African American Liberation

African Americans have been considered to be less important in the United States for centuries know, and we still to this day experience some form of  being unequal to other races. Race, class, and gender have been central to theorizing African American liberation because these are the three things that were to be  considered in order for a person to be considered worthy enough to have a fighting chance in life, to have the opportunity to have success to be of equal. African Americans were not to have any say on anything, education, government, work, not even their own life to be more frank. Since African Americans were sold to whites to take care of their labor, housework, children and everything else the mind set of America was that people with colored skin were to be used for whatever they wanted to use them for and the best part for them was that they didn't have to do anything in return for them but give them shelter, no pay, not even food to eat, and what's most crazy to me is that they were the ones harvesting and preparing the food that was being consumed by the whites. So, this is how race played apart in African American Liberation. Class that's a joke African Americans weren't even considered citizens, so how could they be categorized into a class, and when they were granted freedom in America African Americans were placed into the lower class of society just to say okay the government has given you something but you still won't equal to whites we still will have the control over African Americans. Gender has been because women were looked at as being nothing but good for having and rising children, cooking, and cleaning, America felt that no education was needed for that. Martin Delany couldn't have said it better he said "let our young women have an education.....Our females must be qualified, because they are to be the mothers of our children". Women finally began to get tried of working in the cotton field and began to find a voice for themselves which began the race-class based feminism. Women are just as much qualified as men if not more, that is why today we see more women rising to the top and being self-sufficient,because women are the back bone of America, without  woman it wouldn't be educated men to hold the oppositions they hold. Women have been leaders in this way of theorizing because African American women are the foundation, women are the child barriers, educators, nutritionist, and fathers just to name a few. This is how women have helped to pave the way for liberation. Why do we have so many powerful black men today? Because behind every black man is a great woman, look at First Lady Michelle Obama and President Baraka Obama need I say more.