Darlene Pineda

via Facebook... "Watch the How To Wake Darlene Technique... The Half Smother."

Darlene Pineda

via Facebook... In a group someone asked why there was a divide with white and black feminism. This is how I answered, and I hope I got it mostly right. Please let me know if I need to correct something... It isn't a "growing" disdain, it's one that's been there while early feminists fought to vote but were publicly racists as well, when black feminists were ignored or co-opted. While white feminists ignore their role of white women in lynchings, which were usually done with the excuse of protecting white womanhood. When white women feminists fight to work, ignoring that black women have always had to work and take care of their families and didn't have the luxury of leaning in or hiring a nanny, since they were the nanny. When white women fight for reproductive justice that means abortion, forgetting that the luxury of not having your child gunned down in the street is also a form of reproductive justice. When white women don't call out the racism of Bill Cosby getting zingers at the awards while Woody Allen got to keep his career. When white women act like white saviors instead of sisters. When they ignore the missing black children and women. When they say #alllivesmatter and #notallwhites instead of putting themselves on the front lines for equality. When white families adopt little foreign babies to "save them" while promoting the economics and politics that lead to a country being torn apart by violence and poverty. When they don't acknowledge their role in white patriarchy and how they benefit from it. Every time a white woman talks about being in a scary neighborhood--which means a black neighborhood--ignoring all the women who live there. If you've ever been afraid when a black man got in the elevator with you? Clutched your purse tighter? That. White women have been complicit in the white supremacy, and any feminism that is not also about that is not black feminism, it's just about the patriarchy. If you go to Google, read some bell hooks, read black feminists, do some research, see what woc fight for, what their reality is... Because it really isn't the same. My feminism includes immigration, knows that poverty and housing and education are all tools of white supremacy used against POC. Knows that a few dead French are worthy of a hashtag and a march of world leaders but 2000+ massacred Nigerians barely get a news blip. That a white shooter is a disturbed and mentally ill young man, a black shooter is a thug and a Muslim shooter is a terrorist. It's a huge, huge divide, and to be a real ally one needs to not assume what others *should* care about or realize, but ask and listen what being treated fairly means to a woc, because it's not necessarily the same thing you have in mind.

Darlene Pineda

via Facebook... This. " The conservative response to King--to demonize him in the '60s and to domesticate him today--has always been essentially the same: It has been about coping with the fear that seekers of justice may overturn what we see as the natural order and still be lionized. But if we manage to forget that, sometimes, doing things that terrify people is the only recourse to injustice, there is no point in having a Martin Luther King Day at all." "

Darlene Pineda

via Facebook... " Latinos should remember that while some of us have privileges associated with Whiteness, this is not White Privilege. However, the only way we can understand our own racialization is to identify those areas in which some of us benefit from White Supremacy and where we don’t – a category Eduardo Bonilla Silva calls “honorary white” – and attack those areas if we are truly in the business of killing White Supremacy. " This.

Darlene Pineda

via Facebook... I actually was in bed with a damp cloth on my head. I felt like I needed to swoon and have vapors. The cold did feel really nice.

Darlene Pineda

via Facebook... Eating homemade chicken soup, prepared by a wonderful friend.

Darlene Pineda

via Facebook... Reluctantly awake. Hope to sleep more. Attack of the Crud.

Darlene Pineda

via Facebook... Awake. My eyes are swollen almost shut but I finished a book and will start a new one. Love that I can make the print big on the kindle, and dim the back light. Makes sick reading easier. A two dog, one cat night. So far.