White Women in the 45%: the 55% Are Our Responsibility

More of us voted for pussygrabber in chief in 2020 than we did in 2016

I held out hope that a significant number of white women would break with our past and vote with Black women in 2020. The Women’s March in 2017 was the largest single day protest in US history. Women expressed their frustration with Trump online in groups like Pantsuit Nation and offline in groups like Indivisible and Swing Left. In 2018 women protested family separation and the Kavanaugh confirmation. In the midterm 2018 election, significant numbers of white women who had voted for Trump in 2016 voted for Democrats, leading to the Democrats taking back the House. Michelle Obama’s memoir Becoming inspired millions. Suburban women in Ohio self-organized to influence their peers to vote Democrat. Supermajority led women-to-women voter outreach.

This summer, in the midst of a pandemic and economic downturn that has disproportionally harmed Black and Brown people and impacted women, many white women heard George Floyd’s cry for his mama a few days after Amy Cooper called the cops on Christian Cooper in Central Park.