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.
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.