(#4893) We the white race males in the States are an arrogant and insolent lot!

      I am just numb more than anything this morning. Just a couple of things that are pissing me off. First and foremost the disbanding of Roe has me boiling hot. In the year I turned 18, 1973, which is as significant a year for any emerging adult, Roe was established and after all those years before hearing of the horror stories women had to endure, to get an abortion, was a cause for real celebration. Then in 1974, yes, a year later after Roe, through the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974, women were allowed to get a credit card in their own name. So when I was in my 18th year of life women were finally allowed more autonomy over their own bodies. In my 19th year of life women were allowed to get their own credit card and define their own economic future.
     It seems to me that we men have a shameful history here that cannot be glossed over. We white men kept women as chattel instead of equal human beings in life. The pattern was similar to black folks whom we enslaved for centuries until they were finally given some autonomy over their lives. Although the Freedom attained from the Civil War and the 15th Amendment gave black folks their right to vote it left states to determine how that right would be allowed. It wasn't until the Voting Rights Act of 1965, my tenth year of life, that the states were prohibited from blocking blacks from voting.
     I bring these, yes, that really happened facts up just to show that the dismantling of Roe is just another example of how we white men and our accomplices are still trying to keep women as chattel and still trying through gerrymandering and horrendous voting obstacles that skirt the now watered down Voting Rights Act of 1965, to keep blacks from voting. We white men and too many white women are responsible for the ongoing attack on women as equal members of our society and blacks, with other folks of color, being discriminated by us to deny democratic principles. We the white race males i9n the States are a scourge and if anything is wrong with our society it is obvious and clearly created by us!