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Nov 7, 2018 • 24 tweets • 14 min read
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