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April L Smith
2 min readNov 10, 2020

Let’s Hear it for the Womanist

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This is America! We the women of the United States of America in order to form a more perfect union — We attest to the right to be free and equal! I can, and I do, think for myself. Some women were complicit in their agreement to coverture with hopes of building their own aristocracy at the inception of this nation. Most of us were and are fighting to eliminate the caste system that ranked white women second to the white man as superior and a symbol of the dominant caste structure of America.

This is America! America, where the white men amassed wealth by negotiating away other human beings, right to be free outside of being subordinate to the white man. Imagine that the system would have been extraordinary had white settlers been able to accept every person as equal in the eyes of God, and free by birth. Instead, each facet of God’s creation has been manipulated by the laws and rules created by a nation of men with a radical belief in their supremacy.

This is America! America, where suffrage is 100 years plus old. One hundred plus, because we cannot forget the women who were held captive and who fought for their freedom before the organized efforts of the feminist ever took shape. Today this America proves to be biased even in recognizing when history…

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April L Smith
April L Smith

Written by April L Smith

April L. Smith, is the Founder of the KinZac Group Literary Agency. Her blog; Pardon Eve, can be found at www.kinzac.com