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The question is this do you think Women should have the "privilege: to make #EqualPAy. 158 million women in the U.S are wondering...
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Patricia Arquette gave a speech that should have resulted in praise. Accepting the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress February 22nd, she made a call for equality for all women.
Afterwards, she made additional comments.
And some little bitches got bent out of shape.
She declared, "The truth of it is the older an actress gets, the less money she makes. It's inexcusable that we talk about equal rights for women in other countries and yet we don't have equal rights for women in America. It's time for all the women in America and all the men who love women and all the gay people and all the people of color that we've fought for, to fight for us now!"
This outraged those like vagina challenged Dave Zirin.
To which we say, curb yourselves, bitches.
Examine what Patricia said: "we don't have equal rights for women in America." No, we don't.
"It's time for all the women in America and all the men who love women and all the gay people and all the people of color that we've fought for, to fight for us now!"
How is that controversial?
Little bitches like Dave Zirin and Janell Hobson have insisted the above is offensive.
As a student of Howard Zinn and KPFK, Patricia's well aware that the labor movement was about securing rights for men, that the gay rights movement was largely about securing rights for men, and that Civil Rights was about securing rights for African-American men and women.
Yet on all of those efforts, men and women -- of all races -- were willing to work together.
Now if you're not aware about the gay rights movement, gay men and lesbians -- especially in NYC -- did not get along. Lesbians rightly noted that they were excluded or ignored.
Arquette's correct. Everyone worked on the labor movement, the gay rights movement and the Civil Rights Movement.
And isn't it past time that this let's-all-work-together attitude used on the previous movements was applied to women's rights?
Because there is no Equal Rights Amendment.
And that is in part due to the refusal of many men to work on it.
It is past time that women were joined in the battle for equal rights with people who have been willing to fight for other movements but drawn the line at fighting for women.
Patricia's remarks are (sadly) controversial.
So little bitches, like Dave Zirin (who hails from a political ideology which has regularly suppressed women), leap to the front of the line to condemn Patricia.
We're told she was non-inclusive.
Really?
Because her call for equality was for all women.
Her call for work to be done on the issue was noting how we, on the left, had pulled together for labor, for gay rights and for Civil Rights so couldn't we do the same for women's rights?
Patricia's remarks were inclusive and accurate.
The same can't be said for a speech that the bitches attacking Patricia took time to applaud.
Did anyone offer anything but blind devotion to John Legend's remarks at the Academy Awards?
He stated, "We live in the most incarcerated country in the world. There are more black men under correctional control today than were under slavery in 1850."
There are so many problems with that.
Factually?
In 1850, there were 3.6 million African-American or Black residents of the United States. Not all were slaves but let's set that aside.
The 1850 census showed a US population of 23 million.
Today
There are 317 million people in the US according to the census.
In 2013, Black or African-American residents in the US amounted to 45 million people.
So 3.6 million Black or African-American persons in 1850, 45 million today?
Yeah, chances are that there are more African-Americans/Black people in prison today than there were in slavery in 1850.
The argument if factually superficial but part of an effort to link prison and slavery.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons breaks down the prison population in the US as follows (categories used are those used by FBP):
White male: 454,100
Black male: 526,000
Hispanic male: 314,600
Other male: 118,100
White female: 51,500
Black female: 23,100
Hispanic female: 17,600
Other female: 11,9000
Based on those figures there are 549,100 African-American or Black men and women in prison.
Remember our 3.6 million figure earlier?
That was the number of all Black or African-American residents in the US in 1850.
Is 549,100 greater than 3.6 million?
No, it is not.
Of that 3.6 million figure, the number who were slaves was 3,204,313.
Is 549,1000 greater than 3.2 million?
No.
But who piled on John Legend?
No one.
Equally true, the NAACP has noted "African-American and Hispanics comprised 58% of all prisoners in 2008."
But John Legend didn't mention Hispanics, did he?
And no one slammed him for the oversight.
Are we still pretending that the bitches had any real standards they were holding Patricia too?
Patricia called for equality for all women and called for everyone to work on that as everyone had worked on past movements.
This became controversial.
Can you image what would have been done to Patricia if she'd gotten her facts wrong?
She would have been accused of disrespecting those who had been enslaved.
But notice that no one's accusing John Legend of that.
He leads a very charmed life where he makes a lot of money for performing in places like Bahrain. He'll make a fortune Monday for playing in that torture regime state.
And he gets away with that too.
Women -- of all races?
Not so lucky.
Any woman who dares to speak up for women's equality will quickly discover that she will be slammed and hated by those who don't see equality for women as a real issue.
That's what the attacks on Patricia were really about.