Black women were ready for the Kamala Harris For President campaign before it was even a thing.
Democrats always win when they vote like Black women, and now the #WinWithBlackWomen trend is no longer contained to the internet as other communities are getting into formation behind Black women in positions of political and social influence.
It's now a full-on political movement ready to elect the first Black woman President.
Aside from raising a record amount of money in a very short amount of time for the new Harris For President's coffers, Black women organized a Zoom call on Sunday, while most of us were out here still trying to process the bombshell announcement from President Joe Biden.
The numbers for the call kept growing, until it hit a whopping 44,000. Organizers had to tweet Zoom to ask for tech support to keep up with the attendees, who included journalists, civil rights and nonprofit leaders, and regular citizens.
The group-- including prominent Black leaders such as U.S. Reps. Maxine Waters, Jasmine Crockett, and Joyce Beatty--raised $1.5 on the call alone.
"As a Black woman, I’m going to join later tonight with so many Black women,” Rep. Beatty said on MSNBC on Sunday. “It will probably be some 20,000 or 30,000 women trying to get on this call because it’s personal for us and we stand with Vice President Harris.”
The FOMO was real for all other communities, who were quick to ask for guidance as to how to set up their own calls.
Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand, was one of the first to ask for a similar call for white women, who haven't always shown up for female candidates (yes, I'm downplaying their "lack of enthusiasm" for Hillary in 2016 and how they didn't show up well enough in 2020). Now a call is set up for Thursday.
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Black men have already held a call, with Black queer men and others within the LGBTQ+ community also setting up calls of their own.
Support for Kamala is also pouring in from the Latino and AANPHI communities.
This is the unity President Biden was calling for.
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