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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.

Black women could see the mountaintop.

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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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The country is also filled with the 60% of black folks who didn't vote. Then for whatever idiotic reason, trump had huge gains from the Latino population compared to 2020.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Over the total Latinos who voted or the total population? I'm willing to bet that the further went up while the latter stayed about the same.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

There was a huge swing in the percentage of Latinos who chose him over Harris, com0ared to 2020. Trump went up like 17 points in the Latino vote.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Again I will say: is that because more latinos voted for trump, or less for harris (and yes those are two separate things).

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah probably. Sucks. Ugh.