 What she is doing is similar to white suffragists is taking a popular convention of the moment and Twisting it to serve her purposes to say that regardless of what you feel about putting the vote in the hands of black people Here's how it will serve your interest. She's speaking the racist language She concludes by saying the ballot wisely used will bring to her the Negro woman the respect and protection She needs it is her weapon of moral defense She has made her point loud and clear and gotten the attention of both white and black readers who then might debate at least the the argument that she has brought to the fore and thereby she's accomplished her aim By putting suffrage smack in the middle of race relations and not just gender relations