Melissa Harris-Lacewell, a professor at Princeton, went all Tracy Morgan/Jordan this morning at The Root, dropping a truth bomb of an essay in which she rails against the reductive analysis of the African-American women’s vote on Super Tuesday, where pundits simply claimed that for black women “race trumped gender.” In attacking that assessment, Harris-Lacewell does something no one writing for the mainstream media is ever supposed to do: she brings an historical awareness to the question, and an awareness that ain’t that pretty at all.
“Throughout history, privileged white women, attached at the hip to their husband’s power and influence, have been complicit in black women’s oppression. Many African-American women are simply refusing to play Mammy to Hillary.”
We’ve excerpted more choice bits at length after the jump.