On White Feminists and Multiracial Feminisms

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You don’t have to be a part of a subordinated group to know an injustice is wrong and to stand against it. White women need not be victims of racism to recognize it is wrong and stand up against it. Unless that is done, white women will never understand how they support racism. If the only issues that feminists deem political are those they have experienced personally, their frame of reference is destined to be narrowly defined by by their own lived experience.

-Becky Thompson “Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism.”