777jogo 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.777jogo
“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.”
Black women voters supported Ms. Harris in overwhelming numbers — upward of 90 percent cast ballots for her, according to some exit polls. And her loss, as the first Black woman presidential nominee, left supporters such as Ms. Hall feeling disillusioned. On social media, under hashtags like #blackwomenrest and #restera, some women have emphasized that after turning out strong for Ms. Harris, they feel unappreciated and defeated, and are ready to bow out of the political and culture wars, for now, to focus on their personal well-being.
“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.”
The weekend after Mr. Trump’s victory, Ms. Hall told her 4,000-plus TikTok followers that she would be taking what she calls “the great Black step back.” She won’t allow herself to feel consumed by national politics, she said, and she instead plans to focus on her mental and physical health by exercising and no longer molding herself to please others.
Although Mr. Trump’s first presidential victory in 2016 worried Ms. Hall, she thought it might have been a fluke, that some voters overlooked his dearth of experience in politics and “bought what he was selling” because he was a prominent businessman, she said. And his triumph, despite a long history of allegations of racism and sexism, was a “harsh reminder” of the role racism could play in American politics, she added.
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