Time has a history, and so do black people. So, in the 1700s and 1800s, various groups of white European men got together and just decided that Africa didn’t matter in the span of world history. And there’s a way that, even if you go back to the early Western philosophers that everybody loved - my least favorite is Georg Hegel, who said, you know, Africa is no historic part of the world. White people feel like they own time and control history. But I think that being both those things is the thing that will save us. I’m unapologetically black, and I’m unapologetically a feminist.Īnd, look, depending on what circles you’re in, it’s hard to be both those things at the same time. She calls on us to look at the past during this Black History Month and recognize change shouldn’t always be gradual.Ĭooper recently came out with a new book, “Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower.”īrittney Cooper: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower: I’m a black feminist, capital B, capital F. In tonight’s Brief But Spectacular, we hear from cultural theorist, author and professor Brittney Cooper. Judy Woodruff: Questions of race and power are obviously not limited to the movies.
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