Time for Women?

 In a few months can it finally be a time for a woman in America's leadership? Women ARE educated experienced qualified spokespersons for our population but still not represented in government with the highest of positions. This year we have another opportunity to make that change with a woman for vice-president. We lost a big opportunity in not electing Hillary especially since she could have been President for the 100th year Anniversary of the right for women to vote. She and Bill could have balanced the budget again and wouldn't have allowed disease and death to cover our entire nation still. As a health care attorney she is the best to get us through this deadly epidemic. Now we have Harris a law and order attorney running for Vice-President who could easily get us through the chaos of strife with protestors and gun wielding citizens clashing on our streets. She could calm men down easily with her education and experience. But will we elect her or let another great woman slide through the voting fingers of this nation and not be utilized?

It took a very long time in the right for women to vote coming. Why must it take a long time of women leadership too? One hundred years ago the 19thAmendment was ratified to give women the right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott held one of the first equal rights Conventions in New York in 1848. It wasn't till 1920 that women had to endure countless protests to get enough states to agree to the women's vote. Just like the Black Livers Matter protest movement we have now, women then marched, protested, gotten arrested  and lobbied Congress for their right to vote. There was a mother who told her politician son to be a good boy and vote for the amendment. He listened to Mom. The Suffrage Amendment was ratified in Tennessee to make it the 36th state needed so that almost 27,000,000 women got to vote in the Presidential election that year. 

Moms tell your sons to vote for Harris. On August 26,1920 the Susan B. Anthony 19th Amendment became the law of the land. It was a 80 year old struggle then. Must we have another 80 year old struggle to elect a woman to our highest of Presidential Office? We are there now and must do it now.  The women who fought for the right to vote were dead by the time the struggle was over. We need a woman to be elected now in our lifetimes too. Black women went through the most struggles even after the Amendment was ratified. They endured poll taxes, literacy tests, intimidation and violence. They have been struggling through to 1965 when the Voting Act was ratified. We have a woman of color in the wings right now to be Vice-President. Make it happen for the black women of history.

It is time for no racism and sexism in politics.