[nfbwatlk] Fw: [Fwd: Fwd: How Women Got to Vote - a historylesson-PLEASENOTE!!!!]

[Lauren Merryfield]

Hi,
I heard about that guy.  I can't believe they expected him to stand up!
Thanks
Lauren
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Jarvis" <carjar at olypen.com>
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Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Fw: [Fwd: Fwd: How Women Got to Vote - a 
historylesson-PLEASENOTE!!!!]


> Dear Paula, History Buffs, and all who struggle for inclusion as 
> First-Class
> Citizens.
> Of course this account is appropriate for our list.  Because it is the 
> same
> story of the struggle of any disenfranchised people.  Names and faces
> change, but the cause is always the same.  We seek, no, we Demand our 
> rights
> as equal, first-class members of our community.
> To some degree the blind have been spared the ugly violence that has been
> the fate of other disenfranchised minorities.  Even, as we see in this
> account, women.  But during this same period of time we saw factory 
> workers
> beaten by national guards, only because they believed that their labor was
> worth a living wage.  We saw First World War vets driven out of our 
> nations'
> capitol.  And what can we say about the treatment of non-white Americans,
> from the struggle of Blacks to the treatment of Japanese Americans, to
> oppression of Chinese Americans and Latinos.  Oh, we almost forgot the
> Savages that thought they belonged to this land before we civilized it.
> But times they are achanging.  Just yesterday I heard about a quadriplegic
> being thrown from his wheel chair by police because he refused to stand 
> up.
>
> Carl Jarvis
>
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