Better yet, we must quit settling for one when what we really need is the other. Empowerment and power are not the same thing. Why? Have you ever noticed that people who have real “power”-wealth, job security, influence-don’t attend “empowerment” seminars? Power is not attained from books and seminars. Explain what her experience was and how she reacted to it. Did we have enough drive? Enough vision? Enough hustle to change our condition? The politics of personal empowerment suggests to us that if we simply “free our minds, then our asses will follow.” I’m not convinced that this is true. In Eloquent Rage, Cooper deftly sifts through many of the emotional complexities and challenges of modern black womenand our mothers, and their mothersusing a deeply insightful and intimate. In Coopers chapter of Eloquent rage, Brittney Cooper discusses white fear and her experience within academia. It tells us that in a free market, devoid of any regulation or accountability at the top, what happens to those on the bottom is entirely our fault. Neoliberalism is endlessly concerned with “personal responsibility” and individual self-regulation. It’s also a decidedly neoliberal word that places the responsibility for combating systems on individuals.
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