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[existentialist]

after all, blacks got the vote how many years before women?

Something like 60 years before . . .

And, the same movement that freed the slaves worked hand in glove with a nascent women's rights movement until blacks actually were freed, and, at least nominally got the vote.

A deeper look, however, indicates that the two movements both prosper from alliance with the other.

The blacks may nominally have received the vote in the 1860s, but in practice they got very little until the 1960s.

It is unfortunate that the immediate election context has come to pit one against the other.

I think anyone who sets one against the other is in fact working against human rights, and hence against the rights of women, blacks, and all minorities.