Just hours after President Joe Biden passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, Black women organized a Zoom call in a record amount of time. Over 44,000 Black women--led by Win With Black Women founder Jotaka Eaddy--raised over a million dollars during that first call to action for Kamala.
The next morning, Moms Demand founder Shannon Watts tweeted that white women needed to follow their example with a call as well.
White women responded in overwhelming numbers, first on Twitter and then on Zoom Thursday night.
I was on that call, along with a record 160,000 other women who crashed Zoom's servers repeatedly during the nearly 3-hour event.
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The demand was so overwhelming that a YouTube simulcast was also made available for anyone who either couldn't get on the call or got booted because of too much white woman energy.
Celebrities who joined included "Friday Night Lights" star Connie Britton (who said, "We have a f*cking job to do!"); singer Pink, who called in from Stockholm at 3 am local time to pledge $50,000; writer Glennon Doyle, who gave an emotional plea to her fellow white women to "raise your shaky voices" instead of worrying about what others will think of their activism; and soccer star Megan Rapinoe, who closed out the call with a ferocious and inspiring speech.
Oh yeah, and me. And my mom, which I found out this morning via text. From Boomers to GenZ, Kamala Harris has multi-generational appeal.
At press time, our call raised over $2 million for the Harris For President campaign. Add that to the over $200 million we've raised since Sunday.
Then add that to the millions that haven't come in yet, because more calls are scheduled. WHITE MEN even have their own call set up now.
And the white women will join Win With Black Women for a unifying call to create the biggest voting coalition this country has ever seen.
Trump is terrfied toast, my fellow Americans.