Back in my freshman year of high school, my teacher talked about how it had been almost 100 years since women got the right to vote. I told him it was only white women and poc had to wait a way longer time, but he didn’t believe me. My world history teacher straight up didn’t believe me.
@Nick Arjomand ... your point? They weren't talking about men at all. This comment was about women, and poc women specifically. Make your own comment if you wanna talk about Black men's voting right
@Nick Arjomand it wasn't unfair, if anything, it pointed out how unfair your comment was. There was no need for a gotcha comment like yours, but you choose to do one
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?” -Cicero
"Bash the citizenry over the head with political rhetoric disguised as history lessons. If we can keep the people angry about the past, they won't ask questions in the present." -Xi Jinping
Funny story, back when I was in school we had to do an art project based on a quote that we could find. I found that one, and it just... cliicked. The art piece itself was an abomination, but I enjoyed making it.
The USA needs to change how it teaches history, because right now we leave out a good portion of our history and the horrific actions we have committed
There's so much that's not taught in schools or parts to certain things in history that are just left out and it's sad. Did you hear about Black Wall Street?
@@kylewalter3111 Yeah, same here. It's terrible, both what happened, and the fact that I am a 21-year-old, Black American and had never heard about it until two months ago. I've had several African American History courses and events like Black Wall Street were never mentioned. Events like that just aren't in the history books.
Idk, did your high school not talk about Jim Crow voter suppression in the south? I'm pretty sure it's a major topic. It's not so much discussed as specifically applying to women because it applied to all PoC and it's mostly discussed in those terms.
The Civil Rights Act is taught and it makes perfectly clear that people of color were not allowed to vote. So, I don' t see why the distiction has to be made.
@@jaydani1996 Yes we do, even though there is a bigger emphasis on the first and second world War, the use of chemical weapons and other human rights violations (ww1) and the Holocaust (ww2) for example, but yes those things and their horrors are taught.
as far as history as a whole, stuff like this happened yesterday if not this morning and yet you have people acting like this stuff was thousands of years ago or that people that lived during that time are no longer alive or in political power.
Yes exactly!!!! People act like this happened a long time ago but the people who were protesting in those pictures were probably somebody’s grandparents that are most likely still alive !!
@@aerin699 When I learned about this in school I thought the 1960s were a long time ago but as I get older I realized how not so long ago it was and I am shocked to see how not much time has passed.
That's a big stretch man, what do you mean stuff like this still happens today, the law doesn't allow it! And if it happens from time to time how is that prove of racism or a problem with the government? if there are murders on the street does it mean the people and the government support it? No.
@@happypt2929 The things they talk about in the end of the video are examples of how it is being made harder for minority groups to vote, even though it is still technically possible. Concerning the murders on the streets, they happen and there have been quite a lot of them in the past months, where black people have been killed by the police, and the police is a federal institution and so it is very much a responsibility of the government.
And that’s why I keep saying American history is nothing to be proud of. So you won 2 world wars but you never talk about what happened inside the country.
Thank you for covering this part of history. Far too long coverage of the sufferage movement excluded the oppression / struggle of Black and POC women.
Serenity Serenity did you miss the POC part of my statement? Black women *especially* have been at the forefront, baring the brunt of many social movements yet are the least protected or acknowledged. So when I put Black first, I meant it, while also acknowledging that Black women weren’t the only ones left out of the suffragette movement.
@@ameliefawson5151 Also check out valethia watkins alongside Tommy curry as their africana thought has gone far to debunk the erasure imposed by feminist discourse
I have to agree with my friend above all history is dark... We've come a long way, Like the Beatles said 50 years ago It's getting better all the time. Peace y'all
I wish the system was different too. Instead of everyone having the right to vote, you need to earn it. Maybe by taking a test to see if you are politically aware of what is going on or atleast know how to differentiate different ideologies. Folks voting with no clue on politics is hurting democracy in the long run.
I’m so glad that you brought up Latinos it made me feel a lot better I feel like as a Latino often we get swept under the rug. I am not Mexican I am Puerto Rican just as a reference my experience is very different from a Latino Mexican and yet it all is still the same.
Thanks for sharing. MLK said it best, “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.” Such a sad, sad truth.
Based on these individuals voting patterns the past decades, did we become better off by these sort of amendments if we take a honest look into it? Are Democrats solving the domestic issues seen today?
*In this country, women’s liberation flowered best in the soil prepared by black liberation.* The mid-nineteenth-century abolitionist movement yielded suffragettes; the mid-twentieth-century Civil Rights movement yielded Woman’s Liberation. Both movements were loudly championed by black men (no white men so distinguished themselves), but both abandoned black civil rights and regarded the shift away from the race problem as an inevitable and necessary development-an opportunity to concentrate on exclusively sexist issues. Each time that shift took place it marked the first stage of divisiveness and heralded a future of splinter groups and self-sabotage.” -Toni Morrison
Thank you, Vox for naming a Latina suffragette! Never once was I taught that one even existed and never knew where I fit in in the history of the movement.
