Racism in Feminism

This is a topic that I have recently found out about and I can't decide to be horrified by the sheer irony of this situation or really just not me surprised at all. It is laughable that feminism has constantly been equated to racism (Loko Ono's famous quote, "woman is nigger of the world"yet it exists within that very movement. It is interesting how racism can pop up it's head just about anywhere and it dates back to the very inception of the feminist movement. Sojourner Truth gave a rousing speech at Seneca Falls that fell upon deaf ears.

And I call it racism using Tatum's definition of the word, because the first two waves were not interested in lobbying for the rights of all women, just the the white-middle class. But the blame lies not only with the current members of the movement, but additionally minority women have been slow to join because as Paulin Terrelonge Stone writes in "Feminist Consciousness and Black Women": 

Ethnocentrism and racism is seen in many a classic feminist work like, "The Second Sex", by Simone de Beauvoir also relies this master/slave dialogue, invoking the holy and almighty Hegel. And in characterizing slavery and its parallels to the feminist movement, de Beauvoir fails to connect with any sort of minority audience and connect the respective women's experience with sexism. Although, one could also make the argument, that in 1948, how many colored woman would have the education or socio-economic status to access such a text.

Anyways, I don't think I have anything else intelligent to add at this point I just wanted to call attention to this interesting perspective on feminism. In closing I would like to add that this lack of diversity still exists today, and just take a look the recent "slut walks".