of turning point suffragist memorial association thank you both for coming on it's an honor having you. know you can hear. the 19th amendment is a very important part of american history and women's right to vote is particularly bydel with women being the largest demographic in america something we should all be excited and celebrating but how did we get here and what's the significance of the 19th amendment centennial in 2020 when we know that this might be one of the most consequential elections of our time. that you want to take that with. well. i believe that this is history in the making there have been other milestones in the suffrage movement to 50 years the 75 year history but this here is just so special now $100.00 here in reverse 3 people are taking notice at our organization we like to say that the separate movement is the best kept

secret in american history by demand because i guess 100 years just means more then any other major milestone and so the whole movement is getting a lot 7 of recognition. and history is there is a lot of the peeling back of an onion so to speak of information that has not been widespread in its way past time so it's a very exciting. on your the some projects are historically showcased throughout history you know as white women what i want to ask you if you can what was the role of black women voting rights in the history of this movement and why is it consistently stated that the 19th amendment ensured all women voting rights access what in fact you know black women face significant barriers to vote and even with the passage of the 9 to the moment how has that been changed over the years and and how has it gotten better. that's

a big question and so. you know the history of the 1000 amendment is a long history and a complicated history and particularly when it comes to regulations so the suffrage movement had deep ties to the abolition movement the original suffragettes were women who were already motivated they were already activated and they were fighting against slavery in the united states and that's really where the suffrage movement began but then there is a big rift in the at the start of the movement over the 14th and 15th amendments and women's exclusion from those amendments and that's really where the problems began and so you have some white stuff or just who work very hard to secure the right to vote for all women and you have other white stuff or just who don't do that at all and who in fact engage in very exclusionary and discriminatory and prejudiced behavior to try to secure the for themselves and

that will ripped out the suffrage movement and then with the passage of the 19th amendment in 1020 this incredible. just very proud moment for one and unfortunately what in a popping it is that women of color are very much excluded from the way that the 1000 amendment is have been put into place throughout the country and so native american women because citizenship was denied to native women and still 1924 native american women couldn't vote in the united states and then you had chinese american women same story citizenship was denied to chinese american women not able to vote until much later black women of course face a particularly unique set of. prejudices and the. in

access to the ballot because of jim crow laws in the south the same laws that were already impacting men in the south black men once the 19th amendment passes that doesn't protect black women and so those black women are then facing the same set of exclusionary prejudiced and discriminatory obstacles to how it so what we are active in $1000.00 amendment is incredibly important chapter with taurine american democracy but it's not the only chair here and for women of color the story continues to be on length. i've been to blot it out perfectly i think to really summed up what that struggle was and how important and the importance we have more temperate tricia we've made progress but we also have to look at the fact that some of that progress has been hampered by a lot of things that measure that progress with the way to where we currently are women make up only 23.7 percent of congress only 7.4 percent of legislators are

women of color this november 32000 trains people could be turned away at polls because of the lack of an id to vote what does all of this mean for the legacy of the 19th amendment. on fortunately voter suppression is alive and well here we see it state by state we saw it happening and happening in georgia when stacy abrams was running running for governor i mean it's there it is just one of those things that we have to say so and it's very very unfortunate i would like to think that what i'm seeing is women just don't give up i agree with everything that ana said earlier about what happened in so far as african-american women during this suffrage movement and that racism there permeated that entire movement but they never gave up they formed separate organizations and they never gave up they just can't working and working in working. in the early. part of the 20th

century teenager african-american sororities were formed the alpha kappa alpha and the delta sigma theta sorority and 100 years later at least 2. african-american sorority still what is a major sayings if they deal with a year after here are voting rights and so even though there has been the suppression we just have to keep working at it and fighting to try to over take it and i think that there was this things that has been that has been remarkable is seeing that finally women have recognized that they are capable of running for office winning office and doing a wonderful job being wonderful leaders and i think it's grissom's just to sticks that if you ask a man if he wants to run for office will say ok sure no problem but if you ask the women one until say well i don't know if i'm qualified i have to think about this a while and i you know i'll get back to you on that and they don't just jump into

it but i think that women are being encouraged i think you'll see across the country states now have organizations to help train women on how to run for office i know we have that in the state of virginia where i live and i'm really happy to see it because it's my personal opinion that even if we had totally equal number or gender wise of elected officials why it's important is because even though the end result might be the same women have a different perspective on things than men do and so it's important to have the full perspective of the issue before you vote on it and once again we may get to the same conclusive end of the issue but we need to have the perspective of both genders the because we don't think alike i have a wonderful husband and livery and a lot but we don't get to that end result the same way very frequently. today i

