Bell Hooks

She is proud to look to herself as grim woman intellectual, revolutionary activist. Not a stigma revolutionary, who wields the gun, nonwithstanding an individual who sits across the table with paper and create verbally to kindle intellectual revolution Bell Hooks belongs to the later class and she has proved how indeed the pen is mightier than the sword. She has thrown light on many another(prenominal) forms of racialism, open and with a hidden agenda. For the prevailing, pathetic conditions of the mordant Wo custody, she does not tear the neat supremacist capitalist patriarchy alone.She takes the cudgels against the sinister liberation struggle and the mainstream wo handss rightist movement. She is aware of the strength of her opinions and has succeeded in creating the impact by using the electronic mediashe has appeared on televisions, participated in the radio programs. She is interested in interacting with the intellectual class, but she is highly concerned to reach the common man. Therefore she says, We are spirit at a finishing where millions of people dont skim or write. She has thankfully used the mass media for propagating what she believed to be the truth, at the homogeneous time she has not spare partd it, for the dubious billets they play in many situations to assist racism and sexism. Growth-the socio-spiritual Bell Hook She imbibed the poets rootlism by extensively reading poets like William Wordsworth, Langston Hughes, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Gwendolyn Brooks, right from childhood. The fervor and emotions in her talks and penning may be due to the benevolent influence of the literature of such poets.Each and every molecule of her body and spirit seems to have been surcharged with idealism. This apart, the practical, hard experiences of her purport have made her a die-hard realist. She wrote in Sisters of the Yam that life-time in her community involved an ever-present and deep meshing with the hidden dimensio ns of Christian faith and that, despite the sexism of that segregated Black world, the world of spiritism was one where Black women teachers, preachers, and healers worked with as much skill, power, and second sight as their Black male comrades. ( member, Black. )Bell Hooks is an original thinker and she is ordain to challenge any set-up that gives the secondary status to the Black Women. She doesnt compliments the obtuse women to be followers, howsoever bright may be their ideas for emancipation of the women. She wishes barren women to be first among the equals. She is ever ready to fight false representations. She emphasizes how break away and class play as big as a role as genderand vividly draws picture of the subordination of poor and non-white women. To plead her points, she takes the case-studies from the most unexpected place-her own personal experiences and examples.She knows how bitter the bark is, because she has been compelled to ballyhoo its juice Her main grouse and concern is around the fear of the black people. The psychological suffering of the black people is more important for her than their scotch plight. Are the Blacks inferiors to the white people? Such a dangerous and injure thinking regarding the Blacks, deeply worries her to the core. She wishes for a social response from the whites, where one good deal feel the genuine changes in their thought process. lone(prenominal) when their thoughts are changed, their minds will change. When the minds change, the men will change. When men change, the society also changes. When society changes for the better, one mint expect the genuine, humane changes in America, as for relationship between Whites and Blacks. Black women have often turned to drugs and alcohol rather than acknowledge their essential for viable support systems. . When wounded individuals come together in groups to mystify change, our collective struggle is often undermined by all that has not been dealt with emotiona lly.(Article, Black) Here, Bell Hooks speaks as if she has donned the mantle of a revolutionary exchange union leader barely again she defends her line of action a novel way. She is not happy with the word struggle. She scathe it caring, loving, and flourishing. With such o.k. inspiring expressions, Bell appeals to the head and heart of the Black populace. She proclaims that participation in action with cheer is better than withdrawal and renunciation of action for self-development. My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful.And past I have the usual passions romance, carriageIm a big fashion girl. And Im really into art and deeply into culture. I am passionate about living my life with a certain quality of elegance and grace. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine. That tempers everything else. (Article, Black) She speaks with the authority of a genuine spiritual leader. Only those individuals, who are internally s trong and morally correct, can be that philosophical and practical.She is on the threshold of the mind-barrier and she will experience the divine once she transcends it. She has the makings of an world-wide socio-spiritual leader. Bell Hooks and gangsta smash As for her programs, Bell Hooks is intensely liked or bitterly hated. Having once invited for any lecture engagement/interview, she doesnt get repeat invitations. It is the reward for her bitter criticism of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. She says, To white dominated mass media, the controversy over gangsta rap makes great spectacle.Besides the exploitation of these issues to attract audiences, a central motivation for highlighting gangsta rap continues to be the sensationalist drama of demonizing black youth culture in general and the contributions of young black men in bad-tempered When I counter this deionization of black males by insisting that gangsta rap does not appear in a cultural vacuum, but, rather, is expressive of the cultural crossing, mixings, and engagement of black youth culture with the values, attitudes, and concerns of the white majority, some folks closing listening. (McGee, 1994) Conclusion Bell Hooks speaks with lots of conviction, and says in clear terms what is the mission of her life. She cautions the Black Women and warns about the dangers ahead. She hits out at the black males as well, for their betrayal for the genuine cause of welfare of the black race. She doesnt spare anyone including the Clinton administration, when she says, Feminist critiques of the sexism and misogyny in gangsta rap, and in all aspects of popular culture, mustiness continue to be bold and fierce.Black females must not be duped into load-bearing(a) shit that hurts us under the guise of standing beside our men. If black men are betraying us through acts of male violence, we save ourselves and the race by resisting. Yet, our feminist critiques of black male sexism fail as meaningful poli cy-making intervention if they seek to demonize black males, and do not sleep with that our revolutionary work is to transform white supremacist capitalist patriarchy in the multiple areas of our lives where it is made manifest, whether in gangsta rap, the black church, or the Clinton administration. (Article, 1994) ========= References Cited Article Black woman, Intellectual, Revolutionary Activist-Bell Hooks www. allaboutbell. com 7k McGee, Arthur R. 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