We have not cracked their heads open with police batons as we did John Lewis’s. Bull Conner didn’t turn dogs loose on them because they were women. Our police have not used chokeholds or kneeled on a woman’s neck in front of Apple phone cams.
But unarmed Breonna Taylor was shot at least eight times by police in her Louisville apartment, and a Black woman died in a Texas jail, arrested for failing to use her turn signal! There’s a Black #SayHerName movement—quieter than BLM, but growing, which was started by three Black women.
And reports are that Covid-19 has all women doing more of the housework and home schooling, and giving up or reducing their online hours more than their male partners. It should not surprise.
From the beginning, our forbearers were making a country for the convenience of, and to be ruled by White—Anglo White—men. The Declaration declared that “all men are created equal,” and it meant men. It actually meant White men who owned property. White did not include Italians, Slavs, and the Irish, because they were not part of the founding cabal.
The founders sliced and diced the numbers of Black slaves who could be counted for purposes of establishing Congressional numbers while not allowing them the vote—women too were counted but couldn’t vote.
When women got college educations, they got jobs as “fact checkers,” rarely as writers. Women did write the programs that fed the computer that made the atom bomb. Women who served in WW II were labeled civilian employees and denied the GI Bill. Rosie the Riveter went home, the boys went to college and took up programming (women were not good at math).
This week, “mothers formed a wall” against Federal agents in Portland.
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