If more white women, white men and hispanic men had voted for the smart qualified woman,

[irisblue]

Yesterdays' marches would not have occured

https://rebelliousmagazine.com/no-kings-protest-black-people-sitting-out/

snip-"Despite the chaos and pain, the majority of White women voted for him in the next two elections. So, now that we’re nine months into his second term, there are calls to join marches against this same man. Within these eight years, I haven’t recovered from the first term of damage. The four years in between terms started with a mob storming the Capitol, followed by four years of election denial and racist, insulting comments. For the 2024 election, even though Black women leaders and ordinary citizens implored people to vote for Kamala Harris — a Black woman who had served as attorney general for California, U.S. senator of California and vice president of the United States for four years and had more than enough experience to run the country — the majority of White women went into the voting booth and voted for a convicted felon and sexual assaulter who promised to wreak havoc on Black and Brown lives. "

snip-"At this point, I truly feel that those who refused to do what was necessary to avoid this problem need to fix it. They need to get uncomfortable for a few hours for perhaps the first time in their lives. Maybe they need to experience a fraction of the loss and injustice that generations of Black people have. They need to feel a level of hurt that they blew off when we tried to tell them about our hurt.

Most Black people know that if our bodies are in the streets we will be treated differently than those with White bodies. And we’re tired of putting our bodies on the line to pave the way for someone else’s comfort. We fought for voting rights that all people enjoy. We fought for civil rights that more White women benefitted from than we did. And after all of the fighting we did to gain rights for all, too many took advantage of those rights, walked through the door, then slammed it in our face. Too many recent Brown immigrants did the same thing. They looked down on Black people when they immigrated to this country, ignoring the fact that they were able to get certain jobs or live in certain neighborhoods or attend certain schools due to barriers our Black bodies broke down. It’s time for other people to stop riding on the backs of Black people’s tactical resistance, brilliance and resilience. Others need to step up and fight with the same veracity that we have, instead of only benefiting from our triumphs. "


more there