White Moms Like Me: Loving Our Kids Means We Must Vote Biden/Harris

It’s never been easy to be a mom. In 2020, it’s downright exhausting: send our kids to school or keep them home? Covid19 has killed more than 214,000 Americans, 7.69 million+ are sick, with no end in sight.

More than a million Americans file unemployment claims every week. At a time when we most need to stay home, 30 million Americans are at risk of eviction, Florida faces record hurricanes, the West is ablaze, and tornadoes and torrential downpours strike other regions.

Unlike prior downturns, women are the hardest hit. Many of us are shouldering the burden of keeping our kids safe and learning largely alone.

We are all stressed out. Some white moms are offended by “Karen” and worried that the protests on TV threaten our way of life. Some of us don’t care what happens to others as long as we are able to renovate our homes and post cute pics of our nice vacations to Instagram. And so some white moms are planning to vote for Trump again.

I am a white mom named Karen who grew up in a nearly all white community. Most of my life, I believed what I learned in childhood: Black people are dangerous and responsible for the challenges they…