I am responding to Smith’s “Introduction to Home Girls” because I am a young white woman with many African-American friends. I feel that as a non-biased individual in order to truely understand where my friends thoughts and viewpoints are coming from and being fueled by. While I already had an inclination of what some of Smith's thoughts and words would be I felt myself stangely moved by them. She was quick to denounce any myths that undermine the colored feminist movement in a way that left out the feeling of disgust or angst that I often hear in my friends voices. Smith is very sucessful in proving her thesis: Black feminism, or any feminism for that matter, is legitimate.
By addressing misconceptions and providing the truth about colored feminism, she is allowing unknowing individuals a look into the real trials and tribulations in their movement. Smith tells of how
In the section “Home Truths”, the lesser-known achievements of the Black feminist Movement are brought to our attention. She speaks of her time in the Combahee River Collective, “The concept of simultaneity of oppression is still the crux of a Black feminist understanding of political reality and, I believe, one of the most significant ideological contributions of Black feminist thought” (Smith 37). I love how Smith point out that the Colored Feminist Movement is more than about being a woman of the world, that it goes far beyond that and enters into politics. I feel that women in the world today have to band together as sisters, no matter what race or religion, and work towards bettering our living standards as a whole and abandon diversity...for the world is broken up enough as it is.
Well the more I read about Smith's commentation on the myths I was so infuriated by
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