Well Actually, Bernie won’t win

This is what I got when I searched for “well,” actually. (Photo by abigail low on Unsplash)

I was informed by white men when I was eighteen years old that as a woman, I shouldn’t talk or think about politics. I should simply do as I was told. At the time, well, I was eighteen and I was graduating from a Jesuit high school wherein I was repeatedly told that women are stupid and emotional. So it took a little while before I deprogrammed myself and realised, that’s not only wrong but bass ackwards.

And then I got mad. And I remain mad to this day. I shall be mad most, if not all of my life because I as a woman have been robbed of my power.

Now, there are quite a few women who vote for awful men so I won’t say every woman is in my camp. But I can count quite a few. And in this case I can count the ones that really matter.

Women, particularly black women are the driving force in the Democratic Party. Black women pound the pavement, register the voters, work the volunteer stands and so on and so forth. And black women vote. When Republicans aren’t busy suppressing black women’s votes black women turn out in force. And because of this the Democratic Party has a lot of black women in leadership positions. In fact, the Democratic Party is intentionally egalitarian in who works for it. Meaning black women often are rewarded for their hard work with leadership positions.