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

[Afromania]

147. I'm always late to these parties..... Anyway, this is the 100% truth following the election one of

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if not the very first excuse for why we lost was the minority turn out. I'll say now what I said then in that we cannot continue to be the bulwark against the worst impulses of the majority of white folk.Rather you should take those folks to task who for voted for clearly the worst possible fucking person they could ever vote for in any election, EVER. Instead, we got think piece after think piece explaining away what the majority of white folks did by pulling the lever/pressing the button for trump. We were told how they were really well meaning and kind, salt of the earth folks, who were just full of economic anxieties. Ironically this was all said with a straight face as if living in America while black and brown is a sunny day in Bermuda.

Now after two years on of the worst administration of in the lifetime of anybody alive. These same people are getting a kick out of having installed the worst possible candidate they could onto the supreme court. They are literally out there cheering trump on while he mocks the sexual assault survivor that came forward to testify against the dude they just installed. Meanwhile the trump administration economic policies are making things more expensive for them and everybody else. Nothing is deterring these people from their support and they are further doubling down on it with the majority of white people backing politicians just as disgusting as trump; if not worse. I mean, look at Roy Moore. That guy should have been completely drubbed in that election. Instead, Jones manage to just squeak by because of a big turnout from black women. It should have not have required black women to turn out in record number to keep a KNOWN PEDOPHILE from becoming a senator.

Ijelmoa and the OP is 100% right in that liberal and progressive white women are going to need to get 'conservative' white women to come down off that wall they are sitting on with trump and the republicans. Based on just raw population numbers and voting percentages. There are more than 2 times as many white women that could potentially have vote Democratic as there are ALL black women in the entire country. Additionally there are 2.5 to 3 times as many white women who voted for trump than there are TOTAL potential black female voters. Furthermore, there are more Hispanic women in the United State than there are black women. A mind-boggling 30% of them voted for the exact same republicans they are under fire from. It's never a question of why they aren't voting for their best interests. Somehow it's never a question or major talking point for the 'vote turnout concern trolls' after the election.

In any case, black women and black folks in general, by the numbers, shouldn't have to step up, tote the load and be the bulwark for the Democratic Party in every single election. The things the republicans want to do are disastrous for us all. Perhaps not in quite equal portions, but they are disastrous enough that they shouldn't be ignored by any group(s). Everybody should go should and vote on accordingly. However, if the blue wave somehow falls through the usual suspects will line right the fuck up to whine about how black people have so much to lose why didn't they turn out to vote. Why is it so important for us to vote as a group for the Democratic party anyway? I mean we are now a minority within the minority and will probably continue to slide down the list as more folks fro other areas arrive here. Why doesn't either the majority or minority majority catch the call to step up and protect the Democratic voting block?

TLDR; The tweet is 100% correct in that people who are far more numerous than black women are going to have to step up here and make sure trump and the gop get voted out.