Naughty Nicole: The Women's March on Washington
On Today’s episode of The World In My Eyes we will no longer ignore the blasted pink and purple e...
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January 26, 201723m 27sExplicit
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On Today’s episode of The World In My Eyes we will no longer ignore the blasted pink and purple elephant in the room that’s blaring a trumpet. That’s right Renegade Nation, we’re going to be talking today about the Women’s March on Washington.
This most recent election exposed a Grand Canyon-sized divide in the United States. We are divided by geography, by class, by education, by culture, by where we get our takeout coffee, by what cars we drive, so on and so forth. And I think marches like this pose the danger of reinforcing and perhaps even widening that divide. I know organizers keep using words like inclusive and solidarity. But I find those words very hard to square with the fact that 4 in 10 women voted for Trump, that’s 53 percent of white women. And the media often leaves the impression that Trump was elected by white man and heavily opposed by women, but it's simply not true. And there's actually a much larger divide among women than there are among other identity groups.
I am very concerned about this divide and I’ve made it a hobby, to try and understand what’s happening. How someone could look at a man like Trump and think he was completely disqualified for office. So I think it is in our best interest, given this divide, which by the way is infecting countries all over Europe as well, that we work towards creating solutions rather than saber-rattling opposition. There really are genuine disagreements. But one of the problems I think and one of the reasons we can't really have sustained discussions about this, or the courageous conversations is that it so easily sparks accusations of racism and bigotry.
When I first heard about the plans to march on Washington, I understood the need for public displays of resistance, why it’s so very important to make sure each and every voice was heard. The problem that has plagued this movement from the very beginning is that there was a serious lack of inclusiveness and the lack of organization felt more like a badly promoted concert than a movement that should be taken seriously. Then when the Maryland organizer stepped down from her role criticizing the same lack of inclusiveness and a disregard for safety and sanitation, her fears echoed my own. And as time went on, I began to see there were more cracks in the veneer. When the Huffington Post posted an article delineating the same concerns expressed by numerous groups and individuals, that’s when I started seeing this “march” as more of a PR stunt than anything of real substance.
This most recent election exposed a Grand Canyon-sized divide in the United States. We are divided by geography, by class, by education, by culture, by where we get our takeout coffee, by what cars we drive, so on and so forth. And I think marches like this pose the danger of reinforcing and perhaps even widening that divide. I know organizers keep using words like inclusive and solidarity. But I find those words very hard to square with the fact that 4 in 10 women voted for Trump, that’s 53 percent of white women. And the media often leaves the impression that Trump was elected by white man and heavily opposed by women, but it's simply not true. And there's actually a much larger divide among women than there are among other identity groups.
I am very concerned about this divide and I’ve made it a hobby, to try and understand what’s happening. How someone could look at a man like Trump and think he was completely disqualified for office. So I think it is in our best interest, given this divide, which by the way is infecting countries all over Europe as well, that we work towards creating solutions rather than saber-rattling opposition. There really are genuine disagreements. But one of the problems I think and one of the reasons we can't really have sustained discussions about this, or the courageous conversations is that it so easily sparks accusations of racism and bigotry.
When I first heard about the plans to march on Washington, I understood the need for public displays of resistance, why it’s so very important to make sure each and every voice was heard. The problem that has plagued this movement from the very beginning is that there was a serious lack of inclusiveness and the lack of organization felt more like a badly promoted concert than a movement that should be taken seriously. Then when the Maryland organizer stepped down from her role criticizing the same lack of inclusiveness and a disregard for safety and sanitation, her fears echoed my own. And as time went on, I began to see there were more cracks in the veneer. When the Huffington Post posted an article delineating the same concerns expressed by numerous groups and individuals, that’s when I started seeing this “march” as more of a PR stunt than anything of real substance.
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