For Black Women, ‘America Has Revealed to Us Her True Self’

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November 7, 2024

By Erica L. Green and Maya King

Kamala Harris’s resounding defeat affirmed the worst of what many Black women believed about their country, even as some looked to the future with a wary determination.

Vice President Kamala Harris held her election-night party at Howard University, the historically Black institution in Washington she once attended. The mood quickly grew bleak as results arrived.Credit…Maansi Srivastava for The New York Times

Across the country, they led an outpouring of Democratic elation when the vice president took over the top of the presidential ticket. But underneath their hope and determination was a persistent worry: Was America ready, they asked, to elect a Black woman?

The painful answer arrived this week.

It affirmed the worst of what many Black women believed about their country: that it would rather choose a man who was convicted of 34 felonies, has spewed lies and falsehoods, disparaged women and people of color, and pledged to use the powers of the federal government to punish his political opponents than send a woman of color to the White House.

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