A Black Feminist Thought !!!

When reading the Patricia Hill Collins article and trying to take it apart for my understanding I realized that it was not only an eye opener for me but it inspired me to start thinking in another way. Now as a women studies major I was aware of the Black Feminist movement and what it entailed, although as far as African American women and history went I knew a little but not enough to say I knew it all.
I agree highly with what Collins was trying to get across she made it evident that it was important not only as women but as African American women it is a necessity that we produce Black feminist with a reference in a particular group being community, historical, material etc.
It was sad but yet good to know that as Black women their were very little of us getting advanced degrees who had the resources, family and community support behind them to strive in their educational advancements.
As I look at the world now and the state that we are in especially when it comes to the war and voting in the presidential election it is a must that us women whether, black, white, Latino or Asian pacific islander have to stand up for what we believe in a press towards that mark. Often times I feel that as women we look down upon or ourselves and do not even think about giving the situation or even ourselves the benefit of the doubt. " Those Black women who are feminists are critical of how Black culture and many of its traditions oppress women ." (505) I believe that the problem lies when we as Black women lack to speak up and fight for what we believe is wrong but instead remain silent. It is important that we take our ideas and put them to work. For we must know that " Re- articulating a Black women's standpoint refashions the concrete and reveals the more universal human dimensions of Black women's everyday lives".(506) In order for Black women to understand to fight for what they believe they have to be willing to change and be a feminist at work to change what is needed for this approach will allow" Afrocentric feminist thought allows African -American women to bring a Black women's standpoint to larger epistemological dialogues concerning the nature of the matrix of domination."(508)