Steve Benson for February 05, 2017

I would add Ida B. Wells and Septima Clark, just for starters. But also all of the nameless women (and men) who struggled just to stay alive in an oppressive system.

Oh, and Diane Nash.

I can’t help but notice an antagonism to giving women any credit shown in some of these posts. To say that this one or that one didn’t do enough to deserve it ignores the mostly unseen role of women in the world, and this is particularly true of black women. I’m used to being fairly invisible as a white woman. If I were black, I’d be even more invisible. I congratulate Mr. Benson in trying to make them visible to the world.

Well done.

Frederick Douglas didn’t make the cut?

Oh well, give him time….

Winfrey and Obama have NO business there it’s enough to make you gag!!!!!!!!!

Conservative morons don’t think young, black girls should be inspired by black women.

Finally a monument for the rest of America. Was it only White men who made this country great? Or were there always black women crunching hidden figures to make the country great? If you look at this and hate it, maybe you should take a look at why you have such a negative reaction? Maybe the issue is only skin deep.

Black History Mount, or Black Female History Mount? Why the sexism? Frederick Douglas and Justice Clarence Thomas should have made your “list”. I mean, please. Mrs. 0bama and Oprah do not belong.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trumps-gaffe-on-frederick-douglass-isnt-the-problem-relegating-him-to-black-history-month-is/2017/02/06/ca294a16-ec86-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_dvorak-4pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.7a8b834e2da9

“Douglass’s house should have totally been hopping the weekend of that [Jan. 12 women’s] march. He was one of the few men who attended the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848.

“In respect to political rights, we hold woman to be justly entitled to all we claim for man,” he wrote after that convention. “All that distinguishes man as an intelligent and accountable being, is equally true of woman; and if that government is only just which governs by the free consent of the governed, there can be no reason in the world for denying to woman the exercise of the elective franchise, or a hand in making and administering the laws of the land. Our doctrine is, that ‘Right is of no sex.’ ”

But we make the mistake too often of segregating Douglass and Harriet Tubman and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to black history, rather than embracing their place in a broader American history."

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“Want to talk about a divided country?

Douglass saw the danger in that in 1869.

“The whole of humanity . . . is ever greater than a part,” he said. “Men only know themselves by knowing others, and contact is essential to this knowledge . . . all are needed to temper, modify, round, and complete the whole man and the whole nation.”

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“Douglass’s story — born into slavery, self-educated, then a scholar and a revolutionary lauded across the globe — is still the story of today’s America.”

Obama? Really? All she did was manage to have the great good fortune to marry a man who became President. She doesn’t belong on the same PAGE as Parks, let alone a monument.

God Forbid! Obama? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOL

This toon makes the cons cry tears as big as the ones they did for losing the minority vote and having no one show up for the inauguration.