one particular white suffragette, rebecca fitton, wrote an editorial, in which she said, "if it requires lynching to protect a woman's deer's -- dearest position from drunken beasts, then i say lynch a week."d a week eric -- a there was a response in the black newspaper. there was an uprising. hundreds of blacks were killed. the elected politicians were chased out of office. black this misses burned. -- black businesses were burned. homes were burned. it was on the record that the first political coup of the united states. you have a number of interests. you have the suffragettes. you have women who desire the right to vote, yet they cannot see the interests of the african americans. you have people who believe in democracy yet they cannot see the people who are elected have a right to determine some outcomes and they may or may not agree your it i see many of these dueling interests of that time. can we, as a democracy, have dueling interests without it ending in a deadly way? we are now in the 21st century and we feel so much more sophisticated than 100 years ago, that these things cou