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A lot of people know that I haven’t been an ardent support of Barack Obama. I am supporting him now, but I have been very critical along the way. That said, I feel I was brought closer to his side by the way the crazy white feminists at OurChart keep going on about him and Hillary.

I am writing the following letter to the makers of OurChart because it’s gotten to a pretty disgusting stage. I recommend other queer ladies also write in to them.

“I am sick of being Black woman in this community”

I think that this entry: http://www.ourchart.com/node/319984 is the last straw for me.

I am really tired of being a Black woman on this site. I’ve seen discussions where people talk about how much worse sexism is than racism. What the fuck do white women know about this?

I am not the sort of person to normally write in to a website like this. But this is incredibly upsetting for me. I come to OurChart for news about the L word. I like the idea of being part of an online lesbian community. But this isn’t an open community. This is an exclusive community that seems to be primarily for white lesbians/bigirls who subscribe to a particular brand of feminism.

Frankly, this brand of feminism makes me want to throw up. What kind of feminist whole heartedly supports a woman who willingly dropped bombs on innocent women and children because George Bush, the mighty election stealer and tremendous liar, said to take his word for it? Really? Either Hillary was lying about being lied to, or she’s just plain stupid.

So, I find it aggravating when I see post after post talking about how a vote for her is a vote for Black women. Let us speak for ourselves. I’ll tell you as a Black woman that a vote for Hillary is a vote against me. It’s a vote against what I stand for, and it’s a vote against women of colour in Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s a vote for the woman who supported welfare to work while her partner was in office, which disproportionately affected my community. While the women went back to “real” jobs making minimum wage without health insurance, what happened to the kids? I’m an educator, and any of us can tell you what happens to those kids. A vote for Hillary is a vote for a grotesque kind of feminism that doesn’t respect women who choose to stay home as caregivers.

I realize that OurChart is hoping to support freedom of speech and freedom of discourse. But it’s obvious that those of us on OurChart who aren’t subscribing to mainstream white feminism will have to fight to be heard. And frankly, your website isn’t worth it. From now on, I’m going to watch advance episodes on YouTube or from some other source. I have no interest in supporting a website that is so alienating, segregated, and in the end, functionally racist.