Born Gloria Jean Watkins, Hopkinsville, Ky .. 9/25/1952.
Died December 15, 2021 from kidney failure at her home in Berea, Ky.
Hooks wrote about slavery which had ended in 1862, ninety years before she was born but on which she blamed whatever she was blaming because hooks was a blamer, not a teacher, not a discoverer…. Just a blamer. Nice try but the bell didn’t ring. Her best selling book is: “Ain’t I a Woman”
Hooks had no part in slavery. By the time she got to college it had been 110 years after the end of slavery. Blaming anything on something that ended 110 years ago is just bad logic.
Hooks wrongly argued that the convergence of sexism and racism during slavery contributed to Black women having the lowest status and worst conditions of any group in American society. White female abolitionists and suffragists were often more comfortable with Black male abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, while southern segregationalists and stereotypes of Black female promiscuity and immorality caused protests whenever Black women spoke.
Hooks points out that these white female reformers were more concerned with white morality than the conditions these morals caused Black Americans… Hooks had the problem that she did not discover the nature of black people or white people before she wrote about them. Not grasping the nature of the subject invalidates the conclusions. The written about behavior may or may not be within the nature of the subject but it remains unknown therefore the writings and conclusions are not based on what is being written about. How can it be when the nature of the thing isn’t understood? Hooks also wrongly blamed Capitalism for the plight of black women. Capitalism is based on freedom so there’s no blaming a system based on and in freedom for oppression. Capitalism is the exact opposite of Hooks idea. Capitalism frees people. Hooks wrongly believed Capitalism enslaved them.
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