The 19th in ’20

November 08, 2016 By: Primo Encarnación Category: Uncategorized

I don’t know if you’d heard, but women were not originally allowed to vote for President under the Original Intent of the Framers, who were a bunch of rich white guys.  It took another 144 years before the 19th Amendment changed all that in 1920.

Susan B Anthony, the quintessential suffragette, did not live to see that day, dying in 1906.  But thankful women (and men!) have been visiting her grave ever since.  In recent years,  they have taken to leaving their “I voted” stickers there.

How cool is this!

How cool is this!

But today. Oh, Today!  With the election of the first Woman President in the History of the United States at last a real probability, this quaint custom has been turbo-charged.

Today. there’s a damn LINE – dozens of people! – standing in a line to tell Susan we made it.

 

Standing in line, not to vote...

Standing in line, not to vote for Hillary…

...but to tell a dead woman you voted.

…but to tell a dead woman you voted for Hillary.

How cool is that!

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