"Dear white women: Black women can't save you"

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79. Actually Effie. I like your posts. You can put me on ignore, but I won't put you on ignore.

Honestly, I felt that you were right, I did not flesh that out in my post. 53% of White women voted for an asshole. Though a large amount of that 53% were republican women, there were a lot of Dems and Indies there too.

Both you and the other poster are right, for different reasons. Democrats CAN'T win without Black women, but Black women can't win without other democrats and indies, including White women.

The issue of priviledge is behind the divide. The fact is that for a Black woman to "make it" she has to work much harder than a White woman has to, though BOTH women have to work far, far harder than a White man. That is just the dynamic that is baked into our societal cake, getting rid of it will require intolerance toward sexism AND racism, teaching kids to respect people for what they do, and not downgrade them because of who they were born as - that is a hard task that people of good will need to fight and be relentless in fighting. Trump as President is a setback, but on Nov 7, if we have one or two Black governor elect in southern states, a gigantic clarion bell would have been rung and there will be no going back to the way things were.

I have crossed swords with both you and Honeycombe8 quite a bit. I find that both of you are tireless in pressing your viewpoint, in every case that I remember, I simply surrendered. Both of you made good and bad points in your posts in this thread, my suggestion was simply that both of you could have a real conversation out of the limelight. I have done that with some DU members and in all but one case, it worked out for us as we got to flesh out our feelings directly communicating with eachother.