"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these." -Susan B. Anthony
Black Woman have suffered the most from the start of history and even till this day they are attacked and viewed differently. You have to give a lot of respect to them, these black queens are vital a blessing from god.
>suffered the most from the start of history *Laughs in Catholic, Armenian, Polish, Serbian, Bosnian, Greek, Hindu, Han Chineze, Korean, Irish, Protestant, Reformed, Dutch, Czech, Slovak...*
As a millennial, I remember my mother and father rushing home after work to get us situated and rushing back out on a strange Tuesday to go vote. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I understood the importance of what she was doing. Voting was held in such high esteem in the Black community in Chicago! Although I was well aware of the struggle, this cements my actions and admiration for voting. Taxation without representation is the main reason America fought the revolutionary war. Black America it's time to take our place in the formation and participation of the American democracy. Asian, Hispanic..etc rights wouldn't be here if it weren't for the Black people who sacrificed their lives for all rights.
Why these stories need to be told? Because the truth is not taught in our American History classes in our public schools!! It’s a shame how some states are trying to bring back those practices to this day.
@@jusletursoulglobaby Just search the news for voter suppression if your short on time. If you have a lot of free time on your hands you can read the report from the bi-partisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 2018 titled _An Assessment of Minority Voting Rights Access in the United States_ .
I love this! Still, the disenfranchising of black voters carries on to this day via Republican voter suppression, gerrymandering and intimidation. Let's get this turned around on November 3rd!
@keagan Minogue gerrymandering is both parties. Voter suppression is nowadays more a feature of the Republican party - especially considering the shifts in the electorate
M4TT - 4 life is I mean I don’t know you but I’m just trying to make your day a little. I didn’t have to make your whole day, but just a little. If it didn’t I’m sorry. But what I mean is I do.
I was extremely surprised while reading Richard Nixon's biography that he complained when buying his house near Washington DC that the house title specifically forbade selling to blacks. Most suburbs until about the 1970's had anti-black clauses, but such clauses didn't release urban sales taxes from paying for suburban schools.
@@langhamp8912 d.c. is the south. Md is a southern state. It had slaves until slavery was abolished. It sided with the south with EVERYTHING except succession. Half of the people were loyal to the union, the other, the confederacy
@@ertfgghhhh Most suburbs until about the 1980's, regardless of location, had local laws that forbade blacks and Asians from purchasing houses. St Louis, for example, was way in the north.
As usual, on the land that belongs to Native Americans the stories always forget them. Remember, that Native American men and women did not get to vote until 1924.
true. Some states also suppressed votes if you lived on reservations so full voting rights across the US occurred in 1957 if I remember correctly. Democracy is always in a balancing act.
Wonderful video. However in the end Kamsla Harris pops in. May I remind you that Harris incarcerated nonviolent case offenders who are predominantly black people on the basis of cannabis possession. She also laughed about the idea of legalizing cannabis although the illegality is disproportionately affecting blacks, which in turn are incarcerated and stripped from the right to vote.
@@itheuserfirst3186In other words"hate the game, not the player" sort of thing? And if the laws are changed they should be changed on the basis of what is more sound, right? On the basis of the data gathered. If we can agree that there has been unjust laws in America's history, that means there could be unjust laws today. Hence, there should be always room for revision.
Hey Vox, you guys completely left out Lucy Stone. She was the founder of the woman's suffrage movement; she cared for black people's voting rights as much as she cared for women's voting rights.
The electoral college ensures that all states are represented. Without it, New York and California would be electing every single president and no other parts of the country would have as much power as those states. What are they teaching in schools now? This is VERY basic history🤦♀️
@@minttea1966 Public education is a shambles now. My Jr High daughter has told me she has never been taught the Civil War. They are just focusing on STEM now it seems. And is Common Core still a thing?
@@minttea1966 the reality of population distribution makes that untrue. Also, california is not the liberal bloc most think of it as - and opening the popular vote would be opening up the country to campaigning. Also, you could argue that the electoral college has also aided polarisation especially with red states and blue states
Black women are very important for american history, yet, sometimes not taken the consideration they should have. From the battle against slavery to LGBT rights, they were key members of those movements
Sadly fight for equality for health, salary, housing right for color people and native is still continue until today. On different note: Zitkála-šá is so beautiful
Dragon1717 no one is asking for life to be handed to them on a silver platter, just to be treated equally in all areas of life and if you’ve fooled yourself into thinking POC and white people are completely equal now then you are ignorant.
