Momma Cyndi, back in the ’70s there were loads of white South African “feminists” who took their cue from the American and European second-wave feminists and didn’t give a damn for black women. There was some effort to compensate for this later, people acknowledging that black women were multiply oppressed and therefore couldn’t be automatically treated like Cosmo babes, but you get the idea.
Some black American and Caribbean women were so peeved with 1960s and 1970s feminists that they came up with the concept of “womanism”, rather like Steve Biko walking out of NUSAS. I don’t buy into it completely myself, but basically they were arguing that the white feminists were defining femininity in terms of white women, and I think they had a point.
Unless Ms. Moeti wants to correct me, I suspect this was something like her point.
