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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.

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    • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caOP
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      2 months ago

      Sure, but racism and sexism aren’t just white people problems. For example, I’m assuming the repeated efforts to reach out to black men in the last month were reactions to what internal polling was telling them. There are lots of people who’d vote for any man over any woman.

      Everyone also seems to be looking for the one and only reason Harris lost. There isn’t one reason. I’m sure racism and misogyny are reasons, even if they’re not the only ones.

    • Blademaster00@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      He’s cultivating working class solidarity in a really powerful way, and it’s starting to appeal more and more to folks who’ve watched the Democrats pay only lip service to racial grievances, and then proceed to never make meaningful sacrifices to ameliorate the underlying problems of economic inequality and then work constructively to promote financial security.

      By doing what exactly? I’ve seen plenty of arguments like this about Dems not doing enough to seperate themselves from the status quo, and thus are losing ground to Republicans on things like the economy and fighting for the working class. I don’t disagree with that, but what arguments like that fail to convince me of is what exactly is Trump offering these Latino and Black voters that’s better?

      • Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 months ago

        “Change” and he’s further back in their memories. People are genuinely struggling - both in where they are and where they’re headed; he promises he can change that direction. He won’t, but people are desperate and Kamala ran as a status quo candidate

        It’s more than just one thing, of course. Probably some racism and sexism too

        • Fosheze@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          Exactly. Most people don’t have any idea what will fix our issues they just know that something needs to change and Trump was the only one offering that. When people told Kamala they were struggling she just responded by saying that the economy is actually doing great. Trump promised actual changes (yes they’re all for the worse but the average idiot doesn’t know that) where as Kamala repeatedly just blew people off.

    • JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 months ago

      No one wants to hear this, but it’s pretty much only educated white and black folks that believe in the social program that has been floated by the democrats the last few elections. The country is a lot more diverse than that and South Asian, East Asian and Latino folks are largely what this site would call bigots.