<p>That is not what I meant and you know. Twist my words. Women should have been able to vote back then. We shouldn’t have allowed for slaves. We made mistakes and compromises. In this day and age, we should not.
Women did not have the right to vote in this country for over 100 hundred years, so democracy did not include my Great Grandmother. She had no voice. ANd yes, we failed when it took 70 years to stop slavery, we failed when it took another hundred years to guarantee everyone the right to vote…were we any better in the south when people were in the back of the bus? Were we any better when we allowed lynchings to go unpunished? Were we any better when we allowed for years restrictions to citizens of this country on their right to vote? </p>
<p>And do you accept democracy and freedom for women as well as men? Or is that not necessary for you?</p>
<p>We have not been perfect, we have corrected some of our mistakes. But to say that its okay that women lose rights because their men can vote is laughable.</p>