White men are static.
Black women have made some nice gains.
Black men have LOST earning power.
Black men losing earning power does NOT help the black family. Black women want equality, but this is killing us. Black women love our black men. We cannot play the same games white women can with the 'stick it to men' version of feminism (and there are different versions), because we lose in ways white women cannot and won't.
Today, despite the progress women have made, they earn only 77 cents for every dollar men earn -- and women of color earn even less. Hillary is leading the charge in the Senate to strengthen equal pay laws and end pay disparities between men and women.
Notice how 'women' is separated out from 'women of color'... for once; but 'men' is not separated out from 'men of color'.
There is a war on, and I don't like it. Black men -- Barack Obama -- is the stand in for white men, when black men don't deserve to be that stand in.
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