Dragon1717 don’t put systemic racism in quotes as if it’s some make believe thing the POC make up to blame for their failure. Systemic racism IS absolutely a factor in our success but not something that makes us unable to succeed.
I personally got laughed at for being exited to be finally allowed to vote this year and next year . It's so ignorant because many people don't have the right to vote. So please no matter where you live and voting is possible, vote.
Hi Vox. A while ago you made a video with the same theme on the sufferagette movement and the fight for equal rights in the UK. I made a comment about the fact that you didn’t address the fact that the movement was wildly racist and excluded British women of colour. Nice to see that you have addressed this with a Us focus, but it would be nice to see you guys make an effort to directly address the same situation in the UK. The history is there and your audience deserve to see it accurately represented.
I watched PBS The Sufferage of. Women move and was disappointed that only white women were allowed to vote only? They represented their race and the black women were asked to join the events and protest I believe to get President Woodrow Wilson to support and for Congress to ratify 19th amendment I’m not a historian or anything either, but interested in the truth. It’s so amazing though what women did to make a change. I’m going to watch again. God bless you all sisters!
Everything has to start with baby steps whatever gets us in the right direction as a specie we should take or humans are gonna go extinct. Science is real climate change is real racism is real. I am so worried about women we have be represented since biblical times and it is still working with some people we have to be careful we do need guns cause what if women have to band together for our rights to be human. Not all women I in the world are free yet
Please dont use latinx when referring to latinoamerican people, it might seem like the woke thing to say, but in truth, people like myself who are from latino america dont like that term. we associate it with out of touch white people who are ignorant to our community.
I personally am mixed I don't care about any racism or political views I just want all people to be equal and protected and I think if we always do the next right thing it will happen just we have to all get along to do that the more people that get along the more chance humans have of survival
The North Carolina state legislature was caught by a federal court for taking racial data to show which IDs Blacks were more likely to possess which whites were unlikely to possess, and then got rid of those in their voter ID law
@@WanderingRationalist that's not how it is meant to be run- but it is run like that. It's expensive to make sure people get it, and it fails at its task of catching voter fraud - the few cases of voter fraud wouldn't have been caught by ID laws. It really doesnt do anything, other than be easily manipulated to target certain voters
@@WanderingRationalist as a Brit, I dont know, but I believe they use voter rolls and registrations, and since the research on IDs show they are pretty ineffective in their stated purpose - those stages work. But the machines they use are old and americans should probably vote by mail.
So were there places where in practice black men could vote but black women couldn't after the 19th Amendment? The footnote always given about the passing of the 19th Amendment is "but not black women!!", but seems that is because the rights of black people in general (not just those of women) were suppressed in those areas.
Coming from NZ where women could vote the first time regardless of class or ethnicity, it puzzles me why it took so long for the USA to put their A into G.
I find it hard to believe that discrimination will be eliminated, even if everyone in the world is exactly the same (Skin, religion, race etc) I am sure something else will come up to make sure we stay divided
Could you make a video that explains how these seemingly neutral laws are used to discriminate people of colour? It would really interest me to learn more about the topic, which aguably is becoming more relevent considering the upcoming election in 2020.
That would be a great video topic! Especially considering how many laws there are that are just like that. There are too many laws with loopholes and no enforcement for some much-needed protection and rights of people of color.
Sweet... My brothers and sisters are my brothers and sisters. I can only apologize for the sins of my forebears. They are not mine. I am not a young man but I always believed that all men are created equal that is always included my sisters. It is a small world and a short existence And we cannot waste one minute making the world a better place for all of us. Which really is all the time it would take if it wasn't for those in power that fear losing that power. I'd go as far as saying eat the Rich But we all know what they would taste like... Thanks Vox another great video. Thanks family, love you.
I just don't get the argument that some people make about history being irrelevant or there not being a need to study and analyse history. Because those who do not learn their history are doomed to repeat it.
Yes. Things got gradually better. But at a certain point on time - decades ago - it got better for everyone. But some people will still be victims for ever and eternity according to you. That doesn’t help anyone does it.
As a black woman this is an eye opener. The only thing that I see that's not an issue is the voter ID requirements. If you have to produce an ID to go to the ABC store, drive, get a job etc. Then voter Id is not a race issue. I have lived in a predominantly white area since the age of 18 and its never kept me from the polls.
Why’d you have to ruin such a beautiful segment by tacking on Kamala at the end. She was raised in a wealthy Indian household, never acknowledging her blackness until it suited her, like wanting to go to a prestige university like Howard or when it was politically advantageous. She is black in the American, on drop definition but she was not raised in a black house hold, she easily passes as other another race she has had no struggles associated with her blackness only benefits so how in the world can she relate. The answer is she doesn’t.
Back in my freshman year of high school, my teacher talked about how it had been almost 100 years since women got the right to vote. I told him it was only white women and poc had to wait a way longer time, but he didn’t believe me. My world history teacher straight up didn’t believe me.
