White Women don’t care about Women of Colour.

55% of white women have voted for Trump according to the Edison Research for the National Election Pool. [Screenshot from the New York Times Election Coverage]

The exit polls show it once again; white women will vote for a Presidential candidate that doesn’t respect them.

[This article was published on Medium on November 4, 2020]

We have already been through this. In 2016, everyone talked about the matter. 53% of white women had chosen a man that openly talked about them like they were prey to be chased over one of their own. Sarah Ruiz-Grossman had proclaimed that she was done with white women, feminists got mad, everyone blamed white women. The now infamous “Karen” insult meme got out shortly after. White women were lynched on the public place, making them the target of everything that is wrong with America and Western Society.

We all thought 4 years would maybe open their eyes. Maybe once fallen from their thrones, they would realize that their vote can have a drastic impact on their lives. My fellow American sisters went through everything. From #metoo to their right to abortion, from worrying about contraception to perpetual attacks against them, those last 4 years haven’t been easy. The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ruth Bader-Ginsburg was the final nail in the coffin of years of fighting for equal rights : the right to decide for our body, the right to choose who we want to marry, the right of being a woman.

Yet, the impact of those 4 years didn’t mean a thing. White women are still voting in majority for Trump without any consideration for their sisters. At the moment this is written, Trump gained 2% more in this group compared to 2016, making white women again a dangerous group for people of colour, and even more for women of colour.

The privilege white women have is dangerous. It always has been, putting black men on the death row without any evidence or disregarding black women. The fight for equality in the feminist movement was done by white women for white women. Intersectional feminism has become a thing recently and is yet still seen as divisive instead of a given. Checking your privileges isn’t enough anymore, we need action. Action that white women aren’t taking, feeling protected by their status in Western Society, putting the emotional charge of teaching them about injustice on the shoulders of people of colour, often women of colour.

Black women and Latino women have voted massively for Clinton and Biden during the last elections and with reason. According to a study published in 2017 by the American Journal of Public Health, 27.1% of Black women and 18.1% of Hispanic Women born in the States have an abortion. It is not far-fetched to take a look at the percentage of women living in poverty in the United States having abortions (36.6%), knowing clearly well that those populations are usually living in precarious financial situations. By voting for Trump, white women are actually denying abortion rights to Women of Colour, making them turn to unsafe abortion procedure that could cause their deaths, deaths that are often passed by as a generic obituary in a local journal, deaths that they don’t care about.

White women are aware of how impactful they are. They lie to get what they want — see the Amy Cooper incident that happened this year — and put people lives in danger without caring for the consequences their actions will have. They’ve done it again, putting the lives of millions of Americans at risk, without thinking for a minute about their society, their community, their neighbours.

As I am writing this, the results haven’t come out yet, but what is sure about these elections is that white women have again abandoned people of colour and mostly, don’t care about women of colour.