WASINGTON, D.C. – The intense focus on “white privilege” that has permeated public schools and college campuses across the country is now fracturing the supposed solidarity among women on the far left.

The evidence of the emerging fault line surfaced most recently in a Monday New York Times article about a progressive Women’s March scheduled at the Capitol for the day after President-elect Donald Trump’s swearing in ceremony next week.

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It centers in part on Jennifer Willis, a white wedding minister in South Carolina who had been looking forward to attending the event with her daughters until 27-year-old Brooklyn blogger ShiShi Rose chastised white liberal women across the country, many of whom viewed themselves as allies in a quest for a more racially harmonious America.

Today’s #ActivistAday features myself, ShiShi Rose (@shishi.rose) and I am one of the admins here. . For some people, their outlook of this country deeply changed on November 9th. For the rest of us, this is how it has always looked. I want to remind you that that is a privilege. It’s a privilege that white supremacy wasn’t at the forefront of your reality, because you benefit from it. I want to remind you that no ally ever got very far, in any movement, without acknowledgement of their own privilege daily. You do not just get to join the efforts that people of color have been working for their entire lives to both teach and survive, without doing work, too. You don’t just get to join because now you’re scared, too. I was born scared. Now is the time for you to be listening more, talking less, spend time observing, taking in media and art created by people of color, researching, and unlearning the things you have been taught about this country. You should be reading our books and understanding the roots of racism and white supremacy. Listening to our speeches. You should be drowning yourselves in our poetry. Now is the time that you should be exposed to more than just the horrors of this country, but also the beauty that has always existed within communities of color. Beauty that was covered over because the need to see white faces depicted was more important. Now is the time to teach your children, to call out your family, to finally speak up. You have been silent for long enough. Now is the time to realize that you should have joined us sooner. But since you’re here now, it’s time to get to work. #WhyIMarch

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In a recent self-righteous Instagram post titled “White Allies Read Below,” Rose opted to alienate millions of white women who identify with the supposed plight of blacks suffering from unbearable “white privilege,” a concept that’s accepted by many of them as an important cultural problem in the U.S.

“For some people, their outlook of this country deeply changed on November 9th. For the rest of us, this is how it has always looked,” Rose wrote. “I want to remind you that that is a privilege.

“It’s a privilege that white supremacy wasn’t at the forefront of your reality, because you benefit from it.”

She continued:

I want to remind you that no ally ever got very far, in any movement, without acknowledgement of their own privilege daily. You do not just get to join the efforts that people of color have been working for their entire lives to both teach and survive, without doing work, too. You don’t just get to join because now you’re scared, too. I was born scared.

Now is the time for you to be listening more, talking less, spend time observing, taking in media and art created by people of color, researching, and unlearning the things you have been taught about this country. You should be reading our books and understanding the roots of racism and white supremacy. Listening to our speeches. You should be drowning yourselves in our poetry. Now is the time that you should be exposed to more than just the horrors of this country, but also the beauty that has always existed within communities of color. Beauty that was covered over because the need to see white faces depicted was more important.

Now is the time to teach your children, to call out your family, to finally speak up. You have been silent for long enough. Now is the time to realize that you should have joined us sooner. But since you’re here now, it’s time to get to work.

Willis told the Times Rose’s comments convinced her to cancel her plans to attend the Women’s March. And similar fractions among progressive women in other states and online are producing the same result.

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“This is a women’s march,” said Willis, who said she’s often ridiculed for officiating same sex marriages in South Carolina. “We’re supposed to be allies in equal pay, marriage, adoption. Why is it now about, ‘White women don’t understand black women’?”

“How do you know that I’m not reading black poetry?” she said. “The last thing that is going to make me endeared to you, to know you and love you more, is if you are sitting there wagging your finger at me.”

According to the Times, “long before the first buses roll to Washington and sister demonstrations take place in other cities, contentious conversations about race have erupted nearly every day among marchers, exhilarating some and alienating others.”

Infighting is breaking out in Tennessee, Louisiana, and other places, as well, including heated debates on social media.

Black feminist Bell Hooks, for example, posted to Facebook that the march and uncomfortable conversations about race it’s sparked will tighten the bond between white and minority women by “confronting the ways women – through sex, class and race – dominated and exploited other women,” according to the Times.

“I’m starting to feel not very welcome at this endeavor,” a New Jersey women responded.

Others took offense at the notion that white women rape victims and others in similar circumstances should “check their privilege,” while still others aimed to tamp down the rift.

“I will march,” another woman posted to Facebook, “Hoping that someday soon a sense of unity will occur before it’s too late.”

Gloria Steinem, a white elderly feminist who rose to fame in the 1970s after penning an article titled “After Black Power, Women’s Liberation,” is co-chairing the Women’s March with Harry Belafonte, the so-called “King of Calypso” who was active in the Civil Rights Movement.

Steinem insisted the internal strife plaguing the march is by design, and told the Times it will only strengthen the aim of bringing those on both sides of the divide closer together.

“Sexism is always made worse by racism – and vice versa,” she wrote in an email to the news site.

“It’s about knowing each other,” she claims. “Which is what movements and marches are for.”