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Women’s lib movement should strengthen struggle- . . » .TORONTO (CP) - The women’s liberationmovement shouldstrengthen rather than drain energy from the struggle to liberate black people, Rosemary Brown, a New Democratic Party member of the British Columbia legislature, said.Mrs. Brown, first black woman ever elected to a legislative chamber in Canada, told a national congress of black women that “the true liberation of black people depends on their rejection of the inferiority of women . . . and re-affirmation of respect for general human potential in whatever form it is conceived.She told the congress, sponsored by the Canadian Negro Women's Association, that she made thechoice for women’s liberation because “I believe our men are strong enough to accept me as an equal.’’Mrs. Brown, elected to the legislature last year for the riding of Vancouver-Burrard, said as a black person and a woman in a society which is both racist and sexist “is to be in the unique position of having no where else to go butup.”Most black women in North America are still confined to the most menial and lowest-paying occupations, she said. The women's liberation movement is the struggle for the right to participate in decisions affecting our lives.She said she rejected the idea that black women should step aside and allow the black man to go ahead so he can develop pride in his achievements and be proud to be black and male “and have lots of manhood and all that.”“I consider this to be the most devastating put-down of the black male that I have heard,” she said.“What it says in effect is that these weak frail, inferior creatures — our men — are unable to make it unless we prop them up, and if we move from behind them they would fall flat on their faces.”She said women’s liberation is not an anti-male movement. “I see it and experience it as a movement to help women get the strength together to help themselves.”It is a pro-human movement and “I expect our men to work with our women so that we may achieve these goals.”
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Brandon Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Fri, Apr 27, 1973
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