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.
The country is also filled with the 60% of black folks who didn’t vote. Then for whatever idiotic reason, trump had huge gains from the Latino population compared to 2020.
Over the total Latinos who voted or the total population? I’m willing to bet that the further went up while the latter stayed about the same.
There was a huge swing in the percentage of Latinos who chose him over Harris, com0ared to 2020. Trump went up like 17 points in the Latino vote.
Again I will say: is that because more latinos voted for trump, or less for harris (and yes those are two separate things).
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.
Funny.
Every black woman I saw interviewed on major news outlets in the past 3 weeks said she was voting for trump.
I was so confused.
Didn’t half of this group vote for Trump too?
No. It was 17% of Black voters and less than 10% of Black women.
Of the 40% turnout of the black voters who bothered going out to vote.
Really, it isn’t that trump got more people to vote for him. It’s that less people who would oppose him bothered to go and vote.
Except for the Mexicans. Trump had huge gains compared to 2020 from them.
Many if not most people still work on common identity. They will vote for the person they identify with. That’s religion, class, family values whatever that means, and yes skin color. Say it ain’t so but that’s my take watching politics (inb4 the famous Lemmy misreadings, I don’t agree with that mentality, that’s simply my observation). Even with Obama some voters were saying “well he’s only half black” like that was the final ok.
“But half black and half Indian?!?” [Clutches pearls.]
There was Fox anchor that said straight to Vivek’s face that she wouldn’t vote for him because he’s Indian heritage.
