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your favored commenters like Donna Darko and Ginmar
I'm not favored. I just comment a lot. :) Ginmar doesn't post at Feministing.
Trina Trent, there have been many individuals in the second and third wave who weren't classist and racist but overall feminism in the US has been very classist and racist. It's hard to see these things when if you're white. It's not just who shows up at meetings. They have to be inclusive in practice and theory to retain nonwhite women.