It is a lie that women have been able to vote since 1920.
White women have been able to vote since 1920. All Native American women couldn’t vote until 1924. All Asian women couldn’t vote until 1952. All Black women couldn’t vote until 1964.
In five years there is probably going to be some big centennial celebration of women’s suffrage. But that will be a whitewashing of history. It will be an event that erases the struggles of non-white women. It will be an event that will try to hide the fact that white feminists heros like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton actively argued against the rights of people of color in order to advance their own goals.
On Wednesday, April 1st, 2015, i scheduled this post to reblog five years later, on August 18, 2020, as this is the exact anniversary of the ratification of the women's suffrage amendment. This is a forceful reminder that this centennial celebration is a whitewashed lie, and I only hope that now, five years later, more people will recognize these types of hard truths.
