'A hundred years later, we are still fighting the same fights.'

[Joinfortmill]

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-18-2022

'On this day in 1920, the Tennessee legislature ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by the narrow vote of 50 to 49. A mirror of the Fifteenth Amendment protecting the right of Black men to vote, the new amendment read:
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress passed the measure in a special session on June 4, 1919, and Tennessee’s ratification on this day in 1920 made it the law of the land. Twenty-six million American women had the right to vote in the 1920 presidential election...Crucially, as the Black suffragists had known all too well when they found themselves caught between the drives for Black male voting and women’s suffrage, Jim Crow and Juan Crow laws meant that most Black women and women of color would remain unable to vote for another 45 years.

Yesterday the Department of Justice filed a friend of the court brief in the case of League of Women Voters v. Secretary of State of Florida alleging that “in the face of surging turnout in the 2020 election, the Florida Legislature responded by enacting provisions that impose disparate burdens on Black voters” when it imposed new voting restrictions.'

[Heather MC]

2. That's because the Republican party constantly wants to drag us back to slavery

They make us fight the same battles over and over again and it blocks our progress as humans.
The good news is, in 2020 the republicans found out that they have a 7 million vote deficit they must overcome to get back into the White House.

As long as we don't fall for their campaign of voter complacency, and democrats keep participating in strong number. It can be 20/ 30 years before the republicans get back in the White House again unless they cheat. The only way republicans get into the White House is if they manipulate the electoral college

Because the majority of American voters have no desire to ever see another Republican in the White House again.

We must never forget our power We have to vote them out

[ananda]

3. Now it's a question of having our votes count.

For example, my vote for congress hasn't been counted
for years due to gerrymandering.

[jaxexpat]

5. Democrats are learning the hard way that politics is continuous and starts at the local precinct.

Planning and scheduling and organizing must be diligent and perpetually reinvigorated to meet the enemy's challenge. The situation is of "biblical" proportions, practically speaking. Evil never sleeps.

[niyad]

4. And we are getting damned tired. But we will not give up. Would you consider

cross-posting this in Women's Rights And Issues? Thanks in advance.

[Joinfortmill]

6. I just posted it.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. The radicalized Republican party does not want voters interfering with their selections.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

[Saboburns]

8. And we'll be still fighting them 100 years from now.

So learn to keep that left hand up, and always stick and move.

It's going to take us all.

[electric_blue68]

9. Sometimes it still stuns me me how many people are Still so racist, and sexist

😭

I mean, it doesn't easily surprise me in a way bc I've been following this stuff for decades!!!


Maaaaybe bc I live in Blue (in general) 🧡 NYC. And I've never lived in a seriously racist neighborhood. I lived in various amounts of mixed neighborhoods. 👍 So I don't run up against them constantly.

Sexism, though. That's a varied mixed bag. Sigh.

[electric_blue68]

10. I have heard that (in general, not the hardcore) each generation of white kids are less racist.