We Demand an End to the Political and Social Oppression and Economic Exploitation of African Women.

9. We Demand an End to the Political and Social Oppression and Economic Exploitation of African Women. We demand an immediate end to the particular abuse of African women by this U.S. colonial system. We recognize that this abuse has always included rape and subjugation by the white slave master and an attempt by white power to separate African women from African men. The oppression of African women includes forcible subjugation to the degrading U.S. “welfare” system, which makes participation in the criminalization of African men a pre-requisite for receiving a tiny pittance. We demand an end to this degradation, as well as other forms of oppression, such as forcible sterilization through Norplant and other means, the theft of African babies from their mothers, the subjugation of African children to brutal, militarized school system, and the massive imprisonment of sons, husbands and fathers of African women.

We believe in the absolute equivocal, political, social and economical equality of African men and women. We demand an end to the special oppression of African women and the elevation of women to their rightful place as equal partners and leaders in forward motion of the development of African liberation as leaders, makers and shapers of human history.

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