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What is your question and which country are you talking about?

In the U.S. African women have as much rights as anyone else. The loudest ones of course seem to feel they need more than anyone else claiming racism and oppression when the coffee machine runs out of creamer, but I don't know of anyone who claims that they don't have their 'rights'.

2006-10-27 09:03:41 · answer #1 · answered by Javelinl 3 · 0 1

The problem here is that you are in a faction group called African Women. Until all women in this country can come together and stop functioning in splinter groups, we will never have any power as women. My rights as a German/Polish/Swedish American are violated every day but whenever I try to organize some women to work together over a single issue, these women break into groups and cannot back each up unless they are treated in a certain way. There is even a book out called how to talk to women of color. When are we ever going to see how powerless we are until we can unite and stop this petty bickering amongst ourselves.

2006-10-27 16:42:00 · answer #2 · answered by juncogirl3 6 · 2 0

Women's rights in general have not been fulfilled in this country. This is especially true of African American women - who are still the lowest paid members of the workforce (Black women college grads make less money than White male high school dropouts) and are subject to widespread discrimination.

2006-10-27 16:30:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Black Feminist Thought (Routledge, 1990), Collins (sociology, Univ. of Cincinnati) looked at the role of African American women in the feminist movement. Here she focuses on the prejudices they face. Collins discusses the culture of silence in which African American women are seen but not heard, making them outsiders within their own race. She notes that their accomplishments are often ignored, especially when the women transcend expectations. She points to Mary McLeod Bethune, whose role in FDR's administration is often overlooked, and Angela Davis, who found that her Civil Rights work boiled down to her Afro hairdo. Collins discusses the need for African American women to avoid being segmented into areas the present culture finds acceptable.

The only recourse I can think of for "all women" not only the african american women, is to keep fighting for her rights, even if she gets accused of "being the loudest", after all it's the "squeaky wheel that gets the oil", right? :-)

There are many other groups who get worse treatment than the african american people, sadly they have not spoken up yet, or rather, as much as i'd like to see them.

2006-10-28 04:35:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The promise of rights have not been full filled for women in general. God bless

2006-10-27 16:16:55 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 2 0

It would help if told us what country you are talking about. It isn't true in America.

2006-10-27 16:06:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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