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Susan B Anthony was a bad person. She didn't fight for "women's right to vote " She fought for "*White* women's right to vote." It would be one thing if she just didn't focus on Black folks' right to vote, but she actively worked against it. As hard as she fought for White women to get to vote, she actively campaigned against the Black vote and constructed a coalition of racists to keep Black feminists out, and hold Black voters back.

She was a white supremacist. White supremacists are bad

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Susan B Anthony was the first in a long line of "white feminists" who work against their own interests by refusing to ally with Black women. They take precious time out from ending their own oppression, to heap more oppression onto Black women🙂🙃

Susan B Anthony is closer to Margarie Taylor Green than to Elizabeth Warren. She would almost certainly be a Trump voter.

It's Nov 5th, 2024. If the majority of white women vote with Black women today, it would be the 1st time in almost 100 years.

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So much is silly about this.

1) There are people reading this that are mad at me for saying it, but are not mad about it being true.🤷🏿‍♂️

2) If more than half of all white women voters didn't spend the past *checks notes* forever, voting against all other women, we would have much faster progress on gender equality.

Y'all need to get over being mad at Black people for saying this. Seriously. You've had enough time. Process it and get over it. Then be better tomorrow.

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@tarheel @mekkaokereke
I doubt she would have voted for Trump, but she definitely saw the expansion of voting rights as a zero-sum game and was willing to climb on the backs of black women and other minorities if it meant getting white women the vote.

@forpeterssake @tarheel @mekkaokereke I'm not saying you're wrong. There may be a more useful way to look at this, though. Women's suffrage may never have been a thing if she hadn't been able to get the racists on board with it. The thing about power is you can't get it without touching it and not making it recoil.

I don't have a good answer. Fighting for peace doesn't make sense, either.

@janisf @forpeterssake @tarheel

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"There may be a more useful way to look at this, though."

There's not. How you look at it is not more useful than how I look at it.🤷🏿‍♂️

"Women's suffrage may never have been a thing if she hadn't been able to get the racists on board with it."

That's a lie that white women love to tell themselves. Like Ida B Wells and Frederick Douglass didn't exist. Like there weren't *millions* of non-racist suffrage supporters.

"I don't have a good answer."

Well I do.

@mekkaokereke @forpeterssake @tarheel Glad you're smarter than I am. Have fun with that.

The dicey fight and delicate balance continues. Feminism, racism, gender discrimination, poverty, star-bellied or not. Scared people will find a way to try to hoard power, and it will always be one of the most difficult things to do to look in the mirror and ask yourself if you're hoarding it, needlessly giving it up, or using it for yourself, someone else, or mindlessly.

Eager to see where you lead.

mekka okereke :verified:

@janisf @forpeterssake @tarheel

I'm not smarter than you. I'm just less racist, and don't get all snarky and fragile when Black people point out that yes, racist white women are racist. And yes, it is fun! You should try it!

The balance isn't delicate. At all.

And no, you're not eager to see where I lead, so don't say that you are. You're not ready to follow the lead of any Black people. You're not even comfortable acknowledging racism from 100+ years ago!

Come back when you're ready.