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Krista Bowman's avatar

Thanks for this. I, too, am a Margaret Mead gal. I put up the same quote on the donation screen at a fundraiser for a women's health center in Alabama recently. And women *felt that* -- we don't need one million women marches (though, that's nice, too). We need a million little marches. Right to the polls.

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L'Oreal Thompson Payton's avatar

A million little marches! YES!! Yes, yes and more YES! Let's f*cking do this thing!!

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Sherisa de Groot's avatar

You know what’s so interesting? The year you enter the voting pool. I was 18, just in college and voted for Gore. I think who you start with sets the mood for future elections.

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L'Oreal Thompson Payton's avatar

Ooh, that's a really good point! Someone definitely needs to write an article about this if they haven't already. You just gave me an idea! 🤔

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Amy - The Tonic's avatar

It’s always the white uncles who are the racists 😂. Correction: they’re the only ones OPENLY racist. The white women just clutch our pearls 🙄.

LFG! Kamala is the only presidential candidate I’ve ever donated to (in 2019 and now this week). We can get there 🙌🏻

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L'Oreal Thompson Payton's avatar

I literally just laughed out loud at clutch our pearls! But YES, LGF!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Michelle Shaffer's avatar

Awesome read. Let's do this! Didn't vote for that orange clown in '16 and sure as heck won't in '24!

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L'Oreal Thompson Payton's avatar

YASSS! Let's do this!!

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MARIA  TYSOR's avatar

Thank you for speaking up. White woman here and wouldn’t dream of ever voting for “Cheeto face”..

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L'Oreal Thompson Payton's avatar

Thank YOU!! 🙌🏾

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Leilani Garrett's avatar

Tell it like it T-I-Tis is what my mama would say. YES! We need all women, brown, black, yellow, orange, green and white...to Vote. Vote for the future. Vote because you KNOW women are intuitively positioned to lead better. #facts Vote for your rights, the rights of your children and the betterment of society. LFG!

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L'Oreal Thompson Payton's avatar

YES, YES AND MORE YES!! LFG!! 🎉🎉🎉 (also, I need to know if this is pronounced tits or tee-eye-‘Tis)? 👀

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Brittany Drehobl's avatar

White woman here, fully co-signing this post, and reporting for duty! I was also devastated in 2016 and shocked as all get out that a majority of white women voted the way they (...uh, we? ugh!) did. I refuse to let it happen again. RE-FUSE. I am already in ALL my white friends' and family's business and will be working my booty off 'til November to make sure we FINALLY get the hero we deserve: Kamala 2024! Let's GO!!

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L'Oreal Thompson Payton's avatar

HELL YEA! This is the kind of allyship/co-conspiring the world needs. Let's f*cking GOOOO!!!

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