Sunday, July 15, 2018

IN SEARCH OF OUR MOTHERS GARDENS EXCERPT

feeling rebloggy

Trellie Jeffers, as quoted by Alice Walker in In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, 1983



“What then can be the destiny of a people that pampers and cherishes the blood of the white slaveholder who maimed and degraded their female ancestor? What can be the future of a class of descendants of slaves that implicitly gives slaveholders greater honor than the African women they enslaved? What can be the end of a class that pretends to honor blackness while secretly despising working class black-skinned women whose faces reveal no trace of white blood?”

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