together as a community? >> i think there are really good brothers who are doing this kind of work. there is a new writer on the

scene, who has a new book offest says out. and i watched what it means for black men to look at their issues, but i also spent a good portion of this day having a battle with the rapper to live on twitter because i called him out about his failure to be the best ally he could be for women in hip hop faces. so i want black men to become invested and to recognize that their liberation is tied to black women's liberation, and so if only half of the race has the things that they need to survive, none of us will survive. and i think that's a truth that continues to float to the background for black men, as they buy into these battles of endangerment, and they benefit from the fact that black women

do a lot of the political labor to make conditions better for them, and i have asked do black men care about us and love us as much as we care about them? and often that question is met with a sure no. >> the tipping point here, avis in terms of the true power and strength of women within the black community, when is that the linchpin? >> to me it's happening now. as we're seeing our voices rise particularly in any digital space as has been mentioned, that's the key, to be able to assert our own narrative in various ways. as long as we can expand that to other forces in the media, that will be that tipping point to ignored. >> and

imani, i'll give you the last word. >> in terms of black men joining us in our might, one thing that hasn't been mentioned is reproductive rights and justice. i don't see a lot of black men invested in the struggle for the right to safe abortion care, the right to contraception, and i would like to see more black men step up and realize that part of black women's freedom is tied to our reproductive freedom, and when we are denied that freedom, we are denied that freedom. >> thanks to all of our guests, but before we go, waj has a following. ♪ >> online users decided to respond to the nsa invasion of

privacy with biting sarcasm this weekend. here are some tweets that made the prestigious cut. and allow me to share this one . . . and for you toy hards out there . . . next up to fish or to code that is the question. if you were a homeless man given a choice by a stranger between getting a hundred bucks or free coding lessons, what would you choose? leo will provide updates of his progress through a facebook page that patrick created for him.

and we're talking school textbooks with bill nigh. we asked you to post the most questionable thing you have ever seen in a school textbook, and this is what some of you said . . . keep tweeting us at ajamstream as always. >> all right. we look forward to seeing you tomorrow. online. ♪

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