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August 26, 2005
Nineteen, Twenty
Far be it from me to go without at least briefly acknowledging the 85th anniversary of one of the most positively progressive changes this nation has seen.
Since I was born in the late 1960s, it's hard for me to imagine a lack of voting rights for anyone, but I can appreciate the women's suffrage movement by hypothesizing about the lack thereof. I just had dinner with the wife, her very pregnant sister and their very pregnant cousin. You mean to tell me that the very segment of the population who carries each one of us for a number of quite less than comfortable months inside their bodies, then agonizingly delivers us into the world, was not [and in some places, yet, is not] able to have a say in government?
It is difficult for me to think about our nominally being a "democratic republic" for so many years with the votes cast by only white men. Those who resist forward change today would do well to look back and realize exactly the kind of repression they're fighting to keep.
The scary part is, some of them do realize it, and fight for it anyway.
Government | By joe lance | 09:18 PM