It’s a privilege to be able to disengage yourself from conversations about race. As a white woman, I know that I have the privilege of being able to decide when I want to talk about or think about race. Women of colour do not have that option.
4. Our struggles are different
There is a lot of racism in the history of feminism. In the United States, it is taught that women were granted the right to vote in 1920, but the truth is that the women’s suffrage movement was about white women, and black women didn’t have the right to vote until 1965. To this day, our struggles are not the same, and pretending that they are is a problem.
The struggle of a white woman is not the same as that of a woman of colour. We often see white celebrities talking about equal pay or paid maternity leave, but where is their outrage about race-related policy brutality?