Black women on social media are reeling after finding they’ve been bamboozled by all the white self-proclaimed anti-racist “cat ladies” who claimed to be giving Vice President Kamala Harris their ballot.
Voting demographics show that 53 percent of white women in the country voted for the convicted felon, rapist and alleged insurrection instigator known as Donald J. Trump to be the next president of the United States. The polls showed that 91 percent of Black women voted for Harris, according to NBC. The stark difference in voter turnout between the two groups was nothing short of disappointing.
Though, Black women showed how they really felt underneath a recent X post from MSNBC legal analyst Jill Wine-Banks who silently posted the link to the Women’s March website. No caption was needed to know the message was being sent to suggest women should band together in demonstration to protest Trump’s sexist policies. However, Black women quickly hit her with the “Mm mm, get somebody else to do it,” response.
“Need to change this to nonblackwomensmarch cause absolutely not,” wrote one X user.
“I don’t think POC & white women realize how much the results of this election has likely radicalized many black people against them to the point where we may not lift a finger in a generation to support them, theirs & their causes,” wrote another user.
“Black women aren’t rolling up their sleeves anymore. Get someone else to do it,” said another user.
This discourse didn’t just translate over the digital airwaves. Real conversations about how Black women felt about white women voters have entered the workplace and social scenes. One TikTok user, Samantha Clarke or “Ms. Cookie,” said her white co-worker came up to her asking why Black women say they’re tapping out for the next four years. In response, she said simply, Black women are tired.
“Say there’s a call to war. Black women come together as a collective and they come up with a before-battle plan, a during-battle plan and an after-battle plan. Once Black women get themselves together, they call in other communities and they discuss all three plans with them. Then, the day of war comes. Black women stand on the front line... look back and now, everybody who said they were gonna go to battle with them are gone,” she said in her TikTok video.
Clarke said while majority of the time Black women win the battle for the greater good, they come out carrying the burden of exhaustion and trauma while barely receiving their flowers for the work they’ve done.
“Black women are tired. The polling numbers showed us everything we needed to see,” said Clarke.
The consensus online is that feminism proved once again to not be for all women. Black women will always only have each other.