A feminist author describes the charges of racism against an abortion clinic she observed at:
“Like many feminist organizations founded by white women, the center faces charges of institutional racism leveled by women of color working in the organization. Black (and sometimes white) workers said that racism had always been a problem, that when black women entered into a white power structure from the bottom (as they did the center, as health workers or low-level administrative workers), clashes between black and white staff members were inevitable. In other words, white women tended to re-create covert power dynamics similar to those they profess to despise, treating black women in a manner comparable to the sexist treatment of women by men.”
Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996) 170
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