Teachers educated in the 20th Century and pre-internet are especially reluctant to embrace new information.
Susan Cummings True. He was an older white man so looking back I’m not really all that surprised.
Allie 1928 was when then UK allowed women to vote, still 8 years until our 100 years
@Nick Arjomand ... your point? They weren't talking about men at all. This comment was about women, and poc women specifically. Make your own comment if you wanna talk about Black men's voting right
@Nick Arjomand it wasn't unfair, if anything, it pointed out how unfair your comment was. There was no need for a gotcha comment like yours, but you choose to do one
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?” -Cicero
i respect Cicero
@Bart Roberts bruh
"Bash the citizenry over the head with political rhetoric disguised as history lessons. If we can keep the people angry about the past, they won't ask questions in the present."
-Xi Jinping
Funny story, back when I was in school we had to do an art project based on a quote that we could find. I found that one, and it just... cliicked. The art piece itself was an abomination, but I enjoyed making it.
The USA needs to change how it teaches history, because right now we leave out a good portion of our history and the horrific actions we have committed
There's so much that's not taught in schools or parts to certain things in history that are just left out and it's sad. Did you hear about Black Wall Street?
@@angelk3755 yeah, I heard of black wall street and it's destruction. Learned about it through UA-cam
@@kylewalter3111 Yeah, same here. It's terrible, both what happened, and the fact that I am a 21-year-old, Black American and had never heard about it until two months ago. I've had several African American History courses and events like Black Wall Street were never mentioned. Events like that just aren't in the history books.
absolutely. unfortunately every country is like that. (not that that makes it any better!)
@@kaitlyn__L True, many countries do it, but we need to learn from Germany and accept that we have made many mistakes and teach about them
I wish they taught this at public school. One has to learn it if you take the class in college.
Idk, did your high school not talk about Jim Crow voter suppression in the south? I'm pretty sure it's a major topic. It's not so much discussed as specifically applying to women because it applied to all PoC and it's mostly discussed in those terms.
Republicans don’t want to acknowledge the past
The Civil Rights Act is taught and it makes perfectly clear that people of color were not allowed to vote. So, I don' t see why the distiction has to be made.
OBK you mean democrats
It’s part of every high school curriculum though, at least where I’m from. What state you not learn this about?
You’ll find that USA “history” in general is mythology ,to put it kindly.
As well as the rest of the world's history
@@jaydani1996
Not sure what you mean.
Here in Germany we learn a very harsh and brutal truth of our history, with little mythology.
@@TBFSJjunior really u learn about the thousands that u killed in Namibia the horrors u unleashed during the mediaeval ages the crusades and stuff?
@@jaydani1996 yes, we do
@@jaydani1996
Yes we do, even though there is a bigger emphasis on the first and second world War, the use of chemical weapons and other human rights violations (ww1) and the Holocaust (ww2) for example, but yes those things and their horrors are taught.
as far as history as a whole, stuff like this happened yesterday if not this morning and yet you have people acting like this stuff was thousands of years ago or that people that lived during that time are no longer alive or in political power.
Yes exactly!!!! People act like this happened a long time ago but the people who were protesting in those pictures were probably somebody’s grandparents that are most likely still alive !!
@@aerin699 When I learned about this in school I thought the 1960s were a long time ago but as I get older I realized how not so long ago it was and I am shocked to see how not much time has passed.
That's a big stretch man, what do you mean stuff like this still happens today, the law doesn't allow it! And if it happens from time to time how is that prove of racism or a problem with the government? if there are murders on the street does it mean the people and the government support it? No.
@@happypt2929 The things they talk about in the end of the video are examples of how it is being made harder for minority groups to vote, even though it is still technically possible. Concerning the murders on the streets, they happen and there have been quite a lot of them in the past months, where black people have been killed by the police, and the police is a federal institution and so it is very much a responsibility of the government.
Happy PT the aftermath of the past still affect people of color and it’s very noticeable that’s what they meant
The history is not as glamorous as it first seems.
It rarely is as glamorous as first seems
Bernardo Mercado yup
And that’s why I keep saying American history is nothing to be proud of. So you won 2 world wars but you never talk about what happened inside the country.
Josiah Williams everything has nuance. It’s not all good or all bad.
No country's history is.
Thank you for covering this part of history. Far too long coverage of the sufferage movement excluded the oppression / struggle of Black and POC women.
Not just black individuals suffered in the fight for change. There's almost been a disproportionate obsession in that idea lately.
Serenity Serenity did you miss the POC part of my statement? Black women *especially* have been at the forefront, baring the brunt of many social movements yet are the least protected or acknowledged. So when I put Black first, I meant it, while also acknowledging that Black women weren’t the only ones left out of the suffragette movement.
