In Kate Weigand’s book Red Feminism, she tells a fascinating story about Black women who participated in the Communist Party (CP) in the 1930s. In 1934, Black women organizers asked the Party leadership to outlaw interracial marriages among members. Many of the Black men had married or begun dating white women, but white men weren’t showing comparable interest in dating or marrying Black women. The Party’s leadership appointed Abner Berry, a Black party leader who was married to a white woman, to deal with the crisis. In typical Black-man fashion, he called Black women’s demands to outlaw
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