Analysis Of My Response To Racism Is Anger By Audre Lorde

After reading this passage wonderfully written by Audre Lorde, I believe it's about two things. Racism. The belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and thereby the right to dominance, manifest and implied, and also how women respond to racism, in which she defines her response as " My response to racism is anger."

I believe this passage was written overall to help all women obtain an understanding of each other's anger fueled by all forms of racism, whether it's skin color difference, or sexual preference. However, I believe that it focus on the anger of colored woman because that anger is so easily fueled and misunderstood when it comes to racism. For example, when Audre discuss the interchanges of women, she explains

In that moment, Audre have to question the reasoning for that statement, is it her manner?, or the threat of a life changing massage that keeps the white woman from hearing her? Also, when she explains about how a white academic welcomes a collection of non-colored women and one of the women says “It allows me to deal with racism without dealing with the harshness of Black women," clearly excluding any other option on how to deal with the "harshness of Black women" and understanding their anger from racism. Ms. Lorde also touch on the topic of generation racism when she explains how a colored woman is shopping in a super market in 1967 with her 2 year old child in the cart and a white mother and daughter passes them and the daughter says excitedly, “Oh look, Mommy, a baby maid!” the mom tells the daughter to

The part of this passage that really grasped my attention though, was the topics of mainstream communities not wanting women (white women particularly) to respond to racism, and how most women haven't developed the tools to deal with anger constructively. According to the passage, mainstream communities wants racism to be immutable and viewed as something ordinary like a common cold, which put us in the context of opposition and threat that causes hatred against all women, people of color, lesbians, gay men, and poor people. For women who haven't developed the tools to deal with anger, there were previous CR groups (which were largely white) that dealt with how to express anger. However, it was usually at the world of men and there were little attempts to articulate the genuine differences between women such as those of race, age, color, class, and sexual identity, which I believe it's part of the reason why we face some issues we do up to date. The most intriguing part of the passage is when Audre speaks of