have to say that realistically i think if we had far more women leaders represented in this country we would not be in the dire straits that we are in today and many different kind of critics of this country i want to ask you both you can go 1st but how will the female vote impact the 2020 election i mean there is a lot of focus on the presidential but you also have the sunnah you have the house you have other permanent races locally that are up for grabs and well on a how do you think the female vote is going to play this year. what i would say about that. women are amazing right and mean show and used that throughout the stouffer's movement and standing up and you see women chilling out and i think that's a suffragettes would have wanted to see especially 100 years after the ratification of the 1000 amendment it doesn't matter what side of the aisle you're on what matters is that you engage in your community that you care about your community and that you work to make this country better and one of the ways that we can do that

is i engage in our democracy and i think it's just a beautiful thing to be in this $100.00 here and to be able to come together as a country i hope in this moment and rally together as americans and stand for something. and i mean that's something that's here is it's new to the full story of what it means to be american and of what it means to work towards a more perfect union right because that's what the suffrage movement represents it represents. unequivocal power that women have to keep pushing forward and work for something better and so i think that is worth celebrating this year i could not agree with you more and i want to thank you both so much for the good work that you're doing in keeping the movement alive and educating people around the country on the importance of the 19th amendment and what all of those women of all colors did in order to get equality and keeping that fight going to

this day thank you so much for joining us once again and a layman the executive director the women suffragists centennial commission and patricia the executive director and c.e.o. of turning point suffer just more association thank you so much for both coming on it means the world to us. thanks for having make you. all right everybody as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand for the brand new portable t.v. app which is a bailable on all platforms all right there not to download it you ought to your so all right coming up we look at the cheers and jeers over the selection of harris's democratic nominee joe biden's pick for vice president you do not want to miss this discussion stay tuned to watch mooks.

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a woman's right to vote here in the united states we would be remiss if we didn't take an in-depth look at the biggest woman in politics news of the week and that of course of the selection of former california attorney general and current u.s. senator kamel harris to be joe biden's running mate in the 2020 presidential race and in the e-mail to his supporters biden declared quote i need someone who understands that we are in a battle for the soul of this nation and that if we're going to get through these crises we need to come together and unite for a better america. gets that naturally this choice came with the expected amount of cheering support cheering criticism and crisis hardened indifference that we've come to expect from major political announcements here in 2020 of the year where basically everything has come undone. so as we head into a week of virtual political conventions in a race for the white house that after 2 long years is finally finally actually

going to officially starts let's take a look at the impact criticism and historical significance of the biden harrah's ticket to the big dance and joining our ticket to talk about this to do our activists and professor of american history at george washington university brittany lewis am political analyst dr ava's jones the weaver who's also a ph d. very good all right thank you both for coming on today. he's having. thank you so i want to start how do how does the decision of hara shape the bible campaign going forward most importantly does it does it secure him votes in november that he wasn't actually. going to get before britney wanted to start. church you know a. thing if i got in at night and not a lot of hoopla i'm a clear head on a happy day that i i do believe unless there is what is his most. i think it should

biden's ability to play politics if you will i think even more missed pressure on him to not only nickel woman but to be a black woman as. i think to not have to to black women would have been political suicide and since white people specifically black women have been such an important base for the democratic party historically and were truly instrumental in getting bite in the nomination so you know not for all its specially the more progressive democrats or folks on the left are excited about her but i do still believe that there's a large majority of people who are excited about having her on the ticket and i think that they you know represent politics in opdyke politics and optics that she represents and will let me as a voter base that we're not as excited as voting for bite inch as much as they are excited about getting trump out of white house. doctor as what are your thoughts. well i definitely believe that she is going to be that x.

