(ThyBlackMan.com) “With great power comes great responsibility.” The famous line from Uncle Ben…no not the Uncle Ben on the cover of the famous orange rice box. Uncle Ben from the Spider-Man movies. The Uncle Ben who fathered Peter Parker and gave him the wisest knowledge he would have ever received during his transition into his newfound power.
Similarly, the power of the black presence within anything has been undeniable; from mathematics, technology, ancient civilizations, entertainment and even serving as a helping hand in the most oppressed people on the planet; one of them being the woman and the feminist movement. In the late 1840’s the United States received its first wave, of prominent individuals who vocalized the 
issues of oppression of women. These women being Abigail Adams and Elizabeth Cady, two white women of British background—as for black women—your place was still wrapped tightly in the shackles of your master. The feminist movement did not begin with you nor did it begin for you.
Not to sing the same song, but lets fast-forward to the 1960’s. Simultaneously the rise to end segregation with the honorable Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the rise of the Black Panther party by Huey P. Newton grew heavily. One man who influenced the power of peaceful marching and another who influenced the power of receiving peace through combative aggression. But beside either one of them were many black men and beside them, black women. The image of black men and women standing together spoke volumes—one, the power of the black family unit and two the necessity of both genders not in competition with one another, but sharing of a common goal to get to the same destination of greater freedom.
Fast-forward 40 years later into a new millennia and the tug for black women in the feminist movement has grown fiercely. Not only do other liberated groups piggyback on the struggles of the black population, but they call for your presence to validate their issues.
The dangers of black women in the feminist movement are not only accepting the separation of black men. But has purposefully rejected the black male presence in many forms. Such as the household, another financial support system, even for procreation; famously known as “I don’t need a man” syndrome. In all actuality, YOU DO and outside of pretending you don’t need one…naturally, you want one.
The feminist movement is working against the black woman’s favor, because as they preach the useless presence of the male; white feminist go back to their husbands and their whole homes while yours remain broken.
When was the last time the feminist movement fought for your standards of beauty in the media, for police brutality, for unjust incarceration, for black women’s health and healthcare, for the high rates of black students being criminalized in school but being a minimal fraction of the school’s population?
How does any black person fight for anyone else when every time you yell the words “black lives matter” they have a rebuttal for all lives mattering? And although that is true; the western system and society has always shown you that you didn’t, and have chosen to shame you any time you decide to tell yourself that you do.
What if I told you black woman, you may be a pawn in your own oppression by joining a force that influences you to pull away from black men, as the government helps pull them out of the home, pull them into prisons and caskets too. These black men are your fathers, your brothers, and your future sons.
What if I told you, black woman you have a double-edged sword not only for sexism but racism as well? That it is enormously dangerous to stand with a movement that will not move for YOU.
What if I told you black woman that you include yourself in a movement that is dominated by people who do not look like you, cant understand, cant comprehend or even relate to your oppression?
Although you have been cursed with a double-edged sword throughout history you recognized that racism was a priority. And still black woman, you use your power, influence and strength to benefit the whole and not the fraction. So black woman what if I told you, although you may be the least valued person on the planet…you are and forever will be the most valuable.
Staff Writer; Zanzibar Jones