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After Donald Trump's win, Black women are rethinking their role as America's reliable political organizers
After Donald Trump’s win, Black women are rethinking their role as America’s reliable political organizershttps://floridapolitics.com/archives/709293-after-donald-trumps-win-black-women-are-rethinking-their-role-as-americas-reliable-
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I'm one. It's time to rest. As the new party bosses focused on white working class voters and young white men emerge -
I'm going to rest, hydrate, and moisturize.
Democracy was not enough. Our values don't align. There's no place in American politics for us anymore.
America is going to have to save herself,” said LaTosha Brown, the co-founder of the national voting rights group Black Voters Matter.
She compared Black women’s presence in social justice movements as “core strategists and core organizers” to the North Star, the galaxy’s most consistent and dependable star because of its seemingly fixed position in the sky. Brown said people can rely on Black women to lead change, but the next four years will look different.
“That’s not a Herculean task that’s for us. We don’t want that title. … I have no goals to be a martyr for a nation that cares nothing about me,” she said.
She compared Black women’s presence in social justice movements as “core strategists and core organizers” to the North Star, the galaxy’s most consistent and dependable star because of its seemingly fixed position in the sky. Brown said people can rely on Black women to lead change, but the next four years will look different.
“That’s not a Herculean task that’s for us. We don’t want that title. … I have no goals to be a martyr for a nation that cares nothing about me,” she said.
Mid terms should be interesting.
Politically engaged Black women said they don’t plan to continue positioning themselves in the vertebrae of the “backbone” of America’s democracy. The growing movement prompting Black women to withdraw is a shift from history, where they are often present and at the forefront of political and social change.
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I don't blame Black Women at all for checking out. Half the country decided that an elderly grifter was better for the country than a brilliant Black Woman. 