factor that will linda to garner greater and to see as i'm for this ticket we have seen through all the polling that we've looked at in recent months that biden seems to trounce trump on almost every end to cater imaginable except for enthusiasm and there is no deeper base for the democratic party than not only black people but black women specifically and so it made sense to pick kamel harris to be his running mate. not just because she's a black woman but i would argue because she's the best person for the job if you look at her performance for example in the intelligence and judiciary committees if you look at her background being not only elected to the senate but being elected statewide twice which actually is a historic feat in and of itself she brings to this ticket the ability of someone who knows how to campaign she brings to this ticket someone who is a proven fighter and given who they are up against in november we are really truly

in a fight for the soul of this nation and they need a fighter on that ticket and i think that's exactly what she brings to bear. at the top of the show i mentioned that there's been a lot of criticism over paris as a pick what do you feel this criticism is about and should she how should she answer for that is she running for d.p. and what is what is unjust about this criticism there been some that have been pointed towards her record as a g. but there are other things that have come that are basically criticizing her race her background and some very personal attacks so i'm going to start with you dr avis because i know that you're actually going on and you're going to be live later later this evening talking about this and the criticisms and what's what's right and what's wrong about what's coming out about kamala's so you can go ahead take that one. absolutely so 1st of all the attacks on her ethnicity i would just kind of talk that up to playing ignorance it's absolutely ridiculous ok people are

parsing chairs between definitions of african-american and black i understand the difference of that but it seems like to me that a lot of people are assuming they're trying to charge that she's not black because her father is jimi in not understanding that dynamics apparently of the triangle slave trade and the fact that africans were dispersed all around the americas and the caribbean and who we are is based on where the boats docked so the fact that her father is an immigrant fortune from jamaica does not make her any less black then i am given that my ancestors were dropped off here in north america versus jamaica so i just feel like that's just such a ridiculous argument that i hate that i have to waste time talking about it but it's complete ignorance with regards to other issues were guarding her criminal justice background i do believe that she i would love to see her on have

a speech where she specifically talks about her background in terms of her role as district attorney and attorney general in california because she has a lot that she can talk about yes there were some things that were very controversial she said address them directly there were some allegations that i believe were just plain wrong and mischaracterized she needs to address those directly i believe that when ever charges are made you cannot just let them linger out there you have to specifically speak to them so she can speak to the fact that she was the 1st d.a. in the whole nation to come up with a specific reentry program that would divert people from going to jail and instead get them there is that have been some they need to be able to go back into society and thrive so you can talk about how our very own controversal system. a program that had to do with truancy actually lead to more children actually being able to go to school and provide support services for parents who are really living on the

brink i mean there's a lot to these stories that i believe have been intentionally mischaracterized and i would like for her to not run away from them all but instead address them frontally and directly and move forward from there to be able to turn her attention to what's going on in 2020 rather than what happened in 1980 and bernie i want to direct part of this question to you because part of the criticism is also what i would consider success you and i both have done pageants in our lives and you are a member of the divine 9 as well a very important sorority organizations poor poor african-americans when we look at amal harris running right now a lot of shade has been thrown in her direction about people who she's dated in the past we've heard the comments from tucker carlson about how she slept her way to the top how does a candidate actually react or respond to things like that and should she even have to. and he need to know that having said i think deep we need a magic act that was the one for and i don't think they're going to have to pay

someone who's in a bit critical of our track record levels i still don't think that she is deserving of the criticism that she's any especially in relation to her you know her personal life if you will or her you know they're making attacks on her sexual behaviors and things like that at the end of the day whether i agree with her personal politics or not she has. a highly educated woman that has shown a successful track record as a prosecutor and you know some of the senate so again i think the right really they don't have much ground to stand on because she is an excellent v.p. if she does have the resume i think. not only with women but with women of color that are running you know trying to reach a glass ceiling if you will running into these problematic. attack. it's very unfortunate you know we're running out of time on the show but i think it's and it's interesting to point out the ultimately you know biden is 77 years old so really you could look at this vote that you're really voting for you know comma

harris because biden's probably only going to be a one term president and i would assume barring anything really insane she would end up being run you know seat and she'd end up running in 2024 so really that's where this you know she's in that think it is unfair to go after her sex that you know to go after you know issues in her past and things like that her husband or her you know if she's black it up it seems kind of ridiculous i think she does have a history as an a.g. that you definitely could look at and as a voting record of the u.s. senator but are all up for grabs and all up for critique i want to thank you both for coming on today is truly an honor having you on the talk about this once again that is activists and professor of african-american history at george washington bursley brittany lewis and political analyst dr ava's jones the weaver thank you so much for coming on and providing that this information to our audience pleasure is truly a pleasure having you on. thank you. all right everybody about is our show for you today remember in this world we are not told where love enough so i tell you all i

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