Courting The Women Vote

Comparing the title of the cartoon to what is actually happening portrays irony. The title of the cartoon is "Courting The Women Vote", basically Rick Santorum strategizing on how to gain the votes of women with his committee. The irony starts with the captions in the picture; Santorum says, "Lets take a minute to talk about how to attract the baby-making machine vote...". Already this would make any female voters uncomfortable because Santorum sees women as "baby-making machines" which also hints his idea of anti-abortion. Then the papers that counsels are handling says "Opposes access to the pill.", "Attack on prenatal testing.", and "Belittles women in the military." are also other things that Santorum believes that is a turnoff to women. Rick Santorum is a crazy pure conservative who not only can't appeal to women but perhaps even makes women feel belittled. 

This cartoon relates to how women are still not as superior as men in general and how women are still struggling to "break the glass ceiling" because of people like Santorum who believes that women are just "baby-making machines" and what not.  

"African Americans and White Americans have faced similar problems when wanting to participate in politics."

The title of the cartoon states that both African and White Americans have similar issues when is comes to voting which is clearly not the case in the cartoon, in fact it's the completely opposite of what the cartoon portrays. The picture shows the way to the voting booth which is an obstacle for the African American man because he has to go through a literacy test, pay poll taxes, and still face the Grandfather Clause, not to mention white men trying to kill him (KKK, noose). The white man, on the other hand, does not have to go through these obstacles and he get a shortcut straight to the voting booth. The cartoon shows that the White people try to prevent Blacks from voting even with the 15th Amendment in place because of racism back in the day.

Currently, things like this are none existent and there are no more racism when it comes to voting. But this does relate to our class discussion of how, even though the 15th Amendment was passed to not discriminate people of race, color, and previous condition of servitude to vote, this was interpreted very loosely and other laws still prevent Blacks from voting. 

9 Problems With This

I would like to start off this blog by introducing you to the 9 problems I have with running a political blog.

1. I have senioritis.
2. I already got into college.
3. I don't do anything.
4. Every post I make kills me a little inside.
5. This is just evil.
6. I don't care about anything.
7. We already did blogs... and I didn't like it.
8. I already know Mr. Levy is a conservative.
9. I have senioritis.