Gloria Steinem Says Black Women ‘Invented The Feminist Movement’
Gloria Steinem is all about sisterhood.
In an interview with Black Enterpriseidea that a transformation has and continues to bar them
“I suspicion they invented a feminist movement. we know we all have opposite experiences, though we schooled feminism disproportionately from black women,†Steinem told Black Enterprise contributor Stacey Tisdale.
The 80-year-old romantic has had done many life-long friendships and alliances with absolute black feminists via her 50-year career. In 1971 she launched Ms. Magazine and after featured singer and romantic Pam Grier as a initial black lady to be on a cover of a repository in 1975. Steinem was also tighten with black romantic Flo Kennedythe good Alice Walker
“I comprehend that things being what they are, substantially a white middle-class partial of a transformation got reported more,” Steinem continued. “But if we demeanour during a numbers and a really initial check of women meditative about responding on women’s issues, African-American women were twice as expected to support feminism and feminist issues as White women.”
When Tisdale asked Steinem what she would tell black women who pronounced a feminist transformation isn’t about them or doesn’t pronounce to them, Steinem replied, “I don’t contend anything. we listen.”
Listen to a full talk below.