Black Rats

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“... contemporary black women felt they were asked to choose between a black movement that primarily served the interests of black male patriarchs and a women’s movement which primarily served the interests of racist white women.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

“When the cat’s away, the rats dance on the table.”
—Swedish proverb, trans. by Verne Moberg.