How American politics constantly neglects black women
A new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) entitled, “The State of African-American Women in the United States” highlights that the intersection of racial and gender disparities meets at the experience of black women. Despite this, in the last presidential election, they had the highest voter participation rate of any comparable group in the country.
Black women experience socioeconomic inequity more than anyone else, yet they vote more than all others (and almost always in favor of the Democratic candidate). There are two important implications in this reality. First, their policy concerns have gone largely unaddressed. Second, despite the evidence of the black electorate bellwether, there is little real effort by candidates to work hard for those votes. The Republican Party assumes it is unobtainable. The Democratic Party knows it can rely on overwhelming support from the black community because of precedent and, quite honestly, lack of a viable alternative.
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/05/how_american_politics_constantly_neglects_black_women/
Thoughts?
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And I dialed back on that thought in our women's rights groups so as to not alienate.
I strongly recommend Sister Citizen by Melissa Harris-Perry to ALL women in America to understand how perhaps we view the world.
A few years ago 'The Help' (both book and movie) were the greatest thing since sliced bread not only in America - but at DU. Trying to say, "Hey folks! This is a whole lot of bullshit!" was not acceptable.
Melissa took heat for her snark while watching the movie. But - instead of America saying, "Maybe there's truth. Maybe she knows better than us what is so horribly wrong with this outsider dominant culture perspective," - there was a lot of push back on her for speaking for so many of us.
There shouldn't have been - it should have been - we can hear and see you now.
A bit farther down in the article -
black women have clearly made their most pressing concerns known: among other things, they need health insurance and more access to doctors, reduction of violent crime, equal access and opportunity to quality education, and a paycheck that does not discriminate against them for being black and female.
We also need FAIR treatment in the doctor's office. And we (myself personally) need assurance that we won't be used as disposable guinea pigs - or disposable in general.
And the dollar earned per men lowered down an average of what black and hispanic women make on average to white men. The number is much lower than the standard - which is what professional caucasian women make. 
We are in the lower 60 cent range.
