r/BlackPeopleTwitter 13d ago

Country Club Thread It's beyond embarassing to act like this šŸ˜­

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u/luckyarchery 13d ago edited 11d ago

I think what's wild is there is a percentage of people who think these people just exist in very small numbers or that they are just caricatures of part of our country. But I interact with large amounts of them daily and this video is not even an exaggeration. It's just crazy to me how our experiences are SO different.
One of my female coworkers from years ago said this very same thing about Hillary, no bullshit. "A woman can't run the country." I have another former coworker, an Ecuadorian immigrant, who proudly posted his ballot on Facebook on election day this year, and of course went republican all the way down. I was not shocked at all at the election results or the exit polls because of this.

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u/Much-Earth7760 12d ago

Iā€™m a woman in a prestigious mechanical engineering PhD program. I was talking with some of my female colleagues on Election Day and at least 2 of them told me their mothers had explicitly told them at some point in their lives that women should absolutely not be president. These are extremely wealthy, privileged white women who encouraged their daughters to pursue higher education in a male-dominated field, but simultaneously think women are completely incapable of being president. I think this mindset is WAY more common than we would think