The truly great bell hooks has died.
She was one of the finest, for women of color and for all women. I trust those CRT opponents don’t know who she is because they need to keep her name out of their mouths. Walk on, Warrior. ❤️
Btw she didn’t capitalize her name.
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Her examination of the intersections of sexism and racism in Ain't I A Woman is foundational. That book needs to be on the NYT best seller list.
Then you'll likely be able to put yourself in her place, if you want to, and you'll understand why she said you were not her intended audience.
Given the history of Black enslavement and women's own trafficking and mass deaths through millennia, mutual validation between white men and everyone else is kinda beside the point, since the inherited past traumas of millions that persist today only take up a paragraph or two in Western history that privileged beneficiaries of that trauma see as normal history. It's not.
Resistance to The 1619 Project is exploding. It's a corporate reaction using hired guns.
The proven history of the very corporate structure of slavery and slave trafficking from the moment it began -- and the 2+ centuries of banker-backed corporate sales of every slave put on this continent, even after 1808 law formally ended transatlantic kidnapping and trafficking -- is blowing up humans' awareness of the centuries-long project of corporate domination of everything. Historians are uncovering " target="_blank">the hidden history of racial capitalism and all the whites who participated in and benefitted from its intricate establishment of all kinds of political, social, religious systems, not just wealth building, market trading and the U.S. Constitution.
That said, I sincerely think you don't need to feel bad. Also, that the autograph you have is awesome on a lot of levels, and will increase in book market value for decades. 
But then, I think my African National Congress friend has been right after all these decades: whites can expect a pushback rejection stage for a while, considering we whites took so damn long to come to our senses about enslaving humans to build our nation with. Considering how long it's taken us whites to undo all that damage since.
They still have good reason. When we were the majority and had the power, our political fights have still lost against a vicious and persistent Jim Crow era. And our work to stop Blacks' deaths by law enforcement, criminalization of innocent Black children, horrible health abuse of Blacks by American medicine, and mass incarceration based on standards no white person is imprisoned for -- all this is no better than the lynch rate and at the turn of the 20th Century.
You're human. I get it. I'm so proud that you appreciate her. I do hope you that you give The 1619 Project a read. It's not a rehash of AA history. No promotion here at all when I say it's a real eye opener.
They bear the trauma, we bear the taint. Hurt people hurt people.
Frankly, I'm shocked that the Black people who call me friend are willing to be my friend at all. Now I see the arm's length treatment in the many small ways that I've experienced it over the last 45 years.
. . .born Gloria Jean Watkins.
https://whopam.com/2021/12/15/hopkinsville-native-bell-hooks-born-gloria-jean-watkins-dies-at-69/#
She had been ill and was surrounded by friends and family when she passed, according to a press release from her niece, Ebony Motley.
Gloria Jean Watkins was born on Sept. 25, 1952 in Hopkinsville, Ky. to Veodis and Rosa Bell Watkins, the fourth of seven siblings. She attended segregated schools in Christian County, then went on to Stanford University in California, then earned a master’s in English at the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She adopted her great-grandmother’s name as her pen name in lower case letters, she told interviewers, in order to emphasize the “substance of books, not who I am.”
She published her first book, “Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism” in 1981. Her literary career continued with more than 40 books of including essays, poetry and children’s books. Her topics include feminism, racism, culture, politics, gender roles, love, and spirituality.
In 2004, she returned to Kentucky to teach at Berea College. Another book, “Belonging: A Culture of Place,” discussed her move back. In 2010, the school opened the bell hooks Institute at Berea College. The institute houses her collection of contemporary African-American art, personal artifacts and copies of her books published in other languages. The center has attracted visitors such as Gloria Steinem, actress Emma Watson and Cornel West.
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(link) https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article256616171.html
Rest in Peace bell hooks
