Cade vs. D'Amico

It was interesting to read Toni Cade's Preface right next to Debby D'Amico's To My White Working-Class Sisters.

Both wrote of working women, but the contrast and similarities were so interesting that I wonder how a conversation between the two would end.

At first, when reading Cade's piece, I was thinking why does she want such a separation and distinction amongst the black women? I felt that she was going against the long struggle for equality. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been fighting so hard for the equality of human beings. But after reading D'amico's, I got the sense that Cade may have been arguing against the melting pot of assimilation, and pushing for maintaining one's identity, and was not necessarily trying to say that people were unequal.