We cats are not black, so we consult reliable sources — i.e., people who actually are black — for appropriate reactions to issues that pertain to African Americans. However, as we are (predominantly) female, we feel no compunction to qualify our opinions when it concerns matters of gender. When it comes to girl issues, watch out.
Therefore, while we think that the "slavery was a choice" position is obscene and untrue, we'll confine ourselves to issues we know best. Stuff pertaining to women? Get out your oven mitts, you'll need them.
In a week in which the state of Iowa has dared the Supreme Court to invalidate Roe V. Wade, we're very glad to say that — even though we're long past having kittens ourselves — we don't live in a state that tries to regulate women's reproductive decisions.
Here's what women share with African Americans: As we did not choose our gender, nor did they choose their race. Neither of us should be discriminated against on the basis of who we are. As the arc of history has bent toward justice on the question of skin color, we can only hope that it equally bends on the question of reproductive ability.
Thanks to science, women's control of their reproductive destiny has advanced significantly over the last 50 years. Should women therefore surrender their rights as human persons under a Constitution written more than 230 years ago? Because African slaves in America weren't counted as fully human in 1787 either, the answer is clearly NO. We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.
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