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Brittney Cooper

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We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

crate of glass objects that I could throw at said wall and a container of metal bats and about 20 minutes and a soundtrack of my choosing. And so I just wailed for 20 minutes. I broke shit. I threw it at the walls. I had my own contained temper tantrum.

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

crate of glass objects that I could throw at said wall and a container of metal bats and about 20 minutes and a soundtrack of my choosing. And so I just wailed for 20 minutes. I broke shit. I threw it at the walls. I had my own contained temper tantrum.

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

crate of glass objects that I could throw at said wall and a container of metal bats and about 20 minutes and a soundtrack of my choosing. And so I just wailed for 20 minutes. I broke shit. I threw it at the walls. I had my own contained temper tantrum.

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

And I know that's not what y'all expected me to say, but listen, because this is rage inducing and then you roll around and you carry it in your body and you don't have any way to get it out. And I think the thing is that we have been provoked, mistreated, and we're gonna be mistreated even more. So if there's the like, how do I not complain? What do I do with all of my frustration and my anger?

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

And I know that's not what y'all expected me to say, but listen, because this is rage inducing and then you roll around and you carry it in your body and you don't have any way to get it out. And I think the thing is that we have been provoked, mistreated, and we're gonna be mistreated even more. So if there's the like, how do I not complain? What do I do with all of my frustration and my anger?

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

And I know that's not what y'all expected me to say, but listen, because this is rage inducing and then you roll around and you carry it in your body and you don't have any way to get it out. And I think the thing is that we have been provoked, mistreated, and we're gonna be mistreated even more. So if there's the like, how do I not complain? What do I do with all of my frustration and my anger?

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

It is like, find a healthy way to actually go and take it out in a more contained space. Because what we are living through is a world where white people are, not the lovely white folks here, not that I need to say that, but the white folk in the aggregate who voted for this, are like, you know, I think, let me say it in an even more specific framework.

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

It is like, find a healthy way to actually go and take it out in a more contained space. Because what we are living through is a world where white people are, not the lovely white folks here, not that I need to say that, but the white folk in the aggregate who voted for this, are like, you know, I think, let me say it in an even more specific framework.

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

It is like, find a healthy way to actually go and take it out in a more contained space. Because what we are living through is a world where white people are, not the lovely white folks here, not that I need to say that, but the white folk in the aggregate who voted for this, are like, you know, I think, let me say it in an even more specific framework.

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

We still didn't manage in this election to like win white women over. Now the college educated white girls actually did better. And I want to acknowledge that because I think that's significant. And I'm like, okay, y'all got it. Y'all just need to organize your people a little bit more. So there's that.

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

We still didn't manage in this election to like win white women over. Now the college educated white girls actually did better. And I want to acknowledge that because I think that's significant. And I'm like, okay, y'all got it. Y'all just need to organize your people a little bit more. So there's that.

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

We still didn't manage in this election to like win white women over. Now the college educated white girls actually did better. And I want to acknowledge that because I think that's significant. And I'm like, okay, y'all got it. Y'all just need to organize your people a little bit more. So there's that.

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

But I was like, why would white women keep voting for this while they're also like bleeding out in parking lots? Like, why would they keep doing it? But I realized that some of it is because

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

But I was like, why would white women keep voting for this while they're also like bleeding out in parking lots? Like, why would they keep doing it? But I realized that some of it is because

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

But I was like, why would white women keep voting for this while they're also like bleeding out in parking lots? Like, why would they keep doing it? But I realized that some of it is because

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

Their whole view of their identity and value in a system where they don't have money or power, but they have proximity to those things, is they've got to be able to pass on a world to their sons that was like the world of their fathers and their husbands. White women have been told that to be a success as a white woman is to pass on a world where your white sons can be rich forever.

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

Their whole view of their identity and value in a system where they don't have money or power, but they have proximity to those things, is they've got to be able to pass on a world to their sons that was like the world of their fathers and their husbands. White women have been told that to be a success as a white woman is to pass on a world where your white sons can be rich forever.

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

Their whole view of their identity and value in a system where they don't have money or power, but they have proximity to those things, is they've got to be able to pass on a world to their sons that was like the world of their fathers and their husbands. White women have been told that to be a success as a white woman is to pass on a world where your white sons can be rich forever.

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

can be powerful, can be at the top of the heap, and that your daughters will have these kind of men to marry. Like, it's very heteronormative. I mean, I ain't even thinking about queer folks at all. But it is literally to secure property, money, and power for white boys and teach them how to rule the world so that then they can just continue to reproduce themselves.

We Can Do Hard Things
Post-Inauguration Family Meeting: How We Will Get Through with Brittney Cooper & Rebecca Traister

can be powerful, can be at the top of the heap, and that your daughters will have these kind of men to marry. Like, it's very heteronormative. I mean, I ain't even thinking about queer folks at all. But it is literally to secure property, money, and power for white boys and teach them how to rule the world so that then they can just continue to reproduce themselves.