Suffs

I think we all must do whatever it takes

For the march to go on

Even if that means waiting your turn

Wait my turn?

When will you white women ever learn?

I had the same old talk

With Carrie Chapman Catt 20 years ago

I thought you might be better

But you still don't know

You want me to wait my turn

To simply put my sex before my race?

Oh, why don't I leave my skin at home

And powder up my face?

Guess who always waits her turn

Who always ends up in the back

Us lucky ones born both female and Black

Wait my turn?

Well, I sure don't see you waiting yours, no

You're preaching, "We demand it now"

While knocking down locked doors

But you want me to wait my turn

So you don't offend your Southern base

Since when does a radical roll over for bigots

In the first place?

That's not leadership, Alice!

It's cowardice

I hear you quote Frederick Douglass on your soapbox

Intending to include and impress us

But in the press, you play down our involvement

And here behind closed doors you attempt to suppress us

"Deeds, not words" says the button on your jacket

I'm so sick of rhetoric with no action to back it

If you don't have the spine to stand with us now

What will it take?

You do have a choice, there's always a choice

Which one will you make?

Don't you dare tell me to wait my turn

In truth, it's not your call

Either I march with my own state delegates

Or I don't march at all

I'm not here to soothe your guilt

That is none of my concern

I won't beg for your approval

Which I shouldn't have to earn

So no matter what you tell me

I will not wait one more minute for my turn

So what should I write down for the record?

"March 2nd.

We become hypocrites."

"March 2nd.

We do more to include colored women than Carrie Chapman Catt ever has."

Look, the country is full of injustices, but fighting all of them at once is a losing war.

Oh, that's rich.

Aren't we supposed to be a movement for equality?

How about you wait till the march to get on your high horse?

Everybody, please!

The march is merely hours away.

Are we going to sit here and fight each other?

Are we going to remember who we are actually up against and go show the next president of the United States the largest uprising of women this country has ever seen?

We've got to find a way, find a way