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We're about to start today's #EdEquityTalks event in a few minutes! Today's event is hosted by @VillanuevaEdgar, featuring @NickDonohueNMEF @jpalfrey and @hpennington_ with closing remarks from @vanessapdaniel! Follow this thread for live tweets of the event! #philanthropysowhite
"For Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color, white supremacy has been the preexisting condition that has exacerbated every other area of pain." @VillanuevaEdgar
.@NickDonohueNMEF and @jpalfrey both talk about the importance of recognizing white supremacy: "I didn't create white supremacy but I certainly benefit from it." -
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Today there's a lot of well-deserved anger towards white women for consistently prioritizing the protection of whiteness + heterosexual norms - coded as "safety" + "tradition" - in how we vote.
It isn't new. Re: the 53% in the 2016 election, @MsPeoples wrote: "white women are not unified in opposition to Trumpism + can’t be counted on to fight it. Instead, it’s the identity, experience + leadership of black women that we must look to." nyti.ms/2REZnuO 
This year @juliekkohler1 wrote about why white women too often align their political interests w/ white men. She named systemic evangelical Christian influences but most importantly: “white supremacy remains the prevailing force in electoral politics.” bit.ly/2zKatrt
