have any problems if blacks and women didn't vote. I interpreted this to mean that they were looking for ways to eliminate the right to vote for women and minorities.

When I was teaching at the college level from 1989-2004, I was constantly surprised/appalled at the voting apathy of black students. I couldn't believe that they were throwing away rights people fought, suffered, and even died for in the civil rights struggles of the 60s.

And then I remembered that I in college and grad school in the late 50s and 60s never thought about (in fact, wasn't even conscious of) the fact that women did not have the right to vote until 1920.

IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT OLDER PEOPLE TALK to young people about their experiences. Only then can young people begin to have a personal understanding of past realities, sufferings, and sacrifices.

Also, BTW, many of the women faculty were appalled at how most of the women students took the present (women in law school, med school, as business executives, etc) as a given, something that had always existed and would/could never change.

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At one point after selection 2000, Anne Coulter said women shouldn't be allowed to vote b/c 'all they understand about economics is how to shop at the mall.'