Kamala Harris’s resounding defeat affirmed the worst of what many Black women believed about their country, even as some looked to the future with a wary determination.
Black women could see the mountaintop.
Across the country, they led an outpouring of Democratic elation when the vice president took over the top of the presidential ticket. But underneath their hope and determination was a persistent worry: Was America ready, they asked, to elect a Black woman?
The painful answer arrived this week.
It affirmed the worst of what many Black women believed about their country: that it would rather choose a man who was convicted of 34 felonies, has spewed lies and falsehoods, disparaged women and people of color, and pledged to use the powers of the federal government to punish his political opponents than send a woman of color to the White House.
Yeah, 53% of white women voted for MAGA.
The racist misogyny is definitely coming from inside the house.
But yeah, this election with the 15 million voters, which included millions of Democrats and progressives, who didn’t vote and condoned and let very well known convicted felon, rapist, racist take complete control of the American government has cemented my view that America is definitely a racist country not worthy of my minority male ass helping to fix it anymore.