Also let’s talk about how the Women’s Suffrage Movement–basically the modern foundation of white feminism– was racist as fuck. They threw Black people under the bus to get voting rights. They didn’t allow Black women to their conferences. They time and again appealed to white men by saying that their humanity was above the niggers’, and Black men shouldn’t have voting rights before them. White women ALWAYS been racist.
A few quotes from famous suffragettes:
Bell Kearney: “The enfranchisement of women would insure immediate and durable white supremacy, honestly attained, for upon unquestioned authority it is stated that in every southern State but one there are more educated women than all the illiterate voters, white and black, native and foreign, combined. As you probably know, of all the women in the South who can read and write, ten out of every eleven are white. When it comes to the proportion of property between the races, that of the white outweighs that of the black immeasurably.”
Elizabeth Candy Stanton: “What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?”
Laura Clay: “The white men, reinforced by the educated white women, could ‘snow under’ the Negro vote in every State, and the white race would maintain its supremacy without corrupting or intimidating the Negroes.”
Carrie Chapman Catt: “White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.”
Rebecca Ann Latimer: “I do not want to see a negro man walk to the polls and vote on who should handle my tax money, while I myself cannot vote at all…When there is not enough religion in the pulpit to organize a crusade against sin; nor justice in the court house to promptly punish crime; nor manhood enough in the nation to put a sheltering arm about innocence and virtue—-if it needs lynching to protect woman’s dearest possession from the ravening human beasts—-then I say lynch, a thousand times a week if necessary.”
