tree_portal quoted Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's …
That a white woman associated with the anti-slavery movement could assume a racist posture toward a Black girl in the North reflected a major weakness in the abolitionist campaign--its failure to promote a broad anti-racist consciousness.
— Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis (Page 59)
Reminds me of white liberals who are very quick to say Black Lives Matter on social media but still support police, who are known to attack black people. White women wanted education, but ignored black women who also wanted education. Even Frederick Douglass's daughter was prohibited from attending classes because one white girl said in a vote that she did not want her to be in the classroom with them. The principal who issued the order was a women who called herself an abolitionist.