Brittany Packnett Cunningham

And then once again, black people have to raise their hands and say, hi, we've always been this country.

Once again, us and indigenous people have to exhaust ourselves to say, have you have you picked up a book?

If you've been following any of us for any amount of time, we told you this.

The hard thing for people to realize.

is that if we had listened to Black people in the first place, we wouldn't be here.

And this is actually what I want people to sit with.

Because a whole lot of people bought a whole lot of listen to Black women totes in 2015 and in 2020 and wore them and then didn't do it.

And I mean that very literally.

I mean, if everybody had listened to the 92% of Black women who voted for Kamala Harris, we literally wouldn't be in this situation.

And you can have critique of her.

That's fine.

We should all have critique of politicians.

But what we can't do is allow the flattening that happened across the public square that said that they were both the same continue.

Because this woman is not sending ICE to pull people out of their cars.

She's not sending a paramilitary force in the streets to kill a Veterans Affairs nurse.

She's not doing it.

Right.

So very literally, had we listened to black people and been willing to vote for the black woman instead of walking around and saying, oh, America will never elect a black woman, becoming somebody who made America elect a black woman because you voted for her and you got your neighbors to vote for her.

You got your friends to vote for her.

If you had done that, we wouldn't be here.