From bell hooks’ Killing Rage: Ending Racism (NA/Asian/black/Latino substituted for black):

Concurrently, the negative consequences of sexist NA/Asian/black/Latino male domination will remain a taboo subject. Those of us who break the silence will be continually cast as traitors. Until this silence is repeatedly broken, NA/Asian/black/Latino will never be able to constructively address issues of positive gender identity formation, domestic violence, rape, incest, or NA/Asian/black/Latino male-on-male violence. We will not be able to challenge and critique sexism if the destructive impact of patriarchal thinking is always denied, covered up, masked as a response to racial victimization.

Individual, progressive NA/Asian/black/Latino heterosexual males who engage a critique of domination that takes feminist thinking and practice seriously as a radical alternative to the push to institutionalize potentially exploitative and oppressive patriarchal regimes in NA/Asian/black/Latino life must be more willing to act politically so that their counter hegemonic presence is visible. Working in collective solidarity with NA/Asian/black/Latino women who are active in progressive movements for NA/Asian/black/Latino self-determination that incorporate fully a feminist standpoint, these NA/Asian/black/Latino men represent a vanguard group that could begin and sustain a cultural revolution that could vigilantly contest, challenge, and change sexism and misogyny in NA/Asian/black/Latino life.

Ultimately, sexist aggression by NA/Asian/black/Latino males towards NA/Asian/black/Latino females creates a cultural climate in NA/Asian/black/Latino life where gender wars and conflicts claim the attention and energy that could be constructively used to create strategies for radical intervention that would challenge and undermine the existing racist and sexist systems of domination. As long as the vast majority of NA/Asian/black/Latino males are brainwashed into thinking that sexist thinking enhances their lives, white patriarchy need never fear being dismantled by progressive NA/Asian/black/Latino male insurrection.

We need to hear from NA/Asian/black/Latino males who have turned their gaze away from the colonizer’s face and are able to look at gender and race with new eyes.