Co-Director of GetEqual, Angela Peoples
Put this in a frame.
Just posted this on Facebook, so I’ll do it here too.
If I’m reading into it right, this post is pointing out an often uncomfortable truth: The people beside you now aren’t always the people beside you before. Women from all ethnicities attended Women’s Marches all over the US, and it was beautiful, inspiring, and unifying. But that picture is a reminder that unifying isn’t enough. It’s taking responsibility. It’s being accountable. What your commenters seem to be missing is that this isn’t an “All White Women” sign, or even a “Those Certain White Women” sign. It’s a reminder that people who look like you and stand with you and march by you aren’t ALWAYS for you. You’ve got to accept that. Accept, as in stand up and look them in the eye and don’t stop until they look away. Accept, as in call out and demand an account and not excuses or derailments. Accept that people that you love and people that I love voted for someone who does not have your best interests in mind and that they felt that was ok.
If the they don’t see a problem or don’t care there is a problem, that doesn’t mean you don’t hold them accountable. You demand justice of a criminal whether or not he or she cares about the crime, those involved, or those affected. Those people who voted for Trump or support his nominees, aren’t assholes, they are people who made a choice and per that choice should be charged with the collective debt of those choices.
The point of this picture isn’t for you to say it’s divisive or doesn’t do for you, it’s to get you to start a conversation women of color have been talking about all along.
Some people shout in the streets, some whisper in the home.
Open. Your. Mouth. And. Talk.
And to everyone in the comments saying “But Asians and Hispanics and black women also voted for Trump!1!” – lol
94 percent of black women voted for Clinton, as did 68 percent of Latinas. Even though some may have been self-hating and dumb enough to vote for Trump, it was nowhere near the volume of white women, because 53 percent of all white women voted for Trump. (source)
Like Samantha Bee said, white women have A LOT of karma to work off, and I say this as a CIS white woman, even though I sure as shit didn’t vote for that moldy piece of shit. But I have a responsibility, as someone with white privilege, to educate the other white women around me, because most white women are apparently SO internally-misogynist that they were willing to throw their own gender and shot at equality under the bus for someone that thinks it’s honestly okay to sexually assault them, mock them, body shame them, and tell them their 6′s or 7′s at best. This isn’t meant to just tear white women down just because, this is all a matter of fact. And it’s NOT okay.
This woman in the photo is not wrong. It’s a hard fucking pill to swallow, but she’s right.
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