Before Bachmann There Was Elizabeth Cady Stanton - But Her Assaults Upon Black People Where Real And Not Astroturfed By Politics

This is a "must listen to" audio report on Feminist, Abolitionist,  Radical Progressive Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

AUDIO LINK OF THE INTERVIEW HERE

While the White Snarling Fox Liberals have added their comedic take to the "offense " that Black Progressives have displayed over Republican Michelle Bachmann references to the condition of matrimony for Black people during the dark days of the 19th century - there was a Progressive woman who was actually alive during these times -  who stood in the assembly halls where SLAVERY was denounced.  As a resident of the northeast she likely heard the great Frederick Douglass speak about freedom for the Negro and the proclamation of Black equality.

Unfortunately when it came time for Mrs Stanton to affirm her belief that "Black Males were EQUAL" at the time when the 15th Amendment proposed to give them the right to vote - she protested feverishly.

From the Wikipedia entry

After the American Civil War, Stanton's commitment to female suffrage caused a schism in the woman's rights movement when she, together with Susan B. Anthony, declined to support passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. She opposed giving added legal protection and voting rights to African American men while women, black and white, were denied those same rights. Her position on this issue, together with her thoughts on organized Christianity and women's issues beyond voting rights, led to the formation of two separate women's rights organizations that were finally rejoined, with Stanton as president of the joint organization, approximately 20 years after her break from the original women's suffrage movement.

Elizabeth Cady Stranton Defined The "Woodrow Wilson White Progressive Bigotry" Prior To Wilson Assuming Office

In reading the one book that I have been motivated to read after being compelled by a reference from Professor Cornel West the book entitled "When Affirmative Action Was White" did an excellent job in pointing out how the common ideology of "Progressivism" can't always mask the outright bigotry of the White Progressive Snarling Fox.  On occasion when they are forced to come out of the shadows of their conservative wolf brothers and must stand an enumerate their position on RACE - they are prone to make it clear that their pearly white enamel shown is not that of a friendly smile.  No longer do they withhold the vibrations of their vocal chords which had previously caused the Negro onlooker to give them the benefit of the doubt as he lacked the audible feedback to be certain of his suspicions.



From Wikipedia

After the American Civil War, both Stanton and Anthony broke with their abolitionist backgrounds and lobbied strongly against ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the US Constitution, which granted African American men the right to vote. Believing that African American men, by virtue of the Thirteenth Amendment, already had the legal protections, except for suffrage, offered to white male citizens and that so largely expanding the male franchise in the country would only increase the number of voters prepared to deny women the right to vote, both Stanton and Anthony were angry that the abolitionists, their former partners in working for both African American and women's rights, refused to demand that the language of the amendments be changed to include women.

Eventually, Stanton's oppositional rhetoric took on racial overtones.  Arguing on behalf of female suffrage, Stanton posited that women voters of "wealth, education, and refinement" were needed to offset the effect of former slaves and immigrants whose "pauperism, ignorance, and degradation" might negatively affect the American political system.  She declared it to be "a serious question whether we had better stand aside and see 'Sambo' walk into the kingdom [of civil rights] first."  Some scholars have argued that Stanton's emphasis on property ownership and education, opposition to black male suffrage, and desire to hold out for universal suffrage fragmented the civil rights movement by pitting African-American men against women and, together with Stanton's emphasis on "educated suffrage," in part established a basis for the literacy requirements that followed in the wake of the passage of the fifteenth amendment.

Stanton's position caused a significant rift between herself and many civil rights leaders, particularly Frederick Douglass, who believed that white women, already empowered by their connection to fathers, husbands, and brothers, at least vicariously had the vote. According to Douglass, their treatment as slaves entitled the now liberated African-American men, who lacked women's indirect empowerment, to voting rights before women were granted the franchise. African-American women, he believed, would have the same degree of empowerment as white women once African-American men had the vote; hence, general female suffrage was, according to Douglass, of less concern than black male suffrage.

 Disagreeing with Douglass, and despite the racist language she sometimes resorted to, Stanton firmly believed in a universal franchise that empowered blacks and whites, men and women. Speaking on behalf of black women, she stated that not allowing them to vote condemned African American freedwomen "to a triple bondage that man never knows," that of slavery, gender, and race. She was joined in this belief by Anthony, Olympia Brown, and most especially Frances Gage, who was the first suffragist to champion voting rights for freedwomen.

