Mind, Body and Soul - Women of Color Conference Keynote

Feminist writer bell hooks opens the Women of Color Eleventh Annual Conference. Feminist, social thinker, memoirist, intellectual, and teacher bell hooks has written over 24 books, including Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism, named one of the 20 most influential women's books of the past 20 years by Publishers Weekly. Utne Reader calls hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life," and Atlantic Monthly lauds her ability to bring "moral imagination and critical intelligence to bear on the definingly American matter of race." Although hooks is primarily known as a feminist thinker, her writings cover a broad range of topics including gender, racism, teaching, classism, and the significance of media for contemporary culture. She is Distinguished Professor of English at City College in New York.

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[samdonuge]

man, watchin bell hooks on youtube. aren't we a rarity

[coffeebeaner]

More people should now about her, unfortunately. :\

[Freevoice1960]

@dalishisnsassy it depends on the context......not all women are the same no matter what color. When you get to the feminist thought process it is all about destruction in the name of power so I don't understand why black women would follow that train of thought...thinking that it's about their liberation...

[dalishisnsassy]

@Freevoice1960 So with that said,is there no difference within the experiences of being a white/black woman?

[gysharp]

Some black people want to move past racism, but most white people will not let them. You see, we always see color first and that manages how we respond to each other. We do manage our relationships with a set of rules and if we are true to our self we all approach the relationship with rules based on color. White America continues to reap the benefits from the shame of their ancestors,but they do not want the responsibility of fixing the shame.

[Freevoice1960]

It's always white people doing something to black people (the innocent poor) always needing pitty....like children that never grow up. It is a sad state of affairs that all these socalled educated people pass this burden to those that come behind them as a something to treasure.....lord have mercy!....there is no such thing as white feminism and black feminism....only benefits those that talk about it.

[Freevoice1960]

@SandrineSoprano you don't have to agree but the fact remains that Africans started the dehumanization of their own people way before the Europeans came in.....I was born in Suriname and nobody can convince me that whatever happens today with black people around the globe is solely to be blamed on Europeans. If black people directed the same energy that they use to blame Europeans, in their own human development things would be different today period.

[SandrineSoprano]

@Freevoice1960 I dont exactly agree. Im from the French WestIndies, & aware on my island of decimations: wak Indians by Caribbean Indians, then genocide of the latter by the Spanish colonizing forces.Then there Enslaving by Europeans of Africans, in my land, barbaric treatments;Cheap labour imports of Indians & Chinese people by the Europeans; rape&sexual domination,99% from the Europeans onto the other races.Then another type of slavery, v Blacks: mind-manipulation towards inferiority complex.

[SandrineSoprano]

Nice one. Divinely-inspired

[MrRadaikon]

Chattel and Cattle are TWO different words!

[5104560711]

@Freevoice1960 BARBARISM ha! do u really want to get into that 1960, u sound like a pretty opinionated fellow.. i dont wanna break u down. u might wanna take a few more history classes before u start to throw out the word barbarism. (yes yes, Black ppl who do nothing and blame everything on europeans are tired; but baby history speaks for its self. ud better pick up a book before u begin this debate while u just throwing out assumptions.)

[5104560711]

@Freevoice1960 what was said about self gain, that's not where my argument lies. historically no form of slavery is comparable to the enslavement of Africans by europeans. slaves in Africa were seen as war captives, not property. they were not enslaved for life, broken up from thier families, raped and beaten and they could eventually come out of slavery. thats what i am saying. n stop with the name calling 1960 it makes u look childesh. debate with facts, not mere comebacks.