Thread by @tamanosou

You know how I'm always saying that Black Americans are the most loyal demographic for the Democratic Party? Well let's break that down further. This will give you a basic overview and ... yeah Black Americans voted overwhelmingly Democratic: pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016…

Here's more or less the same thing for the 2018 midterm elections. One again Black Americans voted OVERWHELMINGLY Democratic while White Americans were ... not so bright: pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018…

Now check out this: people-press.org/2018/08/09/an-…

In the previous examples it's clear that as a group Black Americans vote Democratic. But when you break it down by gender you get something kinda insane. Black men are still overwhelmingly voting Democratic but for Black women it's virtually ubiquitous.

This is not to say that no conservative Black women exist. But cocktail napkin calculation puts their number at about 435k and probably only about 151.2k or thereabouts actually cast a vote for Republicans. (I'm using VERY round numbers here so don't cite this.)

And if that seems like a lot keep in mind that the number of white women who support the GOP by the same calculation stands at a bit over 45 million with roughly 24.3 million actually casting a vote for Trump aka the guy who almost definitely raped a child.

So you may be angrily wondering where I'm going with this. Or you may just be wondering where I'm going with this. Well, I have two points.

1. White people do not own progressivism AT ALL.

2. Black women are the driving force between liberal and Democratic politics.

But the other thing I want to point out is illustrated here: pnas.org/content/116/34…

This is a study which breaks down police killings by race AND gender. And yeah, Black women have a much lower risk of being murdered by police, but the risk is still unacceptably high.

When we talk about police killings we are usually talking about terrorist police attacks on Black men. And we should be talking about that because ... police who murder people aren't just committing murder but engaging in terrorism.

The issue that I want to highlight today is that Black women are often erased in this narrative. Now yeah, not as many Black women die at the hands of police. Yay. But more Black women die than white women. And then their names fade into obscurity. #SayHerName

So let's talk about Breonna Taylor. I get mad regardless but I was especially furious about Taylor being murdered because ... it was just the pinnacle of injustice. This woman was an EMT during a pandemic. She was out there risking her life for her community.

And she was SLEEPING when police screwed up and issued a no-knock on the WRONG APARTMENT. And then they murdered her. There's some story that her partner resisted but ... why wouldn't he? And even if he did how is a sleeping EMT so threatening that you need to murder her??

Little story. One time I forgot to lock my apartment door and just sat down to clean my sword. As you do. (Not a metaphor. I have an actual sword and I was cleaning it.) Anyways, someone decided to walk into my apartment unannounced. Probably thought they were going to rob me.

Anyways, I didn't even have to get up. I just looked at them, turned the point in their direction and cocked my head a little. I may have turned someone's life around that day because they beat it out of their faster than I've seen anyone run in my life.

But with Taylor's story it occurs to me that had I been Black that story could have EASILY gone another way. I'm not entirely sure of the various state laws but if that person walking into my apartment hadn't run I would have been within my rights to at least defend myself.

And while this person just took advantage of an unlocked door police busting in on a no knock warrant are going to make a lot more noise. It doesn't really matter if they announce themselves because startled people jump.

This person who tried to walk into my apartment didn't scare me, they just pissed me off. So I didn't jump or yell at them or anything. But if they had knocked down my door I would have looked a LOT more threatening than I did once they got inside.

I really cannot have any sympathy at all for the police in this situation because no matter HOW you try to spin this bs they absolutely knew they were going to shoot and probably kill someone that day. Sorrynotsorry, but this was planned.

I don't imagine they had it out for Breonna Taylor (although, if they did they are even more scum than I imagine them to be) but they were definitely planning to kill a Black person. This was premeditated. Ask a lawyer if it's first degree murder, but they definitely planned this

But what really pisses me off is as much as we did talk about Breonna Taylor, basically nothing happened to the scum police officers who murdered her for no reason. One of them sort of got fired months after he murdered her. That's it.

We saw *some* albeit belated and not nearly enough justice for George Floyd, but we're erasing Black women like Breonna Taylor. She was an EMT. For me that's what really compounds it. This was a woman fully committed to helping others and she was murdered.

And the other thing that just really makes me livid is we're not erasing just the lives and names of Black women victimized by police; we're erasing Black women's work. You know whose blood sweat and tears created the real progressive movement? Black women's.

And yet here we are still going, "oh well I'm not sure there's any Black women qualified to be VP." I personally am all in for Kamala Harris but there's ... I think someone called it an "embarrassment of riches."

If you're still trying to yell at Black women who aren't "Diamond and Silk" or ... Candice Owens? is that that crazy girl? maybe just sit back and ask yourself truly how you think specifically you are qualified to tell a demographic that works their butts off anything at all.

Ugh. "there" sorry about that.