I read the whole sad article.....Alice Walker is one miserable person, in the mold of a stand up comic.
That explains a lot about The Color Purple.
Alice Walker has always been one of the most hateful, bitter, vitriolic and downright mean people in the public eye.
Her bizarre “they’re censoring me!” rant when one of her books was removed from a California school district’s required reading list a few years back says all you need to know about this insufferable twit.
And this poor kid had to have her as a mother.
Well of course it is. So is fatherhood, husbandhood and wifehood. In fact, so is being a friend, a co-worker an employee and practically every other human relationship.
We should serve everyone we have a relationship with in a manner appropriate to the relationship. And that service should be joyful (although that is an ideal I often do not achieve). You can't just take from relationships or not have them. God didn't make us that way. You end up an ugly feminist or misogynist or whatever if you don't have a clue about this.
Rebecca Walker echoes a feeling I’ve had for a long time about many radical feminists. Most of them, like Alice Walker, are selfish jerks who are only interested in their own careers. Furthermore they’re contemptible hypocrites who espouse Marxism while living the capitalist highlife. A plague on all of them.
The daughter is lucky that abortions were not easliy done back then. Her Mother would have terminated her for sure.
Good thing Rebecca had a step mom to provide a positive role model.
I saw what you endured in the families around me when I was growing up. I became that traditional mother my children needed. They are grown now, and we are yet so very close. My decision to be that traditional mother was met with heavy and very verbal disapproval by family and friends in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The proofs are in my pudding: My children are grown and grown so fine and well and whole and happy. My grandchildren couldn't be better nor happier and thriving.
Because of my decision, my children grew up seeing all the GOOD opportunities around them; it never ocurred to partake of "opportunities" which would or might cause them harm.
From one sister to another: Thank you for being strong and independent. Yes, this strife with your mother hurts. It will continue to hurt; but it will dull in time and with time.
Your child will sing your praises, and his children will sing your praises.
Stay strong!
...Alia
I love you Mom.