Chimamanda Adichie explains why she is angry about sexism than racism

Chimamanda Adichie explains why she is angry about sexism than racism

Nigerian female writer and feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was at Esquire Townhouse with Breitling for an interview. Speaking on a wide range of topics, the writer was channeled to talk about the reason why she said she is angry about sexism than racism.

Her reply went thus:

“I said that because in my own very personal space, the people I love, the people I’m close to, my family, my friends all get race. So, I’ve never with them had to make a case for why something was racist.

So, I’m in my circle of friends – White people, Black people, Asian people, Hispanic people, and something happens to do with blackness and immediately we all get it.

But with gender, I find, that with the people I love, I’m constantly being expected to make the case – the ways in which women are reduced, the ways in which authority in a woman is judged much more differently than authority in a man. And I find I’m constantly being asked by the people that I love so I’m not talking about the sort of, you know, anonymous people to make that case. And it gets emotionally exhausting because I don’t feel that I have the kind of effortless support that I have when I talk about race.

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