Black women suffered large employment losses in 2025

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10. We are in between a rock and a hard place

As long as the black voting bloc (and more specifically, black women), is considered an automatic gimme for the mainstream Democratic party, nothing that assists black people (and more specifically, black women) is going to change. And on the other hand, the modern GOP is insane and racist, so no one on that side cares at all.

I think what it will take is a female version of Obama (and no, not Michelle), coming to prominence in the way AOC did. I genuinely thought it would be Ayanna Pressley, but she seems to have faded into the woodwork. And, unfortunately, VP Harris isn't the same sort of rhetorician that Obama was.

But I feel that only when/if we have an African-American female politician in a top role who evokes the same sense of unity and belonging that Obama did, will things materially change for black women in this country, Unfortunately, I don't think we'll see that in the lifetime of anyone currently alive.