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Originally Posted by AnotherKD
I apologize- I don't mean to offend or to try to bring up something that has been discussed before. I guess I just thought that while I know that there are certain issues that affect women of some ethnicities, but I can't think of a single issue that only affects white women. And so I'll just leave it at that, as I really don't want to start any sort of argument.
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You definitely aren't being offensive.
These discussions are par for the course as far as I'm concerned.
Whether people like to admit it in "mixed company," there are issues that are considered as primarily (there's no need to say "only" as though life is so formulaic) affecting white women. Women's suffrage, women's labor rights, and women's liberation were once considered among those issues. When groups of
predominantly white women (look at the photos if you don't know that) marched and spoke out for these rights, they were doing so based on their experiences and their perspectives with little consideration to what racial and ethnic minority women (and poor women) were experiencing. Some have claimed they were doing so for "all women" but that wasn't the case. I agree with people like Angela Davis and bell hooks in that regard.
The same applies to what happened with predominantly white GLOs (and nonGLOs). Organizations don't become predominantly (insert group) by accident and with no consideration to the concerns and perspectives of the majority membership. You especially don't persist in being predominantly for 50-100+ years without the concerns and perspectives of the majority being a focal point--whether blatant and based on founding purpose or just by "coincidence" and outcome.