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Frances Beale writes about "Double Jeopardy" in the 1900s and describe it as the struggle for a black woman being just that "Black and a woman". They often preformed the same work, yet receive lesser pair; after work they attend to the house and their children while the man do what he wanted. She blames capitalism for "Double Jeopardy" , which forced women into the workforce and "made it impossible for men to be the only breadwinners". She demonstrated how was difficult to even come close this sort of lifestyle like the cult of womanhood. She know that Black women are going through injustice and have to sometimes be the maid to a white woman or a wet nurse to white children during the day while their {black woman's}children are "starving and neglected". She blames capitalism for the suffering of men as "the cruelest assault on mankind". She feels that because of capitalism men were not able to protect their women. As i read this i remember reading about Fannie Lou Townsend's (maiden name) grandmother who had thirteen children and many of her children had green and blue eyes and i could just imagine the animosity black men had towards white men. Black men were damaged mentally by those incidents; it reduced the black man. What stuck out to me is the quote that says " Certain black men are maintaining that they have been castrated by society but that black women somehow escaped this persecution and even contributed to this emasculation." Yes i agree with the first part but women were not the reason but capitalism was. I feel if black men were paid as high as black women then they would have to work during this time.
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