Blog # 4 - Marable's "The Black Male: Searching Beyond Stereotypes"

It doesn't matter if you're black or white, women need to work together to show society that men and women must be treated equally.  In the 1800's, Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment giving Black males the right to vote.  Black and white women still did not have this right.  This happened while both Black and white women decided to get together and fight for the rights that men have.
Marable says that if Black males gained their right to vote before women did "...it symbolized the political advancement of Black male over white middle-class women" (19).  I agree with this statement, but I think in those times where Black men were still known to be less than white people, it didn't look right.  Black men were supposed to be seen as weak people, because of their race.  Women then started to get together and fight to have the same rights as men.  I think it made the white women mad because black men were seen as a threat to them.  I think they got tired of it and this is why they decided to speak up along with the Black women.