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   • Hannu Ikonen MD

   @hannu_ikonen @mekkaokereke they made Ida B Wells-Barnett and other Black women go to the back at rallies and attempted to get the right to vote by leveraging white men's racism, saying their votes would cancel out Black men's.

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     @thiswomanswerk @hannu_ikonen

     They didn't just leverage white men's racism. They leveraged their own racism. They were white supremacists. Some white women are white supremacists. Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were two examples of white women who were white supremacists.

     They argued against the *millions* of white men at the time who thought that both Black people and women should have the right to vote.

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     @mekkaokereke @hannu_ikonen I say that they leveraged white men's racism not to say they didn't have plenty of their own, but because they specifically appealed to white male political leaders in written correspondence pressuring them to grant white women the right to vote by saying their votes would cancel out white men. You don't have to tell me some white women are white supremacists, I experience this reality daily 😅