The Invisible Woman

You may have noticed that certain political explanations are deranged. For example, many Democrats, including several Presidential candidates, have argued that they once voted to give President Bush the power to attack Iraq because Bush had promised that he would not attack Iraq. 

I am really taken by an argument made by much earlier Democrats, about 1865, on why congress should give women the right to vote. 

The real problem for the racist, conservative Democrats of 1865 was that congress seemed to be serious about enfranchising black men. The black vote, the conservatives argued, could be more than offset by enfranchising women. There were more women than black men in America.

Conservatives had forgotten that some women are not white.

Black women were invisible.

Most black women were quickly enfranchised by the Civil Rights Act of 1965, only 100 years later.