There’s extensive research that confirms that Anthony betrayed Black people — especially Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells. When forced to choose between supporting Black people who needed the vote as political protection from lynching and the KKK and white men, she chose white men (this information is from Angela Y. Davis’ Women, Race, & Class, as well an article written in the New York Times earlier this year). Elizabeth Stanton was even quoted as saying she’d rather cut off a limb rather than have a Black man vote before a white woman. The intent and message was quite clear.

In regard to “how did you go from supporting intersectional feminism to supporting the black agenda?” I never stopped supporting legitimate intersectional feminism, rather, I stopped participating in environments that promoted intersectionality yet failed to center women who exist in the intersection of gender and race.

“I can’t figure out the difference.”

The difference from intersectional feminism and adopting a Black feminist agenda is this: intersectional feminism is an analytical framework. It’s used to break down, to understand, and to create a path of understanding the uniqueness of women who exist in Black skin. Adopting a Black feminist agenda is to actively center Black women in organizations, groups, and environments where the standard white-centered form of feminism existed. It is to make the crises and challenges faced by Black women (such as the ones listed in the above piece) and make that a top priority.