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lilbijou:tinyattacksquid:acceber74:livingeachdayasitcomes:bitteroreo:peacehon:sixpenceee:Susan B. Anthony’s headstone on November 5th, 2014. If anyone is wondering why people put “I Voted” stickers on her tombstone, it’s because on November 5, 1872, she was fined for trying to vote in the U.S. presidential election, as she was among the loudest voices calling for female suffrage.Reminder that while yay women voting, Susan B. Anthony only wanted white women to vote and was a pretty huge racist who sold out Black folks and specifically Frederick Douglass in order to press her agenda forward. Ex:“The old anti slavery school says women must stand back and wait until the negroes shall be recognized. But we say, if you will not give the whole loaf of suffrage to the entire people, give it to the most intelligent first. If intelligence, justice, and morality are to have precedence in the government, let the question of the woman be brought up first and that of the negro last,”fuck your white feminist faves 2kforever.She died in 1906. Yes she was ahead of her time in terms of feminism and women’s rights, but it was 1906. White people who weren’t racist were an anomaly and we can’t expect people from that time to have the same views as us - they literally didn’t know any better. So please can we appreciate the suffragettes for all the amazing things they did, and stop blaming them for believing things they were taught as factIt’s so weird how she was ALL for universal suffrage, right up until BLACK men were granted the right to vote before WHITE women.  She didn’t care that the “Negro” also included black women when she threw them under the bus in the name of preserving white women’s pedestal in society’s hierarchy.Excuse it all you want.  They chose to be just as racist as white men at at time when actual SOLIDARITY could have sped up the process. White women DECIDED that their rights mattered more than a black person, no matter their gender.    This was definitely not a situation of “not knowing any better.” Sojourner Truth was a black former slave, and a powerful suffragette — and she was friends with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton: not just part of the movement, but playing a major role and spending a lot of time with them.As black voting became a contested issue, though, the white suffragettes literally started using that as a platform for women’s right to vote — along the lines of “You don’t want black people to vote before white women, do you?” And once there was a black right to vote, then it was “You need us, to dilute that black vote.” Sojourner Truth felt she was forced to choose between movements, and finally broke with the women’s suffrage movements entirely because of the racism in their slogans.These weren’t white privileged women who had never met black people and didn’t know any better (bad enough, let’s be clear). Susan B Anthony betrayed her movement and her friendship for the sake of discriminating against black people, and she definitely knew the options that she had.Basically: yes, let’s celebrate women being able to vote, I think we are obviously all for that. But let’s not erase the contributions of black suffragettes, and the racism of white suffragettes, just so that we can feel good about putting stickers on Susan B. Anthony’s gravestone.(x for the basics, read Truth’s autobiography for more)I’m pissed as fuck that Susan b Anthony is taught to little black and brown girls everywhere in the country but they never tell us this -- source link

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