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http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2013/02/20/
the-feminist-movement-what-happened-and-why/

2 Steinem, Gloria, “Do You Know This Woman? She
Knows You, A Profile of Alice Walker,” Ms. Magazine,
June, 1982, Vol.X, No.12
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Walker, Alice. “Black Panthers or black punks?”
May 5, 1993, The New York Times

4 Steinem, Gloria. “Women Are Never Front-Runners,”
New York Times, January 8, 2008
5 http://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/15/books/sexismracism-and-black-women-writers.html
6 Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. ”Black Creativity: on the Cutting
Edge” in Time Magazine Oct. 10, 1994
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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2010/
11/factcheck_the_rhyme.htm

8 Davis, Thulani, “Spinning Race at Harvard,” The Village
Voice, Jan.15,2002
9 SOLOSKI, Alexis “The Racially Charged ‘Dutchman’ at
National Black Theater”… “Deep Down in the Subway,
Swipe The New York Times, MAY 7, 2014
10 http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/m/mills-mary/
mills-00.html
11 http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/17/books/l-a-criticwith-balance-a-letter-from-norman-mailer-458091.html
12 Natalie J. Sokoloff, and Christina Pratt’s 2005 book,
Family & Relationships — where the authors wrote:
“Black women are also more likely than their White
counterparts to inflict lethal violence against their
husbands.”
13 http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Audit-seeksinvestigation-of-inmate-sterilizations-5564923.php

15 http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/archive/vol28/
vol28n16/n9.html
16 Saulny Susan, “Woody Allen Settles Suit Against
Longtime Producer” NY Times June 12, 2002
17 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/us/warning-theliterary-canon-could-make-students-squirm.html

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14 Diouf, Sylviane, Servants of Allah, African Muslims
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But now that the Sister Police and the
Skip Machine and Ms. Steinem have
buried some black male writers, members
of the volunteer black-feminist-whitemale auxiliary like Maurice Berger
think that the Sister Police would end
with the brothers? no! Now they going
after the Big House Canon. They
marching up the literary Mount Olympus
with they torches, Mr. Maurice Berger.
They want warning labels put on titles
that might hurt their feelings; that
might trigger bad emotions.17 So no
longer is it Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed
or those called out by the VV nest of
feminists: Bill Gunn, Ed Bullins, and
even James Baldwin. No, they talking
about the great scott fitzgerald
and pretty soon they’ll demand that
the great william shakespeare
might need a warning label and maybe
some of his plays banned. And what
of the great geoffrey chaucer’s
misogynist Romance Of The Rose?
The same guys who cheered the Sister
Police when they took us down
are now yelling and screaming about
censorship and political correctness.