2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWill You #WearWhiteToVote? (or, if you have already voted, wear white on election day)
Will You #WearWhiteToVote?
Suffragettes in the U.K. and suffragists in the U.S. both wore white at rallies and protests. (The National Womans Party mission statement explained that the color symbolized purityand thus, the quality of our purpose.) So did the thousands of men and women who marched on Washington in support of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1978. Shirley Chisholm wore white when she won a historic election for Congress. Geraldine Ferraro wore white when she accepted a historic nomination as the Democratic Partys Vice Presidential Candidate in 1984. Hillary Clinton herself has paid homage to the legacy of women before her by donning the color at the Democratic National Convention during her acceptance speech and at the last two presidential debates. As an election season fueled by sexism winds down to a close, women across the country have staged one last act of feminist defiance: theyre wearing white to vote. (And tweeting about it.)
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Liza Lugo, J.D., posted a similar call on her HubPages account:
In light of all of the women who came before and fought and died for my right to vote, Im wearing white on Election Day. To pay homage to the attorney who was denied admission to Harvard and Yale because she was a woman, for Inez Milholland and the other attorneys who made it possible for my own admission to law school, I will wear white on Election Day.
For the women who represented the writers delegation at that amazing parade in 1913, who opened the doors for female authors one of the most critical forms of exercising free speech, because they led the way for me to be able to write professionally, I will wear white on Election Day.
For the suffragists who went unprotected and their cries ignored by police officers on the day the mob attacked them and for the women whose cries continued to get ignored when they reported instances of domestic violence and abuse to authorities, I will wear white on Election Day.
For the women who lost their innocence in the course of sexual violence, I will wear white on Election Day. For the women who died during childbirth and labor, who could have been saved, I will wear white on Election Day. And for those women who have died at the hands of their abusers, I will wear white on Election Day.
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Womens votes will decide the 2016 election. As reported in the Summer 2016 issue of Ms., the gender gap is predicted to be the largest in historyand the kinds of issues that drive women, people of color, and other marginalized groups to the polls are taking center stage. Regardless of who youre voting for, wearing white is a fitting homage to the political power women have cultivated in the U.S. since the ratification of the 19th Amendment nearly a century agoand all those who led the fight for its actualization.
Are you wearing white when you vote?
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2016/11/01/women-wearing-white-election-day/
hlthe2b
(102,231 posts)(I guess I better hunt down that 'stain' stick... Heavens I get clumsy when I wear white for some reason--LOL)
niyad
(113,275 posts)Glamrock
(11,795 posts)but, alas, I wore my black western shirt (with embroidered red roses of course!) and my favorite vintage Levi's bells. I have some cream colored leathers I'd have proudly worn, had I known......
niyad
(113,275 posts)But, kinda like Jim Morrison, I don't really need a reason to wear em.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)but I damn well will wear white on Election Day! (And will probably spill wine all over it that night)
I'm an election judge on election day, and I'll wear white to the polling place!
niyad
(113,275 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)given how clumsy I can be, particularly when I'm drinking. And I intend to CELEBRATE after my judging stint is finished!
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)will do!
cry baby
(6,682 posts)Beautiful pictures.
Hekate
(90,648 posts)Cha
(297,155 posts)can handle that! party:
JI7
(89,247 posts)blue jeans and white t shirt
niyad
(113,275 posts)demmiblue
(36,841 posts)Jeans, a white shirt and a purple and gold headband. Yep.
niyad
(113,275 posts)forgotten about it.
would you please cross post in women's rights and issues and video for wider visibility and so it can be rec'ced???
Oh oh oh oh...
Caught in a Bad Romance!
Oh oh oh oh...
Caught in a Bad Romance!
Vo vo votes ah ah aah
Whoa aa, wont ta aah
Stop ha, ooo la la
Til we have suffrage!
Vo vo votes ah ah aah
Whoa aa, wont ta aah
Stop ha, ooo la la
Til we have suffrage!
It's gotten ugly
They passed the 15th
Still women have no right
Nor guarantee
To liberty
Child, health, wealth
Or property
Hey! Well raise our banner
Across this land hey!
Cause franchise isnt just
The right of a man
Universal
Yuh, yuh, yuh, its universal!
Yuh, yuh, yuh, universal!
You know we don't want to
Take freedoms from you
Just want our rights and nothing less
We cry for freedom
Oh, hear our voice
And see were equal to all men!
Oh oh oh oh...
