• harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Continuing the tradition. The suffragette movement was tied to the civil rights movement. Until the white patriarchy promised white women the right to vote if they dumped the civil rights movement. Then the white women went “fyigm” and helped keep Jim Crow alive.

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      It’s amazing how a large movement can achieve half its goals and then pull up the ladder on the other half isn’t it?