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blackamazon:

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thetart:

Was Michelle Obama supposed to stand on stage in front of 20,000 people plus her two daughters and say “These two are cute and all, but what I’m most proud of is serving on the board of directors of TreeHouse Foods!” or talk about how being named president of the Harvard Law Review sustains her to this day? Because what Jessica Valenti is REALLY saying is Malia and Sasha’s lives don’t count nearly as much as the degree to which their mother’s bio adheres to middle class educated WHITE feminism. It’s not some abstract debate about mommy wars and such, it is THESE TWO YOUNG WOMEN RIGHT HERE:

How do you look at those two faces and deny their mom the right to get on stage and say they are the most important things in her world? How do you deny THEIR right to HEAR HER SAY THAT? Because when you put your face on camera or your fingers on keys and belittle that relationship, you’re not talking about feminism anymore. At that point you’re huffing white supremacy straight out of the can if you think some random white woman with a microphone pack gets to dictate any of those things.

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