You can vote now, can't you?
@@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 It said Black women and POC women. Can you read?
@My Thought's No, it's not though. 🤔
Vox, I see what you doin'😅 encouraging people to vote, by showing them how valuable a vote is👍🏾❤
They tried it lol
CottonBalls Why are you saying trump would get re-elected but the Senate would gain a Democrat majority?
CottonBalls booo wrong. Lol
@@cottonballs185 You were saying...
@@ameliefawson5151 Also check out valethia watkins alongside Tommy curry as their africana thought has gone far to debunk the erasure imposed by feminist discourse
Even though i dont live in america this history is very disturbing to me
Halo aldo
History is a dark place for us born in the present.
I have to agree with my friend above all history is dark...
We've come a long way,
Like the Beatles said 50 years ago
It's getting better all the time.
Peace y'all
Am sure there are things from the history of whichever country you are from that will be very disturbing to you.
@@Belioyt i think so but knowing this comes from the country that uphold the freedom so high is another level of disturbing
Glad this was pointed out. So many blindly say “women got the right to vote” yet this did not include all women.
What an insightful video that highlights the struggle of women's right to vote throughout history and now.
Shame on the establishment.
I wish the system was different too. Instead of everyone having the right to vote, you need to earn it. Maybe by taking a test to see if you are politically aware of what is going on or atleast know how to differentiate different ideologies. Folks voting with no clue on politics is hurting democracy in the long run.
@@corey1854 I only know the UK
I’m so glad that you brought up Latinos it made me feel a lot better I feel like as a Latino often we get swept under the rug. I am not Mexican I am Puerto Rican just as a reference my experience is very different from a Latino Mexican and yet it all is still the same.
I won't what Puerto Rico will do. I meant it can't stay a territory forever. You can see how our President treated Puerto Rico like.
your not a latino you are a mestizo
glad you got to victimize yourself!
miles Nicolini feel better now that you got to say something mean and untrue?
@@squeakythundermoon8084 sorry ive been watching to much politics my bad.
Protect and fight for black women! ✊🏼✊🏼
No I don’t think I will
Shrek with a will smith face your choice, no one should force you.
@Starminor Black Fathers Matter. Women shouldn't be abandoned and left alone with their children.
Black who. Stop acting privileged
Pinkie Love ?
If we take for granted what was hard fought, we will lose it in an instant.
You got that right.
"Land of the free"
“Whoever told you that is your enemy”
It is an ideal to live up to, and so far the US seems to be moving in the right direction.
Yup the most free. Trust me, it’s much worse out their
Thanks for sharing. MLK said it best, “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.” Such a sad, sad truth.
It always surprises me how prevalent racism was just several decades ago...
Still is.
Surperies me how prevalent racism still is today.
It still is. Which is the sad part.
Nope black people became too soft
That's your white privilege.
When people say.. "Make America Great AGAIN"..
History: America was never great!
Kaleb J - That depends on what your definition of GREAT is. So, show me a country, that in your opinion, has achieved more?
They had to wait a long time to have their courage to fight for their rights I'm so sorry ladies
Based on these individuals voting patterns the past decades, did we become better off by these sort of amendments if we take a honest look into it? Are Democrats solving the domestic issues seen today?
And you're ignoring the men who are drafted to this day?
ugh muffin - real talk
ugh muffin who are you talking about?
Serenity >we should take the right to vote from minorities because they don't vote for the racist party
old title just in case: "the myth of the 19th amendment"
@boom • yep
Who cares
@@kaitlynm9463 did i say anyone would care?
@@pennydreadfuls_ then why did you post if you thought no one would care?
thank you. I used to like seeing that stuff in my emails, but UA-cam stopped sending those.
Black American history is American history
More of this history needs to taught in schools
Wow, so much has changed, but not much has changed at all
Same situation, different people
What?
To this day not every American has the possibility to vote,
especially as long as Trump is president.
this country's history is often hidden, but always revolting when it is uncovered.
Lies my teacher told me
Well that was an 8-minute emotional rollercoaster
Guys we can not let our ancestors down ✊
Also check out valethia watkins alongside Tommy curry as their africana thought has gone far to debunk the erasure imposed by feminist discourse
Schools: Teaches Wrong History
Well I mean take apush you learn all about it
No they do teach this in America???
@@mr.mayorr7793 not at all if you want to know about things like this, you gotta go to libraries or ask an elder in your family
I learned at college I didn't know any of this stuff
So important to say their names and express gratitude for their tireless, thankless work. There is no democracy without us!
