Wokeness may be heading for a long winter's nap, if recent New York Times and National Public Radio stories are to be believed, regarding how liberal black women are dealing with Donald Trump’s re-election (in summary: not well, especially if they work in the electorally and intellectually discredited field of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion -- DEI for short).
The November 28 NPR story by Sandhya Dirks was high on liberal self-pity: “'Tired. Damn tired.' Some Black women are processing the grief of a Kamala Harris loss.” Some of them were granted anonymity for their complaints:
There was a refrain we heard again and again from the seven Black women NPR talked with for this story.
"It is exhausting," says Venita Doggett, who lives in Memphis, Tenn., and works for a nonprofit doing education advocacy.
"We're tired. We're damn tired," another woman told us. She asked NPR not to use her name because she works in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at a public university in Minnesota, and she fears that a lot of people who work in and around DEI are being targeted right now.
This feeling of being under threat as a Black person, as a woman, and especially as a Black woman feels non-stop, she says, even before the presidential election.
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The woman from Minnesota says there's constant pressure to engage politically, an unrelenting narrative that Black women will save democracy. But she asks, who is going to save Black women?
America just isn’t living up to liberal activist expectations.
"In a world that often boxes us in and beats us down, we can't act like we're not bruised," she says. "We have to take care of ourselves. We have to tend to our wounds."
Venita Doggett blamed everyone:
"I just thought, like, you definitely hate Black women," she says, referring to the many people who voted for Trump, and against Harris. "You really hate us. Us, who essentially birthed the nation literally out of our bodies — snatched children out of our wombs to build the U.S."
“Snatching children out of our wombs” is an unfortunate description of slavery, given that Kamala Harris tried to ride the abortion rights issue to the White House.
Another woman, Bonita Buford of North Carolina, “says she also feels betrayed, especially by white women voters.” Yes, the left remains undefeated at feeling sorry for themselves. (All capital-B’s for “black” were included in the original articles.)
Also eye-roll worthy was this November 19 story by Katie Mogg, health and wellness reporter for the New York Times. Guess what? There’s more DEI jobs under threat and more silly capitalizations of the word “Black” (“white” was not capitalized): “Disillusioned by the Election, Some Black Women Are Deciding to Rest.”
Cheri Hall woke up hours before dawn the morning after Election Day and checked her phone anxiously for results. A news notification hinting that former President Donald J. Trump had defeated Vice President Kamala Harris caused her to gasp and grab her chest.
“I felt it in my entire body,” said Ms. Hall, 49, who is a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant in Washington, D.C. “I was heartbroken.”
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“Our feelings are hurt,” said Vernique Esther Ofili, 31, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist in Atlanta. “We get to decide how we respond.”
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So what does a “rest era” look like? In interviews and online, some Black women said it could mean striving for more sleep, declining extra responsibilities at work or exploring new hobbies….
In other words, push more work on everyone else while you stew about the election results? And this sounds like sneaky socialism:
The push for Black women to prioritize self-preservation has been percolating for years, said Tricia Hersey, the founder of the Nap Ministry, an organization that has promoted rest as a form of resistance against productivity-obsessed cultures….