The petition of Stanton and other suffragists
Thaddeus Stevens, a Republican congressman from Pennsylvania and ardent abolitionist, agreed that voting rights should be universal. In 1866, Stanton, Anthony, and several other suffragists drafted a universal suffrage petition demanding that the right to vote be given without consideration of sex or race. The petition was introduced in the United States Congress by Stevens.  Despite these efforts, the Fourteenth Amendment was passed, without adjustment, in 1868.
By the time the Fifteenth Amendment was making its way through Congress, Stanton's position had led to a major schism in the women's rights movement itself. Many leaders in the women's rights movement, including Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howe, strongly argued against Stanton's "all or nothing" position. By 1869, disagreement over ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment had given birth to two separate women's suffrage organizations. The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was founded in May 1869 by Anthony and Stanton, who served as its president for 21 years. The NWSA opposed passage of the Fifteenth Amendment without changes to include female suffrage and, under Stanton's influence in particular, championed a number of women's issues that were deemed too radical by more conservative members of the suffrage movement. The better-funded, larger, and more representative woman suffragist vehicle American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), founded the following November and led by Stone, Blackwell, and Howe, supported the Fifteenth Amendment as written. Following passage of that Amendment the AWSA preferred to focus only on female suffrage rather than advocate for the broader women's rights espoused by Stanton: gender-neutral divorce laws, a woman's right to refuse her husband sexually, increased economic opportunities for women, and the right of women to serve on juries.
Believing that men should not be given the right to vote without women also being granted the franchise, Sojourner Truth, a former slave and feminist, affiliated herself with Stanton and Anthony's organization. Stanton, Anthony, and Truth were joined by Matilda Joslyn Gage, who later worked on The Woman's Bible with Stanton. Despite Stanton's position and the efforts of her and others to expand the Fifteenth Amendment to include voting rights for all women, this amendment also passed, as it was originally written, in 1870.

Who would have guessed that two Civil Right's greats would have crossed paths with the Progressive bigot Elizabth Cady Stanton?

Douglass - who was wily enough to understand Stanton for who she actually was.
Truth - having been duped in the same way that DuBois and Trotter would later be taken by a Progressive that they voted for with the hopes that his rise into the White House would translate into benefit for the Black community.  They judged Woodrow Wilson inaccurately just as Sojourner Truth was mistaken to affiliate with Stanton.  Stanton believed that the Black male, empowered with the "Equal Black Ballot" was inferior as he lacked the intellectual capacity to understand the issues of the day as did she - a White, educated and monied elite so understood them.

I credit the modern day Snarling Fox White Liberal Bigot.
Instead of being threatened by the franchise of the large quantity of Black people who vote - he knows that it is better for him NOT to say anything that is overtly racist, like Mrs Stanton said in her day, that would cause Black people to sever the joint-venture partnership that has been established around their common progressivism.

As long as the Black voter agrees to remain silent on the lack of relative progress where it counts the most (Within The Black Community) and agrees to obfuscate his angst OUTWARD against his common enemy in partnership with the Snarling Fox's -his White Conservative Wolf brother - this tentative coalition will continue forth.

The most threatening turn of events that the Snarling Fox could ever imagine if the Black American choose to devalue the "Equal Black Ballot" as the primary force for his own levitation and instead began to focus on building up his own community as ORGANICALLY as possible.  Seeing the Snarling Fox as an external agent - he too would be shut out.

With the "Black Consciousness" so decoupled from the present emotion around the "American Political Domain" - the White Liberal Snarling Fox would be prompted to add AUDIO to his snarl.

The best thing that the modern day Snarling Fox White Bigot has going for him is the crowd of Negroes who state affirmatively "WHITE PEOPLE have not changed their true character on the subject of race today as they held 50 and 100 years ago"............................are only talking about WHITE CONSERVATIVE WOLVES and not the Snarling Foxes that they are seen sitting in the guest chair in on MSNBC, HuffPost or various Progressive-Fundamentalist radio call in shows.