And the street of the

Oh, it doesn't matter what you have

just as the wrong as you are there.

So come on every guy

grab or girl. Now I would like to talk a little bit about the black feminist Marxist tradition.

Wha wha wha wha are you ready?

I'm ready we're waiting for this all right hell yeah so one of the

thinkers that is highlighted in this reader is a woman named Claudia Jones. So, Claudia Jones was a Trinidadian who immigrated to the U.S. in

in 1924.

She joined the Communist Party because she admired their defense of the Scottsboro boys, which we talked

about a little bit earlier.

They were nine young black men falsely accused of raping white women in the South.

So that kind of puts the lie to the idea that only quote-unquote

class-wide demands are going to draw people to the communist movement.

Moving on. She grew an influence throughout her career. She became a writer, an editor, a speaker, and an organizer.

She was deported to the UK for being a commie in 1955, and then she died in 1964 and was buried next to Marx himself in Highgate

Cemetery as if you need any better Marxist credentials than that.

Though her most famous piece was an end to the neglect of the problems of the Negro woman

exclamation point which was published in 1949. In this work she argued that black women are triply oppressed as women as workers and as black people. She says it is a huge problem that black women are relegated to domestic work

and it's normalized all over culture with quote-unquote

mammy imagery, right?

The idea that black women are naturally servile.

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