Someone’s snapshot post that really stood out for me was Junie Vallon’s snapshot post. I think Junie’s post really stood out because we talked or learned about women’s suffrage, which is the right for women to vote in any election. In the snapshot, there are women, specifically white women standing up for their state of being free from authoritative restrictions such as the president. The poster the woman is holding says, “Mr. President, How long must women wait for liberty?” For me, women’s suffrage should include every aspect of women, whether white, African American, Native American, Asian, or Latino, yet this image gives a false narrative. It promotes just white women fighting for their rights to end their feeling of inferiority, and what about the people of color? It is like white women advocate for themselves to vote while others have to do the same for their own skin complexion. It questions the idea of why women’s suffrage wasn’t universal.
It’s important to be able to promote women’s suffrage, including everyone. Association and organizations for women’s suffrage should be continuously dedicated to women of any skin complexion, for white and black women. It goes back to the idea of privilege. I’m not saying white women don’t have it hard compared to women of color. Still, women of color suffered more because of racism, apart from their education and economic status. Women of color should be able to support women of color and white women and vice versa. Women and men should support women, isn’t that the idea of being a feminist.
A piece of evidence that supports my idea in the paragraph above is from the text “One Hundred Years Towards Suffrage: An Overview.” According to the text “Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the American Equal Rights Association, an organization for white and black women and men dedicated to the goal of universal suffrage.” Of course, these two women were part of painting the path towards the 19th amendment, but they stood for universal suffrage. Even though the 15th amendment allowed men of all races to vote, it still presented some form of hostility or some form of resistance because of education. African Americans were held as slaves until 1865-1870. These men had the lower end of the stick when it came to the idea of voting because of certain tactics that prevented men from still voting.
There was still a continuous fight for voting rights even after the nineteenth amendment was ratified. There was still continuous development that needed to be made to get resources for everyone, especially the colored communities. Whether a black woman coming into politics or a white woman, they should be approached as an “us,” not breaking apart every skin complexion. Being able to be consistent with the power of bringing in and supporting different cultural and ethnic groups. It is important to redirect different areas of problems just not for one group but multiple groups. It should be universal.
