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I get shocked all over again when encountering how women are still viewed in the United States [and around the world], as well as people of color. Suffragists tabled campaign for women's rights just before the Civil War in order to align with abolitionists who worked to end slavery. I think Frederick Douglass was also a feminist. That was a powerful alliance! And it is surely true that the darkness of some hearts makes it necessary for us to fight on again and again. This is a tragic time in U.S. history. One would hope the Judiciary all the way up to the Supreme Court would have the people, their rights, and the health of the land foremost in their mind. We are losing ground. The Supreme Court and the Right Wing are a cult. Yes, it is a tragic time in the USA.
Idk, I think that Anglo-European society in general considered women and minorities to be second class citizens. People seem to forget that European nations didn’t make slavery illegal until well after the US war for independence. The founders however didn’t say that women were second class, but were clear to use the word persons, repeatedly utilized. Most of them wrote critically of religion, as something that would disappear eventually with the advent of science. If they intended white men always to remain ascendant, wouldn’t they write ‘white man’, instead of ‘persons’ or ‘people’?
As it’s well known that they intended the Constitution to be a living document that provided a framework, upon which and with which society would evolve, it seems clear they could see a future in which people of all persuasions would attain equality.
I get shocked all over again when encountering how women are still viewed in the United States [and around the world], as well as people of color. Suffragists tabled campaign for women's rights just before the Civil War in order to align with abolitionists who worked to end slavery. I think Frederick Douglass was also a feminist. That was a powerful alliance! And it is surely true that the darkness of some hearts makes it necessary for us to fight on again and again. This is a tragic time in U.S. history. One would hope the Judiciary all the way up to the Supreme Court would have the people, their rights, and the health of the land foremost in their mind. We are losing ground. The Supreme Court and the Right Wing are a cult. Yes, it is a tragic time in the USA.
Idk, I think that Anglo-European society in general considered women and minorities to be second class citizens. People seem to forget that European nations didn’t make slavery illegal until well after the US war for independence. The founders however didn’t say that women were second class, but were clear to use the word persons, repeatedly utilized. Most of them wrote critically of religion, as something that would disappear eventually with the advent of science. If they intended white men always to remain ascendant, wouldn’t they write ‘white man’, instead of ‘persons’ or ‘people’?
As it’s well known that they intended the Constitution to be a living document that provided a framework, upon which and with which society would evolve, it seems clear they could see a future in which people of all persuasions would attain equality.