*In this country, women’s liberation flowered best in the soil prepared by black liberation.* The mid-nineteenth-century abolitionist movement yielded suffragettes; the mid-twentieth-century Civil Rights movement yielded Woman’s Liberation. Both movements were loudly championed by black men (no white men so distinguished themselves), but both abandoned black civil rights and regarded the shift away from the race problem as an inevitable and necessary development-an opportunity to concentrate on exclusively sexist issues. Each time that shift took place it marked the first stage of divisiveness and heralded a future of splinter groups and self-sabotage.” -Toni Morrison
Please I like this quote but where is the footnote the source
Thank you, Vox for naming a Latina suffragette! Never once was I taught that one even existed and never knew where I fit in in the history of the movement.
Same here. Its shameful that it took the randomness of the algorithm for me to come across this information.
"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these."
-Susan B. Anthony
Black Woman have suffered the most from the start of history and even till this day they are attacked and viewed differently. You have to give a lot of respect to them, these black queens are vital a blessing from god.
They forgot Nina Turner. She's a Progressive Black Woman. She helped Bernie Sanders in his campaign.
>suffered the most from the start of history
*Laughs in Catholic, Armenian, Polish, Serbian, Bosnian, Greek, Hindu, Han Chineze, Korean, Irish, Protestant, Reformed, Dutch, Czech, Slovak...*
black men 2
All ways playing victim
@@misterwheatley1386 Let's not downplay how rough it was for African Americans, let alone many Africans, from the scars of Colonialism.
As a millennial, I remember my mother and father rushing home after work to get us situated and rushing back out on a strange Tuesday to go vote. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I understood the importance of what she was doing. Voting was held in such high esteem in the Black community in Chicago! Although I was well aware of the struggle, this cements my actions and admiration for voting. Taxation without representation is the main reason America fought the revolutionary war. Black America it's time to take our place in the formation and participation of the American democracy. Asian, Hispanic..etc rights wouldn't be here if it weren't for the Black people who sacrificed their lives for all rights.
Also check out valethia watkins alongside Tommy curry as their africana thought has gone far to debunk the erasure imposed by feminist discourse
3:26 why say "latinx"?? You're specially talking about women, just say latina
Great point
Why these stories need to be told? Because the truth is not taught in our American History classes in our public schools!! It’s a shame how some states are trying to bring back those practices to this day.
what practices?
I learned about this. Idk where you come from g
It is taught already.
@@jusletursoulglobaby Just search the news for voter suppression if your short on time. If you have a lot of free time on your hands you can read the report from the bi-partisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 2018 titled _An Assessment of Minority Voting Rights Access in the United States_ .
@@SomePotato I wasnt asking you fam.
I missed you Vox
I love this!
Still, the disenfranchising of black voters carries on to this day via Republican voter suppression, gerrymandering and intimidation.
Let's get this turned around on November 3rd!
@keagan Minogue gerrymandering is both parties. Voter suppression is nowadays more a feature of the Republican party - especially considering the shifts in the electorate
Do a video about the belarus protests
DMV You need an ID
BANK You need an ID
CLUB You need an ID
LIQUOR STORE You need an ID
VOTING 🤔
I've got a gut feeling Kamala could be an amazing VP
Maybe even president representing both Black and Indian women
Im not american but i never understand why some are against voter ID registration. I think its okey almost all countries have them.
The same question. Maybe someone could explain it now?
@@ZagND "freedom"
Did you not see the video? It's neutral law, that purposely target minorities disproportionately.
@@hectorvega621 So in this case, the problem is not the law, but rather its application?
@@hectorvega621 How is that targeting minorities. Here we are obligated to have an ID which we have to pay and renovate every 5 years.
The right to vote for African American Women was passed in 1965? My grandmother was only 5 years old at this point . This does not seem so long ago
I thank you for reporting this stuff
Thank you, we do not learn this in school. I like to say thank you for all the women who fought for the rights of all people. Thank you.
If people had the slightest idea of what some people went through to give this right to them they would never skip voting again
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It wasnt JUST in the south. It was everywhere
I was extremely surprised while reading Richard Nixon's biography that he complained when buying his house near Washington DC that the house title specifically forbade selling to blacks. Most suburbs until about the 1970's had anti-black clauses, but such clauses didn't release urban sales taxes from paying for suburban schools.
@@langhamp8912 d.c. is the south. Md is a southern state. It had slaves until slavery was abolished. It sided with the south with EVERYTHING except succession. Half of the people were loyal to the union, the other, the confederacy
@@ertfgghhhh Most suburbs until about the 1980's, regardless of location, had local laws that forbade blacks and Asians from purchasing houses. St Louis, for example, was way in the north.
@@langhamp8912 i know. Im aware. They hate to hear the truth about themselves or their family members
I New Jersey we finally got the first Black women on the NJ Supreme Court.
1965 was the year of all equal rights for minorities women to vote. I just learned something new that wasn’t taught in high school
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As usual, on the land that belongs to Native Americans the stories always forget them. Remember, that Native American men and women did not get to vote until 1924.
true. Some states also suppressed votes if you lived on reservations so full voting rights across the US occurred in 1957 if I remember correctly. Democracy is always in a balancing act.
