For My White Male Friends and Colleagues
Speaking as a Black Woman, I doubt that you can imagine the disappointment we felt over the 2024 presidential election. And now salt is being poured into our wounds as DEI initiatives are dismantled, and women's rights are under attack. Democratic senators are speaking of the "unraveling of our Democracy," while we shake our heads in disbelief. Many young Black Girls have been deeply wounded by Kamala Harris's defeat, and by the knowledge that the majority of Americans would not vote for a Black Woman. I, too, am very disheartened by the fact that Americans would not vote for a candidate as qualified as Kamala Harris simply because she is a Black Woman, and would prefer to see a convicted criminal occupy the highest office in the land. Many of you have witnessed situations where a qualified Black Woman was denied a position or promotion or salary increase, and was given no truthful explanation for the decision. Many of our Black Male colleagues simply don't have ...