Yeah, and white women should stop doing that. Beginning with listening more respectfully to black women.
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Ultimately, who voted for whom isn’t really relevant this last election. That’s just scapegoating ( and probably distorted as well due to changes is the absolute numbers of votes). Talking about percentages misses the real story. What mattered this last election was who didn’t vote. That was the difference.
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That’s more on us white women, though. Even if more of us voted against whiteness, the majority of us who vote still did. It’s not on Black women to fix us, it’s on us to fix us. I don’t know how to do that, but I know it needs to happen.
Yep.
I think it is…
I think it’s both. Both can be and are true.
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I never said it was on Black women to fix anybody. It is not and cannot be on the oppressed to “fix” their oppressors. And honestly, as I said, I cannot say what anyone should do. I do feel horrible at seeing folks who should be on the same side sniping at each other. But, again, I also understand the degree of anger and betrayal that this election engendered, rightly so. I don’t know how to address it. I have my hands full with trying to get the white men around me to stop being assholes. I have no answers. I feel like I am watching the world burn.
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That’s kind of my point, though… I have never seen Black women sniping at anyone… time and again, they show up for all the rest of us. And time and again, we all regularly fail Black women…
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What I’m saying is that, mathematically, changes in demographic voting patterns from one election vs another is heavily dependent on how many people voted. When we’re talking about losing 7 million votes from one election to another, a change in demographic percentages has more to do with the change in total votes than an actual shift in voting behavior.
In other words, having a majority of white women voting for T**** might be the exact same number of white women voting for T**** as in 2020 but millions of white women not voting for Harris in 2024. Still painful, but it might not actually mean a demographic shift in who people are voting for but rather in voter participation.
From a forward-looking perspective, I don’t think trying to shift voters away from T**** is nearly as fruitful as getting voters to just get out and vote. That’s how he won this election - getting people to stay home, not convincing people to vote for him.
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I think a lot of division comes down to differences in privilege and how having it causes some to be less empathetic to others. It’s rare to have an environment that truly sucks for everyone - a scenario in which if we don’t all help each other, we’ll all fall and be unable to recover. Having that privilege and risking it being diminished or erased to lift others up is something many are unwilling to do. That doesn’t seem to change whether that privilege comes from race, class, gender, or wealth.
I can only hope that it doesn’t take folks getting a heaping helping of what they’ve dished out to others to change hearts and minds. That’s partly because I wouldn’t wish those struggles on anyone else. It’s also because when things are bad for those with privilege, it’s always much worse for those without it.
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In the words of my childhood: Dang…
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Will have to watch that later. I did it come across my feed, but am not familiar with the youtuber…
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Michael Harriot gives a great lesson about the justification of inequality in media coverage and the courts:
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Why Quincy Jones should be prominently featured in US music education − his absence reflects how racial segregation still shapes American classroom
Quincy Jones, who died on Nov. 3, 2024, at the age of 91, was one of the most influential musicians in U.S. history.
You might think such a notable figure would factor prominently in American music classrooms. Yet my research shows that Jones, who was Black, is rarely mentioned in mainstream U.S. music curricula.
As a Black music professor, I believe his absence reflects the fact that music education in the U.S. is still segregated along racial lines, just like the country was for much of its history.
If you’re thinking that all pop musicians like Jones are banned in the music classroom, just Google “the Beatles in music curricula.” There are countless college courses. The Beatles have been commonly studied for over 20 years.
The Beatles weren’t even American, but they’re part of the American music curricula. And they were white.
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Greedy men who hide behind vengeance…
Same as it ever was! 
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Much appreciate the gaelic shoutouts there! We frequently got our hands slapped in school for saying “she does be” or “he do be”.
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