Why America, why?
America has a dark past, before the 1860-65. It’s heartbreaking to know all this. But unfortunately true
Wonderful video. However in the end Kamsla Harris pops in. May I remind you that Harris incarcerated nonviolent case offenders who are predominantly black people on the basis of cannabis possession. She also laughed about the idea of legalizing cannabis although the illegality is disproportionately affecting blacks, which in turn are incarcerated and stripped from the right to vote.
She's a prosecutor following the law. Change the laws, but don't expect a prosecutor to get far ignoring them.
@@itheuserfirst3186In other words"hate the game, not the player" sort of thing? And if the laws are changed they should be changed on the basis of what is more sound, right? On the basis of the data gathered. If we can agree that there has been unjust laws in America's history, that means there could be unjust laws today. Hence, there should be always room for revision.
Hey Vox, you guys completely left out Lucy Stone. She was the founder of the woman's suffrage movement; she cared for black people's voting rights as much as she cared for women's voting rights.
Yet SBA takes all the credit.
5:25 That photo.. “We Want Equal But Segregation” 🤨
But yet, the electoral college selects the president..
The electoral college ensures that all states are represented. Without it, New York and California would be electing every single president and no other parts of the country would have as much power as those states. What are they teaching in schools now? This is VERY basic history🤦♀️
@@minttea1966 Public education is a shambles now. My Jr High daughter has told me she has never been taught the Civil War. They are just focusing on STEM now it seems. And is Common Core still a thing?
Even still, if American citizens have the right to vote all of them should.
@@minttea1966 the reality of population distribution makes that untrue. Also, california is not the liberal bloc most think of it as - and opening the popular vote would be opening up the country to campaigning. Also, you could argue that the electoral college has also aided polarisation especially with red states and blue states
America is not a democracy. It’s a republic.
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Black women are very important for american history, yet, sometimes not taken the consideration they should have.
From the battle against slavery to LGBT rights, they were key members of those movements
Y’all always try to lump in alphabet community in with racial oppression, it’s not the same thing.
Just another reason to pass a new Voting Rights Act to ensure the right to vote!
It is sad women today are not as strong as the women in the past. Those ladies could take a punch.
Hunter Tuggle because they have nothing to fight for
Here's a joke. The USA is the land of the free.
Which land would you prefer to live in?
It is now
white feminism often doesn't the prioritize the rights of other women of color
Sadly fight for equality for health, salary, housing right for color people and native is still continue until today.
On different note: Zitkála-šá is so beautiful
Dragon1717 no one is asking for life to be handed to them on a silver platter, just to be treated equally in all areas of life and if you’ve fooled yourself into thinking POC and white people are completely equal now then you are ignorant.
Dragon1717 don’t put systemic racism in quotes as if it’s some make believe thing the POC make up to blame for their failure. Systemic racism IS absolutely a factor in our success but not something that makes us unable to succeed.
@@elsiemae5182 Ok if the system is so racist, name one racist law.
I personally got laughed at for being exited to be finally allowed to vote this year and next year .
It's so ignorant because many people don't have the right to vote.
So please no matter where you live and voting is possible, vote.
Hi Vox. A while ago you made a video with the same theme on the sufferagette movement and the fight for equal rights in the UK. I made a comment about the fact that you didn’t address the fact that the movement was wildly racist and excluded British women of colour. Nice to see that you have addressed this with a Us focus, but it would be nice to see you guys make an effort to directly address the same situation in the UK. The history is there and your audience deserve to see it accurately represented.
I watched PBS The Sufferage of. Women move and was disappointed that only white women were allowed to vote only? They represented their race and the black women were asked to join the events and protest I believe to get President Woodrow Wilson to support and for Congress to ratify 19th amendment I’m not a historian or anything either, but interested in the truth. It’s so amazing though what women did to make a change. I’m going to watch again. God bless you all sisters!
Everything has to start with baby steps whatever gets us in the right direction as a specie we should take or humans are gonna go extinct. Science is real climate change is real racism is real. I am so worried about women we have be represented since biblical times and it is still working with some people we have to be careful we do need guns cause what if women have to band together for our rights to be human. Not all women I in the world are free yet
Just watching the first couple of seconds it looks amazing... and it prevails.
Please dont use latinx when referring to latinoamerican people, it might seem like the woke thing to say, but in truth, people like myself who are from latino america dont like that term. we associate it with out of touch white people who are ignorant to our community.
I personally am mixed I don't care about any racism or political views I just want all people to be equal and protected and I think if we always do the next right thing it will happen just we have to all get along to do that the more people that get along the more chance humans have of survival
I L❤VE BEING A BLACK WOMAN!!
