RESPONSE: 10-28-2011

In 1869, Fredrick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony debated women's rights. Douglass's argument was that black women needed to gain equal rights not because they are women, but because they are black. I find this true. Even though all women are not able to vote and whatnot, black women are oppressed more because they are black. Black people in general had no rights at all in the U.S., so even if women were to get the right to vote, it would probably only be for white women and not black women or black people in general. Anthony expressed some great points, but Douglass, as a black man, knows that if black men are not able to do as they wish, especially voting, black women will not even be in the discussion, because of the single fact that they are "Black Women".