Fair enough, though I still think this is just the normal "must build my brand off a Trump tweet" influx. It would've happened if he pardoned a Thanksgiving turkey too.
She's on a fucking coin, she was never going to be forgotten about! And if she was a racist then she'd fit right with modern women-respecters.
I've actually heard the "Susan B Anthony was a racist" thing before. The favorite quotes:
“I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.”
“What words can express her (the white woman’s) humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully held her unworthy of a voice in its councils, while it recognized as the political superiors of all the noble women of the nation the negro men just emerged from slavery, and not only totally illiterate, but also densely ignorant of every public question.”
“The old anti-slavery school says women must stand back and wait until the negroes shall be recognized. But we say, if you will not give the whole loaf of suffrage to the entire people, give it to the most intelligent first. If intelligence, justice, and morality are to have precedence in the government, let the question of the woman be brought up first and that of the negro last.”
As always,
history is messy, and politics is messier still. Anthony got into a major fight with her former allies, the abolitionists, who wanted to focus on getting black males the vote, while Anthony wanted universal suffrage. It got to the point where she gave up her partnership with Frederick Douglas and formed a political coalition with racist Democrats to get female suffrage, which eventually worked.
Of course, none of that matters now that feminists have been thrown under the progressive stack, and everyone gets thrown under the bus for not having 2020 levels of wokeness 150 years ago.
I didn't think the general left was crazy enough to swing on her after screaming that she should be on the $20 bill a few years ago, but once again TDS reigns supreme.