We the whole people
Not just male citizens
Formed this most perfect Union!
Oh oh oh oh...
Caught in a Bad Romance!
Oh oh oh oh...
Caught in a Bad Romance!
Vo vo votes ah ah aah
Whoa aa, wont ta aah
Stop ha, ooo la la
Til we have suffrage!
It is a horror
A cruel design
That makes it criminal
a right that is mine
I want the vote
vote, vote, vote
I want to vote
Well, I think youre psycho
I think that its sick
Im queen of my home, raise my babies
Thats it
Dont need to vote
No, no, she dont want to vote!
No, no, no, dont want to vote
The rights of citizens
Shall not be denied or abridged
New legislation, baby!
By the United States
On account of sex
We cry for freedom
Oh hear our voice
And see were equal to all men!
Oh oh oh oh...
We the whole people, not
Just male citizens
Formed this most perfect Union
Oh oh oh oh...
Caught in a Bad Romance!
Oh oh oh oh...
Caught in a Bad Romance!
Vo vo votes ah ah
Whoa ah, wont ta ah
Stop ha, ooo la la
Til we have suffrage!
March, march, be courageous
Fighting
For our rights we may just
Start greatness for the ages
Freedom it is contagious
March, march, be courageous
Fighting
For our rights we may just
Start greatness for the ages
Remember the ladies
Not to be above
but equal to all men
We only ask to be
Part of this Union!
Comme dirait le Français:
c'est Démocratie!
Permettez-moi participer!*
Im a citizen
Of this nation!
An American!
I want suffrage! And independence!
We cry for freedom
Oh, hear our voice
And see were equal to all men!
Oh oh oh oh...
We the whole people, not
Just male citizens
Formed this most perfect Union!
Oh oh oh oh...
I want to wear pants!
Caught in a Bad Romance
I want my suffrage!
Oh oh oh oh...
And independence!
Caught in a Bad Romance!
Vo vo votes ah ah
Woah ah, wont ta ah
Stop ha, ooo la la
Now we have suffrage!
*As the French would say:
This is democracy! Let me participate!
whistler162
(11,155 posts)play with the minds of anyone/if anyone was counting!
FYI: http://www.wnd.com/2016/09/trump-army-planning-to-flood-polling-stations-with-red/
niyad
(113,275 posts)crosinski
(411 posts)I don't own any white things, so I was going to buy a new white outfit, but I decided that if I could afford a new outfit that I could afford to send that money to Hillary instead, so I did.
My mother was born two years after women got the vote. She died after I had just turned eighteen and we never got along, except on one subject ... we were both feminists from the day we were born! It must be genetic. I don't have a photograph of her to carry with me, but I'll wear her ring on election day. She'll will most definitely be there beside me and voting for Hillary in spirit!!!!!
My name is Carol, and on November 8th, 2016, I'll vote for Hillary, the first woman to be President of The United States Of America. And when I vote, I'll be voting for my mother Norma, who was daughter of Estella, who was daughter of Melissa, who was daughter of Lydia, who was daughter of Catherine, who was daughter of Mary, who was daughter of Anna, who was daughter of Maria, and all the other daughters of mothers who will remain un-named, but never forgotten, because they are foundation upon which I will stand when I make history.
niyad
(113,275 posts)be standing by your side as you cast your vote for Hillary. I know they are so proud of you. tears here, as I read that wonderful list.
and yes, wearing white in your heart, and your mother's ring, and sending the money to HRC--that is just perfect!!
Will dress in white and wait for the shattering of another glass ceiling. I'm With Her.
niyad
(113,275 posts)NC Civilian
(24 posts)niyad
(113,275 posts)Demsrule86
(68,555 posts)I will wear white to honor the Suffragettes including Alice Paul who was force fed rotting meat infested with worms by her jailers as she fought for my Grandmother's, Mother's and my right to vote...she never ate meat after that and became a vegetarian. Thank you, suffragettes. I will wear their color...those who fought for my rights in the early 20th century...white. I will watch a woman become president in a White pantsuit...feeling the sisterhood...of all the women who are here now and who came before.
niyad
(113,275 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Two young sons.
We'll have to see what's in the closet.
niyad
(113,275 posts)for the people who have to look at me!!
meow2u3
(24,761 posts)I don't have white pants, but I'd wear those if I did.
niyad
(113,275 posts)niyad
(113,275 posts)purple, gold and white-- will weave them into a sash or something similar.