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So that question of 'man and woman' is no big thing. But if you're living in a place like England then you're reminded of it, but you don't have to toe the line. I don't think a lot of black women are worried about it, whether the man is living with them or not.
Q- What about the way a man actually treats his woman when he is around? M- Well it depends on the type of relationship doesn't it? If you expect it to be a certain pattern and it's not fitting into that pattern then you complain about it don't you? 2-But even though the women might be more independent, the men are just as sexist?
M-Oh yes, chauvinist/yes. 0- They still treat women as inferior even though they've proved they're M-Yeah. All that is there, that is the sort of area where all the women's groups, the women's liberation movement will have to lead, when it comes to that sort of chauvinism in mennot the protection of the family set up or your right to decide what you're going to do with your life, say after your marriage breaks up.
Because a high percentage of black women are not married, they're not living with a man-and they manage. Q-If we're talking about the women's movement, so far it's been mainly white, middle class, young, single women who realise they're oppressed by men, and it's involved a process of consciousness raising.
K-What's that? great depth. If you've got kids in trouble then that's obviously a priority. But there are other problems faced by working class women other than their kids-housing for M-But we aren't talking about the whole working class, but about blacks within the working class-who have taken shitty jobs, shitty type of housing, survived in it, and have brought their kids up in it, hoping that the kids will get better jobs, will get out of the ghetto. Maybe at one time they would have gone home, rgired home. But to any black woman who has brought up her kids on her own, in a society which sees family structure as the most important thing-you really want to get up and do someshing when things get heavy on them. when their future is being destroyed. -They put their hopes in their kids rather than in their own lives? M-Yes. But it's not that they've given up. But the thing is, when the kids are littler, they cannot choose, And you have dreams for them and when you sit back and watch that dream smashed, you've got to do something about it. That doesn't mean that the UBWAG only does things round Katya Frischauer kids. But that is an area we spend a PEOP WESTINEIAN AR FYN STRE