Marks: Why I didn’t attend the Women’s March
They and Trump no doubt will continue to have honest disagreements, but the protesters should keep their minds open to allowing their representatives to work with Trump. Everyone at the march, black, white, man, woman, all were marching to get laws changed and have black people be able to live alongside their fellow man in peace and harmony.
Signs left outside the Washington Trump Hotel the evening of January 21, 2017, were a silent reminder of a greater action that had taken place within the District earlier that day and continued on long into the night.
Peoples shares with The Root the story behind the photo and what it’s going to take for joint movements to work. We can’t afford to march (or support the march from afar or via social media) and then go home and pat ourselves on the back for a job well done. While the hats themselves are cute – hot pink with little cat ears – the sentiment behind them makes me uncomfortable. I hope so, rightly do, but I have been let down before in the past. Many millions of women voted for Donald Trump. It just means that you need to think critically about how you are acting and what you really stand for.
I am grateful that my Almonte, Perth and Ottawa friends attended the sister March in Ottawa. Police responded by arresting 90 people. Perhaps the police were kinder and gentler to us because numerous people on the Mall were white women, wearing cat-ear hats and walking next to their daughters, friends, and cousins.
“We are more harshly criticized, we are more frequently criticized, and we are more wrongly criticized at every single level”, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) told participants at the Women’s March on Washington. Call that number. If you don’t know who your congressperson is, that’s OK. I saw people waving the American flag. Illiterate women in rural Mali used corncobs to keep track of change deposited in a group collective so they could take out loans to buy a village water pump or books for a school girl.
Donald Trump is still bitter that he couldn’t get anyone near a-list status to stump for him or sing at his inaugural celebrations, whereas Hillary Clinton and indeed the marchers yesterday had a full roster of a-list celebrities, including Forbes’ highest-grossing actor of 2016 and many times over “sexiest woman alive” victor Scarlett Johansson. And when chanting died down at one point, Murphy said, “You all have no problem being loud when it’s about Trump”. How did it feel, actually being there?
“Can’t we rise above the sniping about ‘privilege, ‘ ‘white feminism, ‘ ‘intersectionality, ‘ and hierarchies of grievance in the face of Trump and the dangers he poses to the American and worldwide liberal world order and women everywhere?”
The next day, cities across the country were flooded with marchers as the Women’s March protested against the newly sworn-in president. A president that doesn’t recognize the equality of citizens-due to gender, skin color, sexual orientation, country of origin, or ability-threatens core tenets of America’s democracy itself.
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Honestly, this March encompassed so much more issues than those covered by the mainstream media. For that to happen they will need to organize around a clear agenda.
Do not assume that if women organize a march, they did not vote or it is exclusively about women’s issues.
To the non-cis gender, non-white women, I see you and I apologize.
It was a breezy early evening as I sat outside a friend’s house cutting a pineapple and waiting for NEPA to put back on the light.
Mariga, 54, from New York City, said “I am here supporting the rights of all women”. We won’t build walls, and we won’t see the worst in each other. This is simply not true.
“I planned the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington and other marches and demonstrations, so I have experience working with agencies around these types of efforts”, Ingram said. That’s what reporters want to know when they cover marches like the Women’s March. Because we are making this way out of no way. It was a repeat of history when white women chose a racist, white supremacist country over their womanhood, thus screwing black and brown women over. “Everything seems insurmountable”, welcome to the f***ing party.
It’d be wise of mainstream feminism to listen to the black woman who created feminism before it even had a name.