It's only recently that it's been made illegal to pay women less because they're women. Have you seen women rioting in the street, peaceful protests, anguish and hardship? No. There is anguish, there was hardship (and will continue to be, since low pay results in low Social Security....there's no making up for a lifetime of low pay), but it's the quiet daily suffering of people who must accept what is, and make the best of things. That's the way segregation was.
I'm a black woman and you cannot possibly compare women's suffrage and low pay wages to the suffering that blacks have had to endure and are still enduring, for centuries, in this country. Speaking of social security, black people worked for generations without social security. When the slaves were emancipated, did they receive social security, severance pay and retirement, even though they had broken their backs, working like mules to build this country and seeing to their racist slave holders every need and demand? Instead, to show their appreciation, the slave owner kicked the former slaves right out into the streets to fend for themselves and then terrorized and abused them in every way possible (physically, mentally and emotionally) just because they could do so. Even stray dogs get treated like royalty compared to how blacks have been treated. Not only that but the former slaves still had to eat and take basic care of themselves and their families, which meant that even the ones that were way beyond retirement age and too old and too broken down, physically and mentally had to find whatever work that they could in order to take basic care of themselves. Because of their lack of education, skills, and other options, in most cases, this meant returning to the plantation to work as a sharecropper, which itself wasn't much better than slavery and you have the nerve to compare that to a woman not receiving equal pay? Are you crazy?
All typos and misspellings courtesy of a public educational system.
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