Supporters react to election results during an election night event for Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris at Howard University in Washington D.C. on November 5, 2024.
Yesterday was the day that my heart felt heavy. A day of disgust, fear, and mourning. James Baldwin's words resonated with my rage yesterday! "There are days, this is one of them, when you wonder what your role is in this country and what your future is in it. How precisely you're going to reconcile yourself to your situation here and how you are going to communicate to the vast, heedless, unthinking, cruel white majority that you are here. I'm terrified at the moral apathy--the death of the heart--which is happening in my country".
How should I reconcile? How do I reconcile to myself that over 72 million Americans voted for a 34 time convicted felon with a racist, violent, and sexist background? How do I reconcile to myself that millions of Americans voted against the freedom of all who is not white, male, cisgender, heterosexual, and able-bodied?
How does that lyric of the song go again? Land of the free and home of the brave. Except, we are neither. How can we be brave when the people in power won't utter the truth and silence truthtellers? How can we be free when America is not broken; it was made this way. A way in which white supremacy seeps through our very soil and into the air that we breathe.
Take your time to mourn! And then resist with every ounce of your being! But yesterday was an injustice.
And to all Black woman and girls around the nation: we are so very sorry. There are no words to even describe how America failed you.
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