I don’t believe voter ID is a form of voter suppression. I think it needs to be implemented to confirm who you say you are in a voting address book.
The North Carolina state legislature was caught by a federal court for taking racial data to show which IDs Blacks were more likely to possess which whites were unlikely to possess, and then got rid of those in their voter ID law
Obi Wan that’s not how it should be run. Everyone should use the same form of ID and have access to the process of obtaining that form of ID.
@@WanderingRationalist that's not how it is meant to be run- but it is run like that. It's expensive to make sure people get it, and it fails at its task of catching voter fraud - the few cases of voter fraud wouldn't have been caught by ID laws. It really doesnt do anything, other than be easily manipulated to target certain voters
Bernardo Mercado so how do you make 100% sure a person is who they say they are?
@@WanderingRationalist as a Brit, I dont know, but I believe they use voter rolls and registrations, and since the research on IDs show they are pretty ineffective in their stated purpose - those stages work. But the machines they use are old and americans should probably vote by mail.
I’ve been watching Vox for a while now! I loved their content!! As such, I made my own futurist/sci-fi channel!!
Wow, nobody cares!
So much has changed...yet stayed the same‼️🌍✊🏽☮️
Exactly we need to make sure we keep going forward not backwards
Fun fact no one in the world has finished this video yet
Edit: the editor probably finished it but you didn't
except for the people who made it probably
what about the editors and makers of the video?
Keep making videos like this vox!
So were there places where in practice black men could vote but black women couldn't after the 19th Amendment? The footnote always given about the passing of the 19th Amendment is "but not black women!!", but seems that is because the rights of black people in general (not just those of women) were suppressed in those areas.
My great grandmother who was black never learned to read because she was too poor to go to school. She died last year sadly 😖
IF MAN IS LEGALLY REGISTERED, HE SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
"Forced the hand" of Lyndon Johnson? He is the greatest ever American President for civil rights.
I see that the equal election didn't realize so early as I think.
Coming from NZ where women could vote the first time regardless of class or ethnicity, it puzzles me why it took so long for the USA to put their A into G.
I find it hard to believe that discrimination will be eliminated, even if everyone in the world is exactly the same (Skin, religion, race etc) I am sure something else will come up to make sure we stay divided
How does needing to show an ID inhibit minority voting?
Could you make a video that explains how these seemingly neutral laws are used to discriminate people of colour? It would really interest me to learn more about the topic, which aguably is becoming more relevent considering the upcoming election in 2020.
That would be a great video topic! Especially considering how many laws there are that are just like that. There are too many laws with loopholes and no enforcement for some much-needed protection and rights of people of color.
Let us ALL excercise this Hard Won Right this fall in order to reverse VOTER SUPPRESSION across this country!
And I love it how black women saved the election this year too.
Loved it !
Good job keep it up vox
Sweet...
My brothers and sisters are my brothers and sisters.
I can only apologize for the sins of my forebears.
They are not mine.
I am not a young man but I always believed that all men are created equal
that is always included my sisters.
It is a small world and a short existence
And we cannot waste one minute making the world a better place for all of us.
Which really is all the time it would take if it wasn't for those in power that fear losing that power.
I'd go as far as saying eat the Rich
But we all know what they would taste like...
Thanks Vox another great video. Thanks family, love you.
It's so important to arm up, remember, its harder for them to take your rights away when you have a gun to threaten their livelihood.
Agree we need to make sure women can fight if we have to they won't take our rights away again
All lives matter we are all humans please love each other and always do the right thing so we can protect innocent people without voices
I just don't get the argument that some people make about history being irrelevant or there not being a need to study and analyse history. Because those who do not learn their history are doomed to repeat it.
If you want to keep your culture alive, Take care of the Youth.
Yes. Things got gradually better. But at a certain point on time - decades ago - it got better for everyone. But some people will still be victims for ever and eternity according to you. That doesn’t help anyone does it.
As a black woman this is an eye opener. The only thing that I see that's not an issue is the voter ID requirements. If you have to produce an ID to go to the ABC store, drive, get a job etc. Then voter Id is not a race issue.
I have lived in a predominantly white area since the age of 18 and its never kept me from the polls.
Why’d you have to ruin such a beautiful segment by tacking on Kamala at the end. She was raised in a wealthy Indian household, never acknowledging her blackness until it suited her, like wanting to go to a prestige university like Howard or when it was politically advantageous. She is black in the American, on drop definition but she was not raised in a black house hold, she easily passes as other another race she has had no struggles associated with her blackness only benefits so how in the world can she relate. The answer is she doesn’t.
Thank you 🙏 sista.
It's time for women to take charge
4:40 essentially Portland last night... nothing has changed.
we also see a lot of armed blacks
and the fight still goes on
Remember when Zimbabwe expanded the vote?