Divide and Conquer
It's Time for White Gay Men to Show Up (Behind the Collar Series #29)
One of my seminary professors said in a queer ethics class years ago that oppressed people broker their own liberation on the backs of other oppressed people. His point was that an oppressed group of people tends to treat their liberation movement as separate and distinct from other liberation movements. There is certainly some truth that each group’s experience of oppression is unique, that the ways it manifests reflect the specific systems and dynamics of oppression present in society for that group. If you look at the feminist movement in the United States, for instance, women of color often asserted that feminism was a shaped by and served the interests of privileged, white women. For this reason, a number of other feminist theologies emerged to speak to the unique experiences of women of color, such as womanist theology for Black women and mujerista theology for Latina/